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... Schoto
Wrote "Magiae Universalis" -- an early text on the subject of acoustics
1660
Athanasius Kircher
Invented the Arca Musarithmica -- a mechanical, water-driven device to compose music based upon numeric and arithmetic-number relationships to represent the scale. ... Bach
Finished the "Well Tempered Clavier" where he introduced and proved the then novel concept of tempered tuning which since has become the basis for most Western music through the 20th century.
1700s
Mozart, CPE Bach, Hayden
All were interested in "automatic music" and wrote music for mechanical instruments. ...
1895
Percy Grainger
Proposed "Free Music" -- Eight tones with complete rhythmic freedom for each voice, notated on graph paper, and played by machines built for the purpose. ...
1905-1923
Arnold Schoenberg
Experimeted during this period with atonal music. In 1923 he began working with 12 tone music (sets, series, and rows). ...
1928
Maurice Martenot
Invented the Ondes Martenot -- a microtonal electronic instrument -- and demonstrated it in Paris. ...
1949
Werner Meyer Eppler
Wrote " Electronic Tone Generation, Electronic Music and Synthetic Speech". He was instrumental in working with Bell Labs on the development of the Vocoder -- an electronic speech synthesizer and may have been the first to utilize the term "electronic music". He would also be instrumental in starting the German electronic music center in Cologne at NWDR. ... Scaeffer was instrumental, along with Pierre Henry in starting the French Electronic music center at ORF. ...
1951
John Cage
Composed "Imaginary Landscape # 4" for 12 radios and 24 performers -- brought electronic music to the stage for live performance.
Approximate Word count = 1174
Approximate Pages = 4.7
(250 words per page double spaced)
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