Halim El-Dabh

Halim El-Dabh at a Cleveland festival in 2009.

Halim Abdul Messieh El-Dabh (Arabic: 'حليم عبد المسيح الضبع' (Ḥalīm ʻAbd al-Masīḥ al-Ḍabʻ); March 4, 1921 – September 2, 2017) was an Egyptian-born American composer, performer, ethnomusicologist, and educator. He has a career spanning six decades. He is known as an early pioneer of electronic music,[1] for having composed in 1944 the first piece of electronic tape music.[2][3]

References

  1. Holmes, Thom. Electronic and experimental music: technology, music, and culture (2008)Taylor & Francis. p. 156. ISBN 978-0-415-95781-6. Retrieved 2011-06-04.
  2. The Wire, Volumes 275-280. The Wire (2007). p. 24. Retrieved 2011-06-05.
  3. Holmes, Thom. Electronic and experimental music: technology, music, and culture (2008)Taylor & Francis. p. 153–4 & 156–7. ISBN 978-0-415-95781-6. Retrieved 2011-06-04.

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