Peter Manning first established an international reputation with his book Electronic and Computer Music, originally published by Oxford University Press in 1985 and now in its fourth edition (Manning 2004). The book presents a detailed account of the technical and creative evolution of electronic music from its earliest days. Starting from Thaddeus Cahill’s 1897 patent application for the Dynamophone, it traces developments in North America and Europe and discusses a range of analogue techniques including tape manipulation and voltage-controlled synthesisers. Later chapters consider the digital revolution that followed, including developments in MIDI and digital workstations. In later editions, the sections on computer music were significantly revised and expanded to reflect the major and rapid transformation of the field. A distinctive feature of the book is the way it combines detailed historical information and thorough explanations of technical developments, often clarified by use of explanatory diagrams, with insightful accounts of the musical repertoire produced using this technology. The book was derived from Peter’s PhD thesis at Durham University in which he surveyed and analysed numerous contemporaneous texts documenting developments in minute detail.

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彼得·曼宁 1948–2022

彼得曼宁首先凭借他的书建立了国际声誉电子和电脑音乐, 最初由牛津大学出版社于 1985 年出版，现在是第四版 (Manning 2004)。这本书详细介绍了电子音乐从早期开始的技术和创意演变。从 Thaddeus Cahill 1897 年的 Dynamophone 专利申请开始，它追溯了北美和欧洲的发展，并讨论了一系列模拟技术，包括磁带操作和电压控制合成器。后面的章节考虑了随之而来的数字革命，包括 MIDI 和数字工作站的发展。在后来的版本中，对计算机音乐的部分进行了重大修改和扩展，以反映该领域的重大和快速转变。这本书的一个显着特点是它结合了详细的历史信息和对技术发展的透彻解释，通常通过使用解释性图表来阐明，并对使用该技术产生的音乐曲目进行了深刻的描述。这本书源自彼得在达勒姆大学的博士论文，他在论文中调查和分析了许多同时期的大量详细记录发展的文本。