New York: Springer, 2016. — 406 p. 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...
S.l., 2004. – 160 p. Development of electronic musical instruments from 1870 to 1990. Electronic musical instruments are defined as instruments that synthesise sounds from an electronic source. This definition leaves out a whole section of hybrid electronic instruments developed at the end of the last century that used electronics to manipulate or amplify sounds and tape...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. — 326 p. Percussion music is both the oldest and most recent of musical genres and exists in diverse forms throughout the world. This Companion explores percussion and rhythm from the perspectives of performers, composers, conductors, instrument builders, scholars, and cognitive scientists. Topics covered include percussion in...
Scarecrow Press, 2007. — 280 p. — ISBN13: 978-0810856578. Origins and Development of Musical Instruments describes the creation, use, and development of musical instruments from the Old Stone Age to the present day. Musical instruments, from the simplest whistles to the most complex organs, conch trumpets to sousaphones, archers' and musical bows to violins and pianos, the most...
Scarecrow Press, 2007. — 280 p. — ISBN13: 978-0810856578. Origins and Development of Musical Instruments describes the creation, use, and development of musical instruments from the Old Stone Age to the present day. Musical instruments, from the simplest whistles to the most complex organs, conch trumpets to sousaphones, archers' and musical bows to violins and pianos, the most...
Scarecrow Press, 2007. — 280 p. — ISBN13: 978-0810856578. Origins and Development of Musical Instruments describes the creation, use, and development of musical instruments from the Old Stone Age to the present day. Musical instruments, from the simplest whistles to the most complex organs, conch trumpets to sousaphones, archers' and musical bows to violins and pianos, the most...
Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2015. — 252 p. 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...
Milano: Mondadori, 1985. — 631 pagine. con 167 disegni e 24 tavole nel testo. Un classico della musicologia, scritto nel 1940 da uno dei maggiori studiosi del Novecento, Curt Sachs, e aggiornato fino alle più recenti tendenze della popular music (jazz, rock e pop), della musica elettronica ed elettroacustica, dell'informatica applicata alla musica, della nuova estetica...
Oxford University Press 2002. — 392 p. Because it has always represented a rich collaboration of the music, art, architecture, handicraft and science of its day, the organ, more than any other instrument, continues to