Ambient Century
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.58 (818 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0747542139 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 509 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
With the help of electronics, new ideas and consumer music, Ambient music has established itself beyond question as "the classical music of the future.". This publication reveals the drift in 20th-century music from composers to non-musicians, from strict rules to no rules, from the single note to the sample. This drift through technology, Minimalism, the rock era and techno music is earthed by the development of ambient sound, to the author the most important breakthough of the past 100 years
"Errors In the Ambient Century" according to Derek Pierce. I bought this book having read a review in "The Wire" magazine, the review said the book was bad, but I did'nt believe it and bought it. I have since read it and can honestly say that I have never read a book with so many factual mistakes in it. As the writer of a "History of Electronic Music" for a magazine and a lecturer in Computer music I would suggest that you do not buy this book until all the errors have been corrected. A typical example, "Robert Fripp studied JG Bennett at Sherborne House, Dorset", the Sherborne House wh. A Customer said Missed opportunity!. Upon merely skimming through the index, I came upon numerous errors, as have the other reviewers. I list a couple that I spotted with ease:Incredibly, there seems to be no mention at all of Isao Tomita, at least according to the contents and index.Wendy Carlos has never owned or used a Moog System 55.Giorgio Moroder didn't use a drum machine in anger until at last 1981, when the Linn LM-1 was released. The drums and percussion on all the groundbreaking 1970's Moroder/Bellotte recordings was provided by drummer Keith Forsey or th. "An unfocused encyclopedic reference on a theme that's never defined" according to Christopher Culver. Mark Prendergast's THE AMBIENT CENTURY is an encyclopedia of the biggest names in "ambient music", a style that's never defined, but which might be a) music that the author digs, and b) music that the author doesn't like so much but which lends respectability to later figures.Prendergast starts off all the way at the beginning of 1900s with innovative classical music figures such as Debussy, Mahler, and Ravel. There is little that these figures have in common with what came later, but Prendergast seems like he has to start early
He has written about classical music and rock for newspapers, journals and magazines worldwide and authored the first definitive history of Irish rock. About the Author Mark Prendergast, born in Dublin, is the author of more than one million words on New and Electronic music. Now resident in London, his THE AMBIENT CENTURY is the culmination of two decades listening with "all gates open".
. He has written about classical music and rock for newspapers, journals and magazines worldwide and authored the first definitive history of Irish rock. Mark Prendergast, born in Dublin, is the author of more than one million words on New and Electronic music. Now resident in London, his THE AMBIENT CENTURY is the culmination of two decades listening with "all gates open"