Beasts and Butterflies: Morton Subotnick's Ghost Scores

T HE music of Morton Subotnick is well known through the recordings of such synthesized works as Silver Apples of the Moon and The Wild Bull. These works have been widely discussed and written about in the journals and popular magazines. Silver Apples of the Moon (1967) and Touch (1969) captured the imagination with their fresh and lively display of ostinatos and spectrum of new and pleasing sounds. Such compositions demonstrated that electronic music in large forms could be as expressive as a symphony or