Measure : in pursuit of musical time /

Follows the fascinating story of musical timekeeping, beginning in an age before the existence of external measuring devices and continuing to the present-day use of the Smartphone app.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Moskovitz, Marc (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Martlesham : The Boydell Press, 2022.
Subjects:
Musical meter and rhythm > History.
Tempo (Music)
Metronome > History.
Metronome.
Music in art.
Musical meter and rhythm.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Hands
  • 1 Hand and heart
  • 2 Motion and rest
  • Pendulums
  • 3 A logically ordered universe
  • 4 A line, a weight and a nail
  • 5 Court and Academie
  • 6 New systems
  • 7 Curiosities and chronometers
  • 8 Revolutionary minds
  • 9 Clockwork
  • 10 Hammers, dials and barrels
  • Metronomes
  • 11 Winkel's prototype
  • 12 Maelzel's metronome
  • 13 Composers' calibrations
  • 14 An imcomparable lack of judgement
  • 15 New currents
  • 16 Metronome sense
  • Afterword: object of destruction.

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