Graduation Year
Spring 2013
Document Type
Open Access Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Intercollegiate Media Studies
Reader 1
James Morrison
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Abstract
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.
Recommended Citation
Green, Dusin J., "The Synthesizer: Modernist and Technological Transformations in Film Sound and Contemporary Music" (2013). CMC Senior Theses. 700.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/700
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