• Switched-On Bach is the debut album by American composer Wendy Carlos, originally released in October 1968 by Columbia Records. Produced by Carlos and...
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  • Switched-On Bach II is a musical album by Wendy Carlos in 1973 on Columbia Records and produced by Carlos and Rachel Elkind and is a sequel to the 1968...
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  • instrument. Carlos came to prominence with Switched-On Bach (1968), an album of music by Johann Sebastian Bach performed on a Moog synthesizer, which helped popularize...
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    Moog synthesizer was brought to the mainstream by Switched-On Bach (1968), a bestselling album of Bach compositions arranged for Moog synthesizer by Wendy...
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  • classical music which also included Switched-On Bach (1968), The Well-Tempered Synthesizer (1969), and Switched-On Bach II (1974). It was the first album...
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  • tribute to Switched-On Bach and other similar titles from the late 1960s to 1970s that feature Moog synthesizers as the primary instrument. Switched On was later...
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  • Walter Carlos, in November 1969 on Columbia Masterworks Records. Following the success of her previous album, Switched-On Bach (1968), Carlos proceeded to...
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    Singers on their album Jazz Sebastian Bach and electronic performances such as Wendy Carlos' Switched-On Bach and The Well-Tempered Synthesizer. Bach's music...
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  • up Switched-On Bach with The Well-Tempered Synthesizer in the classical music category. Popular albums such as Switched On Bacharach, Switched-On Country...
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  • the work of Wendy Carlos, most notably the bestselling 1968 album Switched-On Bach. Elkind grew up in San Francisco. She moved to New York City hoping...
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  • Look up switched on in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Switched-On may refer to: Switched-On Bach, a 1968 electronic and baroque album by Wendy Carlos...
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  • Instrumental Soloist or Soloists (with or without orchestra) Wendy Carlos for Switched-On Bach Best Chamber Music Performance The Chicago Brass Ensemble, Cleveland...
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    Synthesizer (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
    but with little perceived commercial potential. Switched-On Bach (1968), a bestselling album of Bach compositions arranged for synthesizer by Wendy Carlos...
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    synthesizer was brought to the mainstream in 1968 by Switched-On Bach, a bestselling album of Bach compositions arranged for Moog synthesizer by American...
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    concertos for harpsichord (or organ), strings and continuo by Johann Sebastian Bach. There are seven complete concertos for a single harpsichord (BWV 1052–1058)...
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  • (though there were many all-synthesizer LPs before this, including Switched-On Bach by Wendy Carlos, in 1968), but in fact it also features drums, vocals...
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    of both the book and podcast is a play on the debut album by the American composer Wendy Carlos Switched-On Bach. In an interview with The Wall Street...
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  • incorporate the Moog synthesizer, prior to the successful 1968 release, Switched-On Bach by Wendy Carlos. Gershon Kingsley was a German-American Vanguard Records...
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    Concertos (BWV 1046–1051) by Johann Sebastian Bach are a collection of six instrumental works presented by Bach to Christian Ludwig, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt...
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    album Switched-On Bach selling over a million copies and winning three Grammy Awards. The success of that album prompted a brief fad of 'Switched-On' music...
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  • Carlos. It was Wendy Carlos' Switched-On Bach records that inspired him to study and create the synth sounds that he later used on his hit records in the 1980s...
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  • synthesizers, and with arrangements somewhat inspired by Wendy Carlos's Switched-On Bach (1968). Although it was highly praised by some critics and musicians...
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  • Yankovic and composer and keyboardist Wendy Carlos, released in October 1988 on CBS Records. It features a comical adaptation of the orchestral works Peter...
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    electronic musician Wendy Carlos, who is best known for her album Switched-On Bach and for the soundtracks to many films, including the Stanley Kubrick-directed...
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    Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 (category Fugues by Johann Sebastian Bach)
    organ by, according to the oldest sources, German composer Johann Sebastian Bach and is one of the most widely recognisable works in the organ repertoire...
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    Johann Sebastian Bach for viola da gamba and harpsichord. They probably date from the late 1730s and early 1740s. Although the dating of Bach's three sonatas...
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  • Switched-On Bach sold over a million copies. He described Marks' effort as an "abysmal record" and criticised Columbia for undervaluing Switched-On Bach...
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  • Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (category Arrangements of compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach)
    transcriptions, such as for the classical guitar and, in Wendy Carlos' album Switched-On Bach, on the Moog synthesizer. According to The New Oxford Companion to Music...
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  • works by Bach on the Moog Synthesizer on several albums including Switched-On Bach issued by Columbia Masterworks. Luciano Berio arranged Bach's Contrapunktus...
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  • Columbia Masterworks Records (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
    electronic-music album Switched-On Bach, containing transcriptions of a number of Bach's most famous compositions for the Moog synthesizer, was issued on Columbia Masterworks...
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