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Author Patteson, Thomas, author.

Title Instruments for new music : sound, technology, and modernism / Thomas Patteson.

Publication Info. Oakland, Calif. : University of California Press, 2016.
©2016

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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Summary "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 New Music traces a diffuse network of cultural agents who shared the belief that a truly modern music could be attained only through a radical challenge to the technological foundations of the art. Centered in Germany during the 1920s and 1930s, the movement to create new instruments encompassed a broad spectrum of experiments, from the exploration of microtonal tunings and exotic tone colors to the ability to compose directly for automatic musical machines. This movement comprised composers, inventors, and visual artists, including Paul Hindemith, Ernst Toch, Jörg Mager, Friedrich Trautwein, László Moholy-Nagy, Walter Ruttmann, and Oskar Fischinger. Patteson's fascinating study combines an artifact-oriented history of new music in the early twentieth century with an astute revisiting of still-relevant debates about the relationship between technology and the arts."--Provided by publisher
Language English.
Note Print version record.
Subject 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
Indexed Term Acoustic technology
Genre/Form History
Other Form: Print version: Patteson, Thomas. Instruments for new music. Oakland, Calif. : University of California Press, 2016 9780520963122 (DLC) 2015028397
ISBN 9780520963122 (electronic bk.)
0520963121
9780520288027 (paperback ; alk. paper)
0520288025 (paperback ; alk. paper)
Standard No. GBVCP 1008666572

 
    
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