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
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Patteson, Thomas (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, Calif. : University of California Press, 2016.
Subjects:
Electronic musical instruments > History.
Music and technology > History.
Music > Philosophy and aesthetics.
Musical instruments.
Instruments de musique électroniques > Histoire.
Musique et technologie > Histoire.
Musique > Philosophie et esthétique.
MUSIC > History & Criticism.
Civil engineering
Communication
Electronic musical instruments
Engineering
Mass media
Music and technology
Music > Philosophy and aesthetics
Musical instruments
Musikinstrument
Neue Musik
Musik
Acoustic technology
History
Online Access:Texto completo
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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