Instruments for new music
Subtitle: sound, technology, and modernism
By: Thomas Patteson
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780520288027
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Music and technology; History and criticism; Philosophy and aesthetics; Musical instrument makers; Mechanical musical instruments; Musical instruments; Music; Avant-garde (Music); Electronic musical instruments; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-228) and index.
Table of contents: title: Listening to instruments; title: "The joy of precision" : mechanical instruments and the aesthetics of automation; title: "The alchemy of tone" : Jörg Mager and electric music; title: "Sonic handwriting" : media instruments and musical inscription; title: "A new, perfect musical instrument" : the trautonium and electric music in the 1930s; title: The expanding instrumentarium.