Back-To-School Electronic Music BOOK Sale

[Bright Boy]

Hey Gang!

Now that the summer is over and it's back to school time, 
I thought I'd tempt you to buy some books you really WANT 
instead of the books you really NEED!  

The list is quite long this time as I've been traveling
quite a bit this summer to various parts of the country....

(1)	Rock Hardware:  The Instruments, Equipment, and
	Technology of Rock/Edited By Tony Bacon
	Harmony Books, 1981, 1st Edition, Softcover, Mint

	This highly illustrated book has chapters on all
	the instruments used in rock-n-roll.  The two
	chapters of particular interest would be the 
	Keyboard section and the Synthesizer section.  
	Featured are some nice pictures of the following:
	full page color shot of Tomita in front of his 
	Moog Modular, Keith Emerson w/ Korg PS-3300/3100,
	Bob Moog with various modulars, 1st Minimoog
	prototype, Moog Source, Wasp, Brian Eno with VCS3,
	etc.

	Price = $25.00 shipped

(2)	A Concise History of Avant-Garge Music:  From
	Debussy to Boulez -- By Paul Griffiths
	Oxford Press, 1978, Softcover, 216 Pages, Mint

	Contains an above average coverage of musique
	concrete and electronic music with the major
	players (Stockhausen, Boulez, Xenakis, Cage,
	Tudor) The following is a chapter listing:

	(1) Prelude (2) The Late Romantic Period
	(3) New Harmony (4) New Rhythm, New Form
	(5) The Genius of Place (6) NeoClassicism
	(7) Serialism (8) The Modern World 
	(9) To The East (10) Serialism Continued
	(11) Electronics (12) Chance 
	(13) Theatre & Politics (14) Multiplicity

	Price = $17.00 shipped

(3)	A Guide To Electronic Music By Paul Griffiths
	Thames & Hudson, 1979, Softcover, 128 Pages,
	Mint

	This nice historical text contains the
 	following chapter outline:

	I. Introduction
		Orientation
		Retrospect
		Approach
	II. The Electronic Repertory
		Out Of The Known
		The Electronic Voice
		Out Of The Unknown
		The Instrument & Its Double
		Rock
		Electronic Instruments
		Live Electronic Ensembles
		The Music Of The World
	III. Appendices
		Recordings
		Gloassary
		Bibliography

	Price = $23.00 shipped

(4)	A Bibliography of Electronic Music
	Compiled By Lowell M. Cross
	University of Toronto Press, 1970, Hardcover
	126 Pages, MINT!

	Do you want to know if your collection of early 
	books, journals, and articles on musique concrete,
	tape music composition, electronic music, & computer
	music is complete????  Look no further....

	Price = $37.00 shipped

(5)	New Sounds: A Listener's Guide To New Music
	By John Schaefer
	Harper&Row Publishers, 1987, Softcover, 297 Pages,
	Near-Mint

	Each chapter in this book provides a detailed 
	history of a given music genre along with a
	nice discography of related works:

	(1) The Electronic Age
	(2) Electro-Acoustic: Mixing Old & New
	(3) Process Music
	(4) Meet The Minimalists
	(5) New Music From The Concert Hall
	(6) World Music
	(7) Ethnic Music: New Sounds For Western Ears
	(8) Unusual Folk Song Arrangements
	(9) ECM & Windham Hill: A Tale Of Two Labels
	(10) The Oldest & Newest Instruments
	(11) The Rock Influence(s)
	(12) Musicellaneous

	Price = $17.00 shipped

(6)	Electronic & Computer Music By Peter Manning
	Oxford Press, 1987, Paperback, 291 Pages, MINT!

	A lovely book complete with diagrams and a nice
	section of B&W photos of early modulars, composers,
	and electronic music studios.  The following is a
	chapter listing:

	(1) The Background, to 1945
	(2) Paris & Musique Concrete, 1945-1960
	(3) Cologne & Elektronische Musik, 1945-1960
	(4) Milan & Elsewhere In Europe, 1945-1960
	(5) America, 1945-1960
	(6) The Voltage Controlled Synthesizer
	(7) Works For Tape, 1960-Present
	(8) Live Electronic Music, 1960-Present
	(9) Rock & Pop Electronic Music, 1960-Present
	(10) Computer Music - The Digital Revolution

	Price = $33.00 shipped

(7)	Computer Music: Synthesis, Composition, & Performance
	By Charles Dodge & Thomas Jerse
	Schirmer Books, 1985, 1st Edition, Hardcover, Dust Jacket
	381 Pages, Mint

	This highly illustrated book contains a wealth of
	clear, informative, and useful technical knowledge
	on the following subjects:

	(1) Fundamentals Of Computer Music
	(2) The Acoustics & Psychoacoustics Of Music
	(3) Synthesis Fundamentals
	(4) Synthesis Using Distortion Techniques
	(5) Subtractive Synthesis
	(6) Speech Synthesis
	(7) Reverberation, Auditory Localization, and
	    Other Sound Processing Tehcniques
	(8) Composition With Computers
	(9) Real-Time Performance of Computer Music

	Price = $35.00 shipped

(8)	The Music Machine - Selected Readings From The
	Computer Music Journal edited By Curtis Roads
	M.I.T. Press, 1989, Large Softcover, 725 Pages, MINT

	This technically minded book contains numerous 
	chapters within the following section headings:  
	Interviews, Composition, The MIDI Interface, 
	Music Software, Synthesis & Signal Processing, 
	Signal Processing Hardware, Music & Artificial 
	Intelligence.
	
	Price = $33.00 shipped

(9)	Electronic Music: Systems, Techniques, & Controls
	By Allen Strange
	WC Brown Publishing, 1972, 1st EDITION, Softcover, 
	160 Pages, Near-Mint with a small stain on back cover

	One of the few classic texts on modular synthesis
	theory.

	Price = $60.00 shipped

As always, the above prices are in US funds and must be 
pre-paid with a US POSTAL MONEY ORDER only!  As soon as 
payment is received, an email notification will be sent and
your book(s) will be promptly & securely shipped within 
the next business day....

If you live outside the US, please contact me for additional
postage rates and alternate payment methods....

Finally, here's a list of books that I'm looking to OBTAIN 
for my personal collection.  I am open to trades or will
buy outright:

(1) 	Digital Audio Signal Processing: An Anthology
	by John Strawn

(2)	Analog Electronic Music Techniques
	by Joel Naumann & James Wagoner

Good Luck!

Cheers,

Jeff R. Dec