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WorksheetsHistory of Electronic Music
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One of the first electronic instruments built by Thaddeus Cahill, weighing 200 tons.
Theremin
Hammond Organ
Telharmonium
Musique Concrete
What does MIDI stand for?
Multiple Instrument Digital Interface
Musical Instrument Digital Interface
Many Instruments Digital Interface
Musical Instrument Dynamic Interface
An instrument that can only play one note at a time is.
homophonic
monophonic
polyphonic
telharmonic
DAW stands for.
Digital Amplifier Workstation
Digital Audio Workaround
Digital Audio Workstation
A multi-timbral synthesizer is an instrument that allows only one sound to be played simultaneously.
True
False
A French approach to composition involving tape manipulation.
Champs-Elysees
Musique Concrete
Tour de France
Veloute de mousseron
An instrument capable of playing multiple notes simultaneously.
homophonic
monophonic
polyphonic
philharmonic
Allowed the recording of multiple parts, one at a time, while listening to previously recorded tracks.
Multi-timbral Synthesis
Multitrack Recording
Musique Concrete
Polyphonic Synthesizer
Inventor and pioneer of multitrack recording.
Gibson
Les Paul
Dizzy Gillespie
Robert Moog
Built the first solid body electric guitar in 1941.
Gibson
Les Paul
Dizzy Gillespie
Robert Moog
An electronic instrument that is controlled by moving one's hands in the air around it.
Moog Synthesizer
RCA Mark 2 Synthesizer
Theremin
Piano
Recorded by Wendy Carlos in 1968 on a Moog synthesizer.
Musique Concrete
Switched on Bach
Hey Ya
Goldberg Variations
Best known as a composer of electronic and experimental music.
Laurens Hammond
Thaddeus Cahill
Otto Luening
Wendy Carlos
Techniques include changing tape speed, direction, looping, splicing, and addition of filters and reverb.
Multi-timbral Synthesis
Multitrack Recording
Musique Concrete
Theremin
A set of standardized messages that allow different electronic music devices to communicate with one another.
Theremin
digital
MIDI
polyphonic
First reasonably priced digital synthesizer produced in 1983 and the most popular synthesizer ever made.
Yamaha DX7 Synthesizer
Telharmonium
Moog Synthesizer
RCA Mark 1/2 Synthesizer
Modular synthesizer that’s sounds were created using patch cords to connect the various modules together in different configurations to produce different sounds.
Yamaha DX7 Synthesizer
Telharmonium
Moog Synthesizer
RCA Mark 1/2 Synthesizer
The first true studio synthesizer.
Yamaha DX7 Synthesizer
Telharmonium
Moog Synthesizer
RCA Mark 1/2 Synthesizer
Instrument invented in 1935, which used mechanical means to produce music, much like the Telharmonium.
Yamaha DX7 Synthesizer
Hammond B3 Organ
Moog Synthesizer
RCA Mark 1/2 Synthesizer
One of the earliest composers / pioneers of creating purely electronic music without the use of recorded sound.
Milton Babbitt
Otto Luening
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Thaddeus Cahill
Invented the first modular analog synthesizer in the 1960s.
Milton Babbitt
Robert Moog
Wendy Carlos
Thaddeus Cahill
Invented an instrument which is played by moving one's hands in the air.
Milton Babbitt
Leon Theremin
Les Paul
Thaddeus Cahill
Invented the B3 organ.
Laurens Hammond
Thaddeus Cahill
Otto Luening
Wendy Carlos
Best known as a composer of electronic, serial, and experimental music in the 20th century.
Milton Babbitt
Leon Theremin
Les Paul
Thaddeus Cahill
Any specific sound within a synthesizer.
switch
plug
patch
jack
Capable of producing continuous electrical changes or fluctuations.
synthesizer
digital
analog
theremin
Two of the parameters controlled when playing the theremin
The most popular model of the (1970s) Hammond organ
The Yamaha DX7 Synthesizer used this type of algorithmic digital synthesis as a means of sound production.
Essentially a collection of 145 modified dynamos employing a number of specially geared shafts and associated inductors to produce alternating currents of different audio frequencies.
Hammond organ
Theremin
Moog synthesizer
Telharmonium
