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electronic music
electronic music Music in which electronic methods are used to generate or modulate sounds. The first pieces produced on tape recorders were composed in the 1920s. In Paris, Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry manipulated recorded sounds, producing one of the first major works, Symphonie pour un homme seul (1950). The invention of the synthesizer inspired many composers, particularly Karlheinz Stockhausen. In the 1960s, it became possible to use computers for complex electronic sounds; Yannis Xenakis and Pierre Boulez are two of many composers to have used computers.
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