Electric and electronic instruments are prevalent in popular music, but despite their existence for over 80 years, the mainstream classical world has remained firmly acoustic. Paul Ballam-Cross looks at classical works that incorporate electric instruments and suggests it’s time that a greater proportion of the classical repertoire did the same.
Across the many styles and subgenres of classical music, one element that still remains somewhat surprisingly outside of the mainstream is the use of electric or electronic instruments. While Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Steve Reich has suggested that “we’re living at a time when the worlds of concert music and popular music have resumed their normal dialogue . . . electric guitars, electric basses...
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