User:Techn0logist/Sources for electronic music in the 1920s and 1930s

General:
 * "Electronic and Experimental Music: Technology, Music, and Culture" (4th Edition) by Thom Holmes
 * Some information on early experimental compositions in the text preceding and inside the "Free lines" section of "Into the Maelstrom" by Toop

Microtonal-centric:
 * Some information on microtonal use in the "Pitch and the early history of electronic music" section of "Composing Electronic Music: A New Aesthetic" by Curtis Roads

French-centric:

German-centric:
 * "Music and the Technological Imagination in the Weimar Republic" (good in general, but various great bits on the grammaphone experiments)
 * "Elektrische Klangmaschinen" covers the electronic music of the 1920s and 1930s in Germany. It appears to have a wealth of information on Mager, Trautonium, Hindemith, and so on -- but is unfortunately not in English.

Russian-centric:
 * "Microtonal Storm and Stress: Georgy Rimsky-Korsakov and Quarter-Tone Music in 1920s Soviet Russia" paints a pretty clear picture of microtonal composition in the Russian 1920s. In this period it seems their focus was on acoustic instruments, and the electrophon only gets a short mention because Jager had some correspondence with them. The scene in Russia seemed to fade out by the end of the 20s. We also learn that archives of Rimsky-Korsakov were destroyed.
 * The Early Film Music of Dmitry Shostakovich
 * "Original Documents and Reconstructions of 72 Key Works of Music, Poetry and Agitprop from the Russian Avantgardes (1908-1942)"
 * "Sound in Z: Experiments in Sound and Electronic Music in Early 20th Century Russia", by Andrey Smirnov.
 * Andrey Smirnov presentation
 * Andrey Smirnov website

Theremin-centric:
 * "Theremin: Ether Music and Espionage"

Phonograph-centric:
 * "History Overview of Turntable Experimentation" in "Hip-Hop Turntablism, Creativity and Collaboration"
 * "The Rise and Fall of Gramaphonmusik" section in "Capturing Sound: How Technology Has Changed Music"
 * "The Record Effect"

Film-centric:
 * "Antecedents" section of "Louis and Bebe Barron's Forbidden Planet: A Film Score Guide"
 * The Early Film Music of Dmitry Shostakovich
 * Sound and Music in Film and Visual Media: A Critical Overview [some very good information on drawn sound]
 * “Tones from out of Nowhere” [some very good information on drawn sound]