Moog synthesizer

musical instrument

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  • keyboard instruments
    • Moog synthesizer
      In keyboard instrument

      …many electronic instruments—for example, the Moog synthesizer (see photograph ) and the Ondes Martenot. In a narrower sense, such as is employed in this discussion, the term is restricted to instruments in which sound is produced from strings, whether by plucking, striking, or rubbing, or from pipes or reeds.

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  • performance of “The Well-Tempered Clavier, BWV 846–893”
    • Bach, Johann Sebastian
      In The Well-Tempered Clavier, BWV 846–893

      …having been played on a Moog synthesizer (Switched-On Bach, 1968). She made other recordings of Baroque music on synthesizer as well, adapting for one recording the name The Well-Tempered Synthesizer (1969). One also may encounter selections from the complete set transcribed for other instruments and combinations of instruments, especially for…

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  • technology
    • Moog synthesizer
      In music synthesizer

      The Moog III, developed by the American physicist Robert Moog, had two five-octave keyboards that controlled voltage changes (and thus pitch, timbre, attack, decay of tone, and other aspects of sound), allowing the composer or musician an almost infinite variety of tonal control. This type of…

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use by

    • Byrds, the
    • Carlos
      • Electronic musician Wendy Carlos
        In Wendy Carlos

        …reinterpreted them electronically on the Moog synthesizer—a modular synthesizer with a keyboard that made significant inroads into the commercial synthesizer market through Carlos’s innovative work. Her music helped introduce the synthesizer and electronic music to a mainstream audience. She was also instrumental in the development of the Moog synthesizer itself.…

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