Instruments for New Music : Sound, Technology, and Modernism

Instruments for New Music Sound, Technology, and Modernism

Player pianos, radio-electric circuits, gramophone records, and optical sound film—these were the cutting-edge acoustic technologies of the early twentieth century, and for many musicians and artists of the time, these devices were also the implements of a musical revolution. Instruments for New Mus...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Patteson, Thomas, author (author)
Formato: Electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: United States : University of California Press 2016
Edición:1st ed
Materias:
Music > Philosophy and aesthetics.
Electronic musical instruments > History.
Music and technology > History.
Musical instruments.
Electronic books.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009429946606719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Listening to instruments
  • "The joy of precision" : mechanical instruments and the aesthetics of automation
  • "The alchemy of tone" : Jörg Mager and electric music
  • "Sonic handwriting" : media instruments and musical inscription
  • "A new, perfect musical instrument" : the trautonium and electric music in the 1930s
  • The expanding instrumentarium.

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