Spectral music, the Glossary
Spectral music uses the acoustic properties of sound – or sound spectra – as a basis for composition.[1]
Table of Contents
115 relations: Acoustics, Aesthetics, Alain Badiou, Alberto Toscano, Alexander John Ellis, Alphorn, Alvin Lucier, Amplitude modulation, Ana-Maria Avram, Anatol Vieru, Anton Webern, Arnold Schoenberg, Aurel Stroe, Éric Humbertclaude, Béla Bartók, Bucium, Cimpoi, Clarence Barlow, Claude Debussy, Claude Vivier, Combination tone, Computer music, Danielle Cohen-Levinas, Dynamics (music), E. T. A. Hoffmann, Edgard Varèse, Electronic music, Elements of music, Ensemble l'Itinéraire, Ștefan Niculescu, Fabien Lévy, Ferruccio Busoni, François Paris, Frequency modulation, Gérard Grisey, Georg Friedrich Haas, Giacinto Scelsi, Glenn Branca, Gondwana (Murail), György Ligeti, Harmonic analysis, Harmonic series (music), Harry Halbreich, Harry Partch, Henry Cowell, Henry Margenau, Hermann von Helmholtz, Horațiu Rădulescu, Hugues Dufourt, Iancu Dumitrescu, ... Expand index (65 more) »
Acoustics
Acoustics is a branch of physics that deals with the study of mechanical waves in gases, liquids, and solids including topics such as vibration, sound, ultrasound and infrasound.
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Aesthetics
Aesthetics (also spelled esthetics) is the branch of philosophy concerned with the nature of beauty and the nature of taste; and functions as the philosophy of art.
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Alain Badiou
Alain Badiou (born 17 January 1937) is a French philosopher, formerly chair of Philosophy at the École normale supérieure (ENS) and founder of the faculty of Philosophy of the Université de Paris VIII with Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault and Jean-François Lyotard.
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Alberto Toscano
Alberto Toscano (born 1 January 1977) is an Italian cultural critic, social theorist, philosopher, and translator.
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Alexander John Ellis
Alexander John Ellis (14 June 1814 – 28 October 1890) was an English mathematician, philologist and early phonetician who also influenced the field of musicology.
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Alphorn
The alphorn or alpenhorn or alpine horn is a labrophone, consisting of a straight several-meter-long wooden natural horn of conical bore, with a wooden cup-shaped mouthpiece.
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Alvin Lucier
Alvin Augustus Lucier Jr. (May 14, 1931 – December 1, 2021) was an American composer of experimental music and sound installations that explore acoustic phenomena and auditory perception.
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Amplitude modulation
Amplitude modulation (AM) is a modulation technique used in electronic communication, most commonly for transmitting messages with a radio wave.
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Ana-Maria Avram
Ana-Maria Avram (1961–2017) was a Romanian composer, pianist, conductor and musicologist.
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Anatol Vieru
Anatol Vieru (8 June 1926 – 8 October 1998) was a Romanian music theoretician, pedagogue, and composer.
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Anton Webern
Anton Webern (3 December 1883 – 15 September 1945) was an Austrian composer, conductor, and musicologist.
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Arnold Schoenberg
Arnold Schoenberg or Schönberg (13 September 187413 July 1951) was an Austrian and American composer, music theorist, teacher and writer.
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Aurel Stroe
Aurel Stroe (5 May 1932, in Bucharest – 3 October 2008, in Mannheim) was a Romanian composer, philosopher and linguist.
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Éric Humbertclaude
Éric Humbertclaude (born 5 May 1961) is a French musician, organist, contemporary composer, writer and essayist, musicologist, researcher specializing in contemporary music and pipe organ music.
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Béla Bartók
Béla Viktor János Bartók (25 March 1881 – 26 September 1945) was a Hungarian composer, pianist and ethnomusicologist.
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Bucium
The bucium (also called trâmbiţă or tulnic) is a type of alphorn from Romania and Moldova.
Cimpoi
Cimpoi is the Romanian bagpipe.
Clarence Barlow
Clarence Albertson Barlow (also Klarenz; 27 December 1945 – 29 June 2023) was a British composer of classical and electroacoustic works.
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Claude Debussy
(Achille) Claude Debussy (|group.
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Claude Vivier
Claude Vivier (baptised as Claude Roger; 14 April 19487 March 1983) was a Canadian composer, pianist, poet and ethnomusicologist of Québécois origin.
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Combination tone
A combination tone (also called resultant or subjective tone)"", Britannica.com.
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Computer music
Computer music is the application of computing technology in music composition, to help human composers create new music or to have computers independently create music, such as with algorithmic composition programs.
