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| Author | : Curt Sachs |
| Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
| Total Pages | : 562 |
| Release | : 2012-09-19 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 0486171515 |
Written by a distinguished musicologist, this comprehensive history of musical instruments traces their evolution from prehistoric times in a fusion of music, anthropology, and fine arts. Includes 24 plates and 167 illustrations.
| Author | : Till Bovermann |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 406 |
| Release | : 2016-12-09 |
| Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
| ISBN | : 9811029512 |
By exploring the many different types and forms of contemporary musical instruments, this book contributes to a better understanding of the conditions of instrumentality in the 21st century. Providing insights from science, humanities and the arts, authors from a wide range of disciplines discuss the following questions: · What are the conditions under which an object is recognized as a musical instrument? · What are the actions and procedures typically associated with musical instruments? · What kind of (mental and physical) knowledge do we access in order to recognize or use something as a musical instrument? · How is this knowledge being shaped by cultural conventions and temporal conditions? · How do algorithmic processes 'change the game' of musical performance, and as a result, how do they affect notions of instrumentality? · How do we address the question of instrumental identity within an instrument's design process? · What properties can be used to differentiate successful and unsuccessful instruments? Do these properties also contribute to the instrumentality of an object in general? What does success mean within an artistic, commercial, technological, or scientific context?
| Author | : Thomas Patteson |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 251 |
| Release | : 2016 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 0520288025 |
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
| Author | : Neville H. Fletcher |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 763 |
| Release | : 2013-11-09 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0387216030 |
While the history of musical instruments is nearly as old as civilisation itself, the science of acoustics is quite recent. By understanding the physical basis of how instruments are used to make music, one hopes ultimately to be able to give physical criteria to distinguish a fine instrument from a mediocre one. At that point science may be able to come to the aid of art in improving the design and performance of musical instruments. As yet, many of the subtleties in musical sounds of which instrument makers and musicians are aware remain beyond the reach of modern acoustic measurements. This book describes the results of such acoustical investigations - fascinating intellectual and practical exercises. Addressed to readers with a reasonable grasp of physics who are not put off by a little mathematics, this book discusses most of the traditional instruments currently in use in Western music. A guide for all who have an interest in music and how it is produced, as well as serving as a comprehensive reference for those undertaking research in the field.
| Author | : Thomas D. Rossing |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 469 |
| Release | : 2010-12-15 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1441971106 |
Thomas D. Rossing String instruments are found in almost all musical cultures. Bowed string instruments form the backbone of symphony orchestras, and they are used widely as solo inst- ments and in chamber music as well. Guitars are used universally in pop music as well as in classical music. The piano is probably the most versatile of all musical inst- ments, used widely not only in ensemble with other musical instruments but also as a solo instrument and to accompany solo instruments and the human voice. In this book, various authors will discuss the science of plucked, bowed, and hammered string instruments as well as their electronic counterparts. We have tried to tell the fascinating story of scienti?c research with a minimum of mathematics to maximize the usefulness of the book to performers and instrument builders as well as to students and researchers in musical acoustics. Sometimes, however, it is dif?cult to “translate” ideas from the exact mathematical language of science into words alone, so we include some basic mathematical equations to express these ideas. It is impossible to discuss all families of string instruments. Some instruments have been researched much more than others. Hopefully, the discussions in this book will help to encourage further scienti?c research by both musicians and scientists alike. 1.1 A Brief History of the Science of String Instruments Quite a number of good histories of acoustics have been written (Lindsay 1966, 1973; Hunt 1992; Beyer 1999), and these histories include musical acoustics.
| Author | : William P. Malm |
| Publisher | : Tuttle Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 317 |
| Release | : 1990-06-15 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 1462912354 |
This interesting and authoritative book includes essential facts about the various forms of Japanese music and musical instruments and their place in the overall history of Japan. Japanese Music and Musical Instruments has three main orientations: The history of Japanese music Construction of the instruments Analysis of the music itself. The book covers in a lucidly written text and a wealth of fascinating photographs and drawings the main forms of musical expression. Many readers will find the useful hints on purchasing instruments, records, and books especially valuable, and for those who wish to pursue the matter further there is a selected bibliography and a guide to Tokyo's somewhat hidden world of Japanese music. It will be found an invaluable aid to the understanding and appreciation of an important, but little-known, and fascinating aspect of Japanese culture.
| Author | : Murray Campbell |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 532 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 9780198165040 |
A reference guide to musical instruments.
| Author | : You Nakai |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 769 |
| Release | : 2021 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 0190686766 |
David Tudor is remembered today as an extraordinary pianist of post-war avant-garde music who worked closely with composers like John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen and as a founding figure of live-electronic music. His bold reinterpretation of Cage's Variations II and his idiosyncratic performances using homemade modular instruments inspired a whole generation of musicians. But his reticence, his unorthodox approaches, and the diversity of his creative output-which began with the organ and ended with visual art-have kept Tudor a puzzle. Reminded by the Instruments sets out to solve the puzzle of David Tudor by applying Tudor's own methods for approaching the materials of others to the vast archive of materials that he himself left behind. Author You Nakai deftly patches together instruments, electronic circuits, sketches, diagrams, recordings, letters, receipts, customs declaration forms, and testimonies like modular pieces of a giant puzzle to reveal a new perspective on Tudor's creative process. Rejecting the established narrative of Tudor as a performer-turned-composer, this book presents a lively portrait of an artist whose work always merged both of these roles. In reading Tudor's electronic devices as musicological 'texts' and examining his dissection of electronic circuits, Nakai transcends discourses on sound and illuminates our understanding of the instruments behind the sounds in post-war experimental music.
| Author | : Kelly S. McClure |
| Publisher | : Concise Guides to Conducting B |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2020 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 9781433832222 |
Series foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Identifying and defining the constructs and variables to measure -- Types of instruments and their properties: Methods to measure variables and constructs -- Identifying available instruments -- Gathering and organizing information about instruments -- Permissions and feasibility -- Using the evidence to guide your instrument selection -- Following ethical principles and guidelines -- Describing instruments effectively for different audiences -- Troubleshooting -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- References -- Index -- About the author -- About the series editor.
