german composer and founder of the Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) Studio in Cologne.
Written in 1957, in the serialist periodic Die Reihe,
"What is Electronic Music?"(pdf)
the paper shows the german conception of electronic music and thus is an interesting counterpoint to the french vision of music
We can also take advantage to read what was said fifty years ago.
Pythagoras and the Music of the Spheres (570-490 BC),
http://home22.inet.tele.dk/hightower/spheres.htm
"Forsake the main roads, take the paths."
Stanley Karl Lewer,
Electronic musical instruments,
Electronic Engineering,
London, 1948, 101p. : ill., tab.; 22cm
Alan Douglas,
The electronic musical instrument manual : a guide to theory and design,
Pitman,
London, 1949, VII, 142p. : ill., diagr; 22cm
Reynold Weidenaar,
Electronic music review: published quarterly,
Independent Electronic Music Center,
No.1 - No.7, 1967-1968 ,New-York, ill. ; 25cm
Reynold Weidenaar,
Magic music from the Telharmonium,
The Scarecrow Press Inc.,
metuchen, N.J., & London, 1995, 418p.,
ISBN 0-8108-2692-5
Suzan J. Douglas,
Inventing american broadcasting 1899 - 1922,
The John Hopkins University Press,
Paperback, Baltimore and London, 1987, 365p.,
ISBN 0-8018-3832-0
Wilfried Feldenkirchen,
Werner von Siemens, Inventor and international entrepreneur,
Ohio State University Press, 1994, 216p.,
ISBN 081420659X
Stevens Irwin,
Dictionary of Hammond organ stops,
Schirmer Books, Macmillan Publishers,
New-York, 1970, 175p.,
ISBN 0-02-871110-6
Note (from the back cover):
"For anyone wishing to develop a thorough working knowledge of the tonal resources of the Hammond Organ, this book contains the finest and most complete presentatoin of the Hammond Drawbar System of registration available."
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