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Ussachevsky, Vladimir (1911-1990)
The following sources are recommended by a librarian whose research specialty is composer Vladimir Ussachevsky.

Six Superlative Sources

· Hartsock, Ralph, and Carl Rahkonen. Vladimir Ussachevsky: A Bio-Bibliography. Greenwood Press, 2000.

· Vladimir Ussachevsky: In Celebration of His Seventy-Fifth Birthday. University of Utah, 1987.

· Luening, Otto. "Electronic Music." In The Odyssey of an American Composer: The Autobiography of Otto Luening, pp. 509-559. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1980.

· Ussachevsky, Vladimir, and Otto Luening. Electronic Tape Music, 1952: The First Compositions. Highgate Press, 1977.

· Salzman, Eric. Music of Vladimir Ussachevsky. Composers Recordings, CRI CD 813. Biography and program notes for "Linear Contrasts" (W6), "Metamorphoses" (W7), "Of Wood and Brass" (W8), "Wireless Fantasy" (W17), "Computer Piece No. 1" (W1), "Two Sketches for Computer Piece No. 2" (W15), "Three Scenes from the Creation" (W42), and "Missa Brevis" (W87).

· Shields, Alice. Pioneers of Electronic Music. Composers Recordings, CRI CD 611. Biography and program notes for "Sonic Contours" (W10), "Piece for Tape Recorder" (W9), "Computer Piece No. 1" (W1), "Two Sketches for Computer Piece No. 2" (W15), and the Luening-Ussachevsky collaboration of "Incantation for Tape Recorder" (W5).

Other Excellent Sources

· OHM -- The Early Gurus of Electronic Music: Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center. http://www.furious.com/perfect/ohm/columbiaprinceton.html

· The Columbia University Computer Music Center: History. http://www.music.columbia.edu/cmc/history/index.html

· The Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center. http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/cpemc.html

· Wuorinen, Charles, and Carl Rahkonen. "Ussachevsky, Vladimir (Alexis)." The New Grove Dictionary of Music. Stanley Sadie, ed., and John Tyrrell, executive ed. Grove, 2001.

· Wentz, Brooke. "Vladimir Ussachevsky." High Fidelity/Musical America 36 (Nov. 1986): MA24-26.

· Holmes, Thomas B. Electronic and Experimental Music. Charles Scribner, 1985.

· Cohn, Arthur. Recorded Classical Music. Schirmer, 1981.

· Ernst, David. The Evolution of Electronic Music. Schirmer, 1977.

· Russcol, Herbert. The Liberation of Sound: An Introduction to Electronic Music. Prentice Hall, 1972.

· Berger, Melvin. Masters of Modern Music. Lothrop, Lee, and Shepard, 1970.

· "Vladimir Ussachevsky." Compositores de America -- Composers of the Americas 9 (1963): 155-160.

· Ussachevsky, Vladimir. "Notes on a Piece for Tape Recorder." In The Problems of Modern Music, Paul Henry Lang, ed., pp. 64-71. Norton, 1962.

· Beckwith, John, and Udo Kasemets. The Modern Composer and His World. University of Toronto Press, 1961.

· Randolph, David. "A New Music Made with a Machine." Horizon 1, no. 3 (Jan. 1959): 50-55, 124-127.

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