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Danielle Cohen-Levinas
Danielle Cohen-Levinas (born 21 April 1959 in Paris) is a French philosopher, musicologist, and a specialist of Jewish philosophy.
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Dynamics (music)
In music, the dynamics of a piece are the variation in loudness between notes or phrases.
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E. T. A. Hoffmann
Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (born Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann; 24 January 1776 – 25 June 1822) was a German Romantic author of fantasy and Gothic horror, a jurist, composer, music critic and artist.
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Edgard Varèse
Edgard Victor Achille Charles Varèse (also spelled Edgar; December 22, 1883 – November 6, 1965) was a French composer who spent the greater part of his career in the United States.
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Electronic music
Electronic music broadly is a group of music genres that employ electronic musical instruments, circuitry-based music technology and software, or general-purpose electronics (such as personal computers) in its creation.
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Elements of music
Music can be analysed by considering a variety of its elements, or parts (aspects, characteristics, features), individually or together.
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Ensemble l'Itinéraire
The Ensemble l’Itinéraire is one of the main European ensembles dedicated to the performance of contemporary music, known in particular for its performances of spectral music works.
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Ștefan Niculescu
Ștefan Niculescu (July 31, 1927 – January 22, 2008) was a Romanian composer.
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Fabien Lévy
Fabien Lévy (born 11 December 1968) is a French composer.
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Ferruccio Busoni
Ferruccio Busoni (1 April 1866 – 27 July 1924) was an Italian composer, pianist, conductor, editor, writer, and teacher.
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François Paris
François Paris (born 28 October 1961 in Valenciennes) is a French composer and professor.
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Frequency modulation
Frequency modulation (FM) is the encoding of information in a carrier wave by varying the instantaneous frequency of the wave.
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Gérard Grisey
Gérard Henri Grisey (17 June 1946 – 11 November 1998) was a twentieth-century French composer of contemporary classical music.
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Georg Friedrich Haas
Georg Friedrich Haas (born 16 August 1953) is an Austrian composer.
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Giacinto Scelsi
Giacinto Francesco Maria Scelsi (8 January 1905 – 9 August 1988, sometimes cited as 8 August 1988) was an Italian composer who also wrote surrealist poetry in French.
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Glenn Branca
Glenn Branca (October 6, 1948 – May 13, 2018) was an American avant-garde composer, guitarist, and luthier.
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Gondwana (Murail)
Gondwana (1980) is a defining musical composition of spectral musicStaines, Joes (2010).
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György Ligeti
György Sándor Ligeti (28 May 1923 – 12 June 2006) was a Hungarian-Austrian composer of contemporary classical music.
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Harmonic analysis
Harmonic analysis is a branch of mathematics concerned with investigating the connections between a function and its representation in frequency.
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Harmonic series (music)
A harmonic series (also overtone series) is the sequence of harmonics, musical tones, or pure tones whose frequency is an integer multiple of a fundamental frequency.
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Harry Halbreich
Harry Halbreich (Berlin, 9 February 1931 – Brussels, 27 June 2016) was a Belgian musicologist.
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Harry Partch
Harry Partch (June 24, 1901 – September 3, 1974) was an American composer, music theorist, and creator of unique musical instruments.
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Henry Cowell
Henry Dixon Cowell (March 11, 1897 – December 10, 1965) was an American composer, writer, pianist, publisher, teacher Marchioni, Tonimarie (2012).
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Henry Margenau
Henry Margenau (April 30, 1901 – February 8, 1997) was a German-American physicist and philosopher of science.
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Hermann von Helmholtz
Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz (31 August 1821 – 8 September 1894) was a German physicist and physician who made significant contributions in several scientific fields, particularly hydrodynamic stability.
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Horațiu Rădulescu
Horațiu Rădulescu (7 January 1942 – 25 September 2008) was a Romanian-French composer, best known for the spectral technique of composition.
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Hugues Dufourt
Hugues Dufourt is a French composer and philosopher associated with the spectral school of composition.
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Iancu Dumitrescu
Iancu Dumitrescu (born 15 July 1944) is a Romanian avant-garde composer.
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Iannis Xenakis
Giannis Klearchou Xenakis (also spelled for professional purposes as Yannis or Iannis Xenakis; Γιάννης "Ιωάννης" ΚλέαρχουΞενάκης,; 29 May 1922 – 4 February 2001) was a Romanian-born Greek-French avant-garde composer, music theorist, architect, performance director and engineer.
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In vain (Haas)
in vain is a 2000 composition for 24 instruments by Austrian composer Georg Friedrich Haas.
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Interpolation
In the mathematical field of numerical analysis, interpolation is a type of estimation, a method of constructing (finding) new data points based on the range of a discrete set of known data points.
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IRCAM
IRCAM (French: Ircam,, English: Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music) is a French institute dedicated to the research of music and sound, especially in the fields of avant garde and electro-acoustical art music.
James Tenney
James Tenney (August 10, 1934 – August 24, 2006) was an American composer and music theorist.
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Johannes Fritsch
Johannes Georg Fritsch (27 July 1941 – 29 April 2010) was a German composer.
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John Cage
John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American composer and music theorist.
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John Chowning
John M. Chowning (born August 22, 1934, in Salem, New Jersey) is an American composer, musician, discoverer, and professor best known for his work at Stanford University, the founding of CCRMA - Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics in 1975 and his development of the digital implementation of FM synthesis and the digital sound spatialization while there.
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John Luther Adams
John Luther Adams (born January 23, 1953) is an American composer whose music is inspired by nature, especially the landscapes of Alaska, where he lived from 1978 to 2014.
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John Tyrrell (musicologist)
John Tyrrell (17 August 1942 – 4 October 2018) was a British musicologist.
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Jonathan Harvey (composer)
Jonathan Dean Harvey (3 May 1939 – 4 December 2012), Faber Music was a British composer.
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Joshua Fineberg
Joshua Fineberg (born July 26, 1969) is an American composer of contemporary classical music.
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Julian Anderson
Julian Anderson (born 6 April 1967) is a British composer and teacher of composition.
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Kaija Saariaho
Kaija Anneli Saariaho (14 October 1952 – 2 June 2023) was a Finnish composer based in Paris, France.
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Karlheinz Stockhausen
Karlheinz Stockhausen (22 August 1928 – 5 December 2007) was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries.
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Kyle Gann
Kyle Eugene Gann (born November 21, 1955, in Dallas, Texas) is an American composer, professor of music, critic, analyst, and musicologist who has worked primarily in the New York City area.
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La Monte Young
La Monte Thornton Young (born October 14, 1935) is an American composer, musician, and performance artist recognized as one of the first American minimalist composers and a central figure in Fluxus and post-war avant-garde music.
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Larry Polansky
Larry Polansky (October 16, 1954 – May 9, 2024) was an American composer, guitarist, mandolinist, and academic.
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Lonely Child (Vivier)
Lonely Child is a piece for soprano and orchestra by Claude Vivier, written in 1980.
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Magnus Lindberg
Magnus Gustaf Adolf Lindberg (born 27 June 1958) is a Finnish composer and pianist.
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Maryanne Amacher
Maryanne Amacher (February 25, 1938 – October 22, 2009) was an American composer and installation artist.
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Mesías Maiguashca
Mesías Maiguashca (born 24 December 1938) is an Ecuadorian composer and an advocate of Neue Musik (New Music), especially electroacoustic music.
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Michaël Lévinas
Michaël Lévinas (born 18 April 1949) is a French composer and pianist.
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Microtone (music)
Microtonal or microtonality is the use in music of microtones—intervals smaller than a semitone, also called "microintervals".
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Minimal music
Minimal music (also called minimalism)"Minimalism in music has been defined as an aesthetic, a style, and a technique, each of which has been a suitable description of the term at certain points in the development of minimal music.
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Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco
Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco ("I Mourn the Dead, I Call the Living") for eight-track tape is a musical composition created in 1980 by Jonathan Harvey, with the assistance of Stanley Haynes and Xavier Rodet, commissioned by the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.
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Music Analysis (journal)
Music Analysis is a peer-reviewed academic journal specializing in music theory and analysis.
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Music Theory Online
Music Theory Online is a quarterly peer-reviewed open access academic journal covering music theory and analysis.
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Musical composition
Musical composition can refer to an original piece or work of music, either vocal or instrumental, the structure of a musical piece or to the process of creating or writing a new piece of music.
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Octavian Nemescu
Octavian Nemescu (29 March 1940, Paşcani – 6 November 2020, Bucuresti) was a Romanian composer of orchestral, chamber, choral, electroacoustic, multimedia, metamusic, imaginary and ritual works.
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Olivier Messiaen
Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles Messiaen (10 December 1908 – 27 April 1992) was a French composer, organist, and ornithologist.
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Orchestration
Orchestration is the study or practice of writing music for an orchestra (or, more loosely, for any musical ensemble, such as a concert band) or of adapting music composed for another medium for an orchestra.
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Partiels
Partiels is a 1975 music composition by French composer Gérard Grisey.
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Paul Hindemith
Paul Hindemith (16 November 189528 December 1963) was a German and American composer, music theorist, teacher, violist and conductor.
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Péter Eötvös
Péter Eötvös (Eötvös Péter,; 2 January 194424 March 2024) was a Hungarian composer, conductor and academic teacher.
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Per Nørgård
Per Nørgård (born 13 July 1932) is a Danish composer and music theorist.
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Perspectives of New Music
Perspectives of New Music (PNM) is a peer-reviewed academic journal specializing in music theory and analysis.
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Phenomenology (philosophy)
Phenomenology is the philosophical study of objectivity and reality (more generally) as subjectively lived and experienced.
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Philippe Hurel
Philippe Hurel is a French composer of contemporary music and the artistic director of the Ensemble Court-Circuit.
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Philippe Leroux
Philippe Leroux (born 24 September 1959) is a French composer living in Montreal, Quebec, who has been identified as "one of the most important composers in contemporary music.".
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Phill Niblock
Phillip Earl Niblock (October 2, 1933 – January 8, 2024) was an American composer, filmmaker, and videographer.
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Pierre Boulez
Pierre Louis Joseph Boulez (26 March 19255 January 2016) was a French composer, conductor and writer, and the founder of several musical institutions.
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Process music
Process music is music that arises from a process.
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Rhythm
Rhythm (from Greek ῥυθμός, rhythmos, "any regular recurring motion, symmetry") generally means a "movement marked by the regulated succession of strong and weak elements, or of opposite or different conditions".
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeast Europe.
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Sensations of Tone
On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music (German Die Lehre von den Tonempfindungen als physiologische Grundlage für die Theorie der Musik), commonly referred to as Sensations of Tone, is a foundational work on music acoustics and the perception of sound by Hermann von Helmholtz.
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Serialism
In music, serialism is a method of composition using series of pitches, rhythms, dynamics, timbres or other musical elements. Spectral music and serialism are 20th-century classical music.
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Shepard tone
A Shepard tone, named after Roger Shepard, is a sound consisting of a superposition of sine waves separated by octaves.
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Spectrogram
A spectrogram is a visual representation of the spectrum of frequencies of a signal as it varies with time.
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Spectrum (physical sciences)
In the physical sciences, the term spectrum was introduced first into optics by Isaac Newton in the 17th century, referring to the range of colors observed when white light was dispersed through a prism.
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Spectrum analyzer
A spectrum analyzer measures the magnitude of an input signal versus frequency within the full frequency range of the instrument.
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Stanley Sadie
Stanley John Sadie (30 October 1930 – 21 March 2005) was an influential and prolific British musicologist, music critic, and editor.
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Steve Lehman (musician)
Steve Lehman (born 1978) is an American composer and saxophonist in the genres of jazz and experimental music.
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Stimmung
Stimmung, for six vocalists and six microphones, is a piece by Karlheinz Stockhausen, written in 1968 and commissioned by the City of Cologne for the Collegium Vocale Köln.
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Tempo
In musical terminology, tempo (Italian for 'time'; plural 'tempos', or tempi from the Italian plural), also known as beats per minute, is the speed or pace of a given composition.
Tempo (journal)
Tempo is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that specialises in music of the 20th century and contemporary music.
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Terry Riley
Terrence Mitchell "Terry" Riley (born June 24, 1935) is an American composer and performing musician best known as a pioneer of the minimalist school of composition.
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The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians is an encyclopedic dictionary of music and musicians.
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The Village Voice
The Village Voice is an American news and culture publication based in Greenwich Village, New York City, known for being the country's first alternative newsweekly.
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The Wire (magazine)
The Wire (or simply Wire) is a British music magazine publishing out of London, which has been issued monthly in print since 1982.
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Theodore Baker
Theodore Baker (June 3, 1851"Passed Away," Musical America (Nov. 10, 1934), p. 32."Dr. Theodore Baker," Musical Courier (Nov. 3, 1934), p. 20. – October 12, 1934) available through Ancestry.com (access by subscription).
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Thierry Blondeau
Thierry Blondeau (born 1961) is a French composer.
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Timbre
In music, timbre, also known as tone color or tone quality (from psychoacoustics), is the perceived sound quality of a musical note, sound or tone.
Tristan Murail
Tristan Murail (born 11 March 1947) is a French composer associated with the "spectral" technique of composition.
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VAN Magazine
VAN is an online independent magazine devoted to classical music.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral_music
Also known as Spectral School, Spectral composition, Spectral technique, Spectralism, Spectralist, Spectralist School, Spectralist composer.
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