Robert Moog's contribution to the music of the spheres was a practical electronic synthesizer, which he developed in the Sixties.Robert Moog's contribution to the music of the spheres was a practical electronic synthesizer synthesizer Machine that electronically generates and modifies sounds, frequently with the use of a digital computer, for use in the composition of electronic music and in live performance. , which he developed in the Sixties. We think of musical instruments as fixed quantities, which we learn to play as children, and whose repertoires sit, recorded, in orderly categories in stores. But every instrument was invented, and some have passed away. Haydn wrote trios for the baryton bar·y·ton n. A bowed string instrument of the 18th century, similar to the bass viol, but having sympathetic strings on the rear of the fingerboard. , because his patron, Prince Esterhazy, owned one. Mozart wrote several pieces using the unearthly glass armonica, developed by Benjamin Franklin. Bach's viola da gamba viola da gamba: see viol. and John Dowland's lute lute, musical instrument that has a half-pear-shaped body, a fretted neck, and a variable number of strings, which are plucked with the fingers. The long lute, with its neck much longer than its body, seems to have been older than the short lute, existing very early gave way to the cello and guitar. So far Herbie Hancock, the Beatles, and They Might Be Giants are among those inspired by the Moog synthesizer. Inventing an instrument is like inventing a color. Mr. Moog died age 71. R.I.P. |
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