| LC control no. | sh 85131654 |
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| Topical heading | Synthesizer (Musical instrument) |
| Variant(s) | Music synthesizer Musical synthesizer Sound synthesizer Synth (Musical instrument) Synthesiser (Musical instrument) |
| See also | Electronic musical instruments |
| Found in | New Grove dict. of mus. online (Synthesizer [synthesiser]: electronic instrument, usually incorporating a keyboard; some earlier electronic instruments that were called "synthesizer" are better classified as composition machines, as their sounds are not produced in real time) New Harvard dict. of mus.: (An instrument that produces sounds, modifies them, and in some circumstances orders them in time by purely electronic means.) Oxford companion to mus. WWW site, Jul. 1, 2011: (A term that may be used to describe any grouping of electronic devices for the purposes of sound synthesis.) Wikipedia, Jul. 1, 2011: (A synthesizer (often abbreviated "synth") is an electronic instrument capable of producing sounds by generating electrical signals of different frequencies.) Garland Encycl. of World Mus., v. 1: (Ethnomusicological recourse to sound-synthesizer technology ...) |
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