Fundamentals of Synthesizer Programming - Appendix, A History of Electronic Music Flashcards
What did Thaddeus Cahill do?
patented the electronic musical instrument in 1897 called the Telharmonium
Who invented the Theremin and when and where?
Leon Theremin, Moscow 1920
_____ _____ invented the Hammond organ in 1935.
Laurens Hammond
What did Pierre Schaeffer do?
recorded sounds from trains and organized them into a short composition, “Railroad Study”
What term did Pierre Schaeffer coin?
musique concrete
In 1959, the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center at Columbia University housed the _____.
RCA Mark II Electronic Music Synthesizer
Who developed a digital synthesis technique called FM (frequency modulation), licensed by Yamaha in 1974?
John Chowning
Primary credit is given to _____ _____ as the inventor of the first voltage-controlled synthesizers.
Bob Moog
What two recordings popularized the sound of Moog’s large modular synthesizers in the late 1960s?
- Wendy Carlos’ Switched-on Bach, 1968
- Emerson, Lake & Palmer’s Lucky Man, 1969
The first commercially portable synthesizer was Moog’s _____ introduced in 1970.
MiniMoog
The first fully _____ _____ synthesizer was introduced in 1978 as the popular Sequential Circuits Prophet-5.
programmable polyphonic
The Yamaha DX7, in 1983, was the first commercially viable _____ synthesizer.
digital
In August of 1983 the _____ 1.0 specification was published.
MIDI
In January of 1984 Apple Computer introduced the _____ computer.
Macintosh
In 1990, a milestone development occurred when Opcode combined MIDI sequencing and _____ _____ in the same environment (software).
digital audio
