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Music 219/Music 220: Electronic Music

Pioneering Works of Electronic Music (Thom Holmes)

Links are provided to information from Vassar's Discover and Online Library Catalog. Information without a link is listed in the Music Library card catalog only.

Africa Bambata. Looking for the Perfect Beat.(1980) Physical recording.

Ashley, Robert. Automatic writing (1974-79) Streamed recordings

Babbitt, Milton.  Ensembles for Synthesizer (1961-63)    Physical recordings.  

Beatles.  Tomorrow never knows (1966)  Physical recording.

Behrman, David. Figure in a clearing (1977)  Physical and streamed recordings.

Behrman, David. On the other ocean. (1977) Physical and streamed recordings.

Behrman, David.  Runthrough (1967-68) Physical recording

Berio, Luciano. Chamber music (Thema-Omaggio a Joyce) (1958)    Physical and streamed recordings.

Cage, John.  Williams mix (1952) Streamed recording (NAXOS

Carlos, Wendy. Switched-on Bach (1968)  Physical recordings.

Carlos, Wendy. Sonic Seasonings (1972)  Physical recording.

El-Dabh, Halim. Leiyla and the Poet (1959)   Physical recording.   Streamed recordings (Music online listening).   Streamed recording (NAXOS)

Eno, Brian. Music for Airports (1978)  Streamed recordings.

Le Caine, Hugh. Dripsody (1955)  Physical recording

Lockwood, Annea. World Rhythms (1975) Physical and streamed recordings.

Lucier, Alvin.  I am sitting in a room (1970)  Physical and streamed recordings

Mumma, Gordon. Hornpipe (1967)  Physical recording.

Marclay, Christian.  Record without a cover (1985)  YouTube

Oliveros, Pauline.  I of IV (1966). Streamed recording.  

Reich, Steve.  Come out (1966)   Streamed recording.  

Riley, Terry.  A Rainbow in Curved Air (1969)  Physical and streamed recordings.

Schaeffer, Pierre and Pierre Henry.  Symphonie pour un homme seul (Symphony for a man alone, 1949-50)  Physical and streamed recordings.

Spiegel, Laurie.  The Expanding Universe (1975)  Physical and streamed recordings.

Stockhausen, Karlheinz.  Gesang der Junglinge (Song of the youths, 1955-56)  Physical recordings.

Stockhausen, Karlheinz.  Hymnen (Anthems, 1966-1967) Physical recording.

Subotnick, Morton.  Silver Apples of the Moon (1967)  Physical and streamed recordings.

Tudor, David. Rainforest IV (1973)  Physical and streamed recordings.

Ussachevsky, Vladimir.  Sonic Contours (1952) Physical and streamed recordings.  

Varese, Edgard.  Deserts (1954) Physical and streamed recordings.  

Varese, Edgard.  Poeme electronique (1958)  Physical recordings.

Xenakis, Iannis. Bohor (1962)  Physical recording in a DVD

Xenakis, Iannis. Orient-Occident (1960) Physical recording

List taken from: Holmes, Thom.  "Pioneering Works of Electronic Music" in Electronic and experimental music : technology, music, and culture. 3rd ed. New York: Routledge, 2008, pp. 429-432.