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  1. A form of studio-based serial music composed
  2. entirely of electronically generated and
  3. modified tones, as opposed to concrete music,
  4. which arranges pre-recorded sounds by
  5. intuition. The term was later broadened to
  6. include pre-recorded vocal and instrumental
  7. sounds, although always implying a serial
  8. basis. Maderna, Stockhausen, and Babbit were
  9. among the pioneers of electronic music in the
  10. 1950s. After 1960, with the arrival of the
  11. purpose-built synthesizer developed by Robert
  12. Moog, Peter Zinovieff, and others, interest
  13. switched to computer-aided synthesis,
  14. culminating in the 4X system installed at
  15. IRCAM.
  16.