Instruments for New Music : Sound, Technology, and Modernism /

Instruments for New Music : Sound, Technology, and Modernism /

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"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 N...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Patteson, Thomas (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, Calif. : University of California Press, 2016.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Musik
Neue Musik
Musikinstrument
Musical instruments.
Music > Philosophy and aesthetics.
Music and technology.
Mass media.
Engineering.
Electronic musical instruments.
Communication.
Civil engineering.
MUSIC > History & Criticism.
Musique > Philosophie et esthetique.
Musique et technologie > Histoire.
Instruments de musique electroniques > Histoire.
Music and technology > History.
Electronic musical instruments > History.
History.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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