Instruments for New Music : Sound, Technology, and Modernism

Instruments for New Music Sound, Technology, and Modernism

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Patteson, Thomas, author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press 2015
[2015]
Subjects:
Civil engineering.
Communication.
Electronic musical instruments > History.
Engineering.
Mass media.
Music and technology > History.
Music > Philosophy and aesthetics.
Musical instruments.
MUSIC / History & Criticism.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009426989106719
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Listening to Instruments
  • 2. "The Joy of Precision": Mechanical Instruments and the Aesthetics of Automation
  • 3. "The Alchemy of Tone": Jörg Mager and Electric Music
  • 4. "Sonic Handwriting": Media Instruments and Musical Inscription
  • 5. "A New, Perfect Musical Instrument": The Trautonium and Electric Music in the 1930s
  • 6. The Expanding Instrumentarium
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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