Author : Rebecca Cypess
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 41,4 MB
Release : 2016-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 022631944X
'Curious and Modern Inventions' offers an insight into the motivating forces behind music, tracing it to a new conception of instruments of all sorts - whether musical, artistic, or scientific - as vehicles of discovery.
Author : Bart Hopkin
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 39,58 MB
Release : 2021-08-04
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1000360652
Sound Inventions is a collection of 34 articles taken from Experimental Musical Instruments, the seminal journal published from 1984 through 1999. In addition to the selected articles, the editors have contributed introductory essays, placing the material in cultural and temporal context, providing an overview of the field both before and after the time of original publication. The Experimental Musical Instruments journal contributed extensively to a number of sub-fields, including sound sculpture and sound art, sound design, tuning theory, musical instrument acoustics, timbre and timbral perception, musical instrument construction and materials, pedagogy, and contemporary performance and composition. This book provides a picture of this important early period, presenting a wealth of material that is as valuable and relevant today as it was when first published, making it essential reading for anyone researching, working with or studying sound.
Author : Lisa Hiton
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 34,49 MB
Release : 2016-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1502622971
Musics roots begin at the dawn of humanity, when the earliest humans used rudimentary sounds to communicate for survival. Inventions in Music: From the Monochord to MP3s traces the evolution of music through technologies that shaped the medium: the monochord, the phonograph, magnetic tape, and MP3 files. The book describes these inventions in chronological order, considers their influence on one another, and examines these innovations impact beyond music.
Author : Matthew Gelbart
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 15,46 MB
Release : 2007-10-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 1139466089
We tend to take for granted the labels we put to different forms of music. This study considers the origins and implications of the way in which we categorize music. Whereas earlier ways of classifying music were based on its different functions, for the past two hundred years we have been obsessed with creativity and musical origins, and classify music along these lines. Matthew Gelbart argues that folk music and art music became meaningful concepts only in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and only in relation to each other. He examines how cultural nationalism served as the earliest impetus in classifying music by origins, and how the notions of folk music and art music followed - in conjunction with changing conceptions of nature, and changing ideas about human creativity. Through tracing the history of these musical categories, the book confronts our assumptions about different kinds of music.
Author : Johann Sebastian Bach
Publisher : Alfred Music
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 24,11 MB
Release : 1996-02-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781457488252
The edition of Johan Sebastian Bach's fifteen 3-Part Inventions, edited by Carl Czerny, contains editorial additions, including dynamics, fingering and tempo indications.
Author : Kathy Ceceri
Publisher : Make Community, LLC
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,77 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781680452334
Explores the physics of sound through hands-on projects for making a variety of musical instruments with step-by-step, illustrated instructions, including a three-string guitar, thumb piano, and compact washtub bass.
Author : Kathy Ceceri
Publisher : Maker Media, Inc.
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 41,3 MB
Release : 2017-04-27
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1680452290
People have been playing music on homemade instruments for thousands of years. But creating new instruments is much more than an art form. When you want to make a note sound higher or lower, you have to change the sound waves coming out of the instrument. That's science! When you explore the way different materials produce different sounds, that's engineering. When you speed up or slow down a song, you're counting beats -- using math. And technology makes electronic instruments and devices to record and play back music possible.
Author : Thomas Patteson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 33,98 MB
Release : 2016
Category : 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 : Jamie James
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 10,58 MB
Release : 1995-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780387944746
For centuries, scientists and philosophers believed the universe was a stately; ordered mechanism - mathematical and musical. The smooth operation of the cosmos created a divine harmony (perfect, spiritual, eternal) which composers sought to capture and express. With The Music of the Spheres, readers will see how this scientific philosophy emerged, how it was shattered by changing views of the universe and the rise of Romanticism, and to what extent (if at all) it survives today. From Pythagoras to Newton, Bach to Beethoven, and on into the twentieth century, it is a spellbinding examination of the interwoven fates of science and music throughout history.
Author : Bill Cunliffe
Publisher : Alfred Music Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 18,90 MB
Release : 2005-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780739035382
Pianists all know the benefits of playing the "Two-Part Inventions" of J. S. Bach. Now, world-respected jazz pianist and composer Bill Cunliffe has written his own "inventions" that will benefit every player's understanding and performance of jazz. These great-sounding etudes explore the specific harmonic, melodic, and technical challenges faced by jazz keyboardists, including the ii-V and ii-V-I progressions, outlining changes, chord-tone ornamentation, playing in octaves, tonic patterns, block chords, polytonality, stride piano, and left-hand walking bass. Pieces feature chord symbols, explanatory notes, and preparatory exercises, and each invention is performed on the CD by Bill Cunliffe. 123 pages. " . . . perfect for daily warm-up, explores the harmonic and melodic intricacies of jazz, each etude targets a specific technical skill and includes performance notes, inventions gradually become more challenging and the harmonic progressions are varied and very musical . . . a musical feast." -International Association for Jazz Education (IAJE)
