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Django's Caravan: The Journey Of The Gypsy King, Patrick Ray Monson
Django's Caravan: The Journey Of The Gypsy King, Patrick Ray Monson
Music
The life and musical contribution of Django Reinhardt including musical and visual examples.
The Synthesizer: Modernist And Technological Transformations In Film Sound And Contemporary Music, Dusin J. Green
The Synthesizer: Modernist And Technological Transformations In Film Sound And Contemporary Music, Dusin J. Green
CMC Senior Theses
The invention of the synthesizer meant the possibility of achieving virtually any sound in one mechanism, a superbly convenient device for musical creativity. Perhaps the perfect space for this approval of sound creativity was in the modern electronic film score. The synthesizer also flourished in popular music immediately following its emergence, but a common form began to solidify itself among synthesizer music. Shortly after, improvements in electronic instrument technology led to the democratization of electronic music and equipment, ultimately leading to electronic music as the new mainstream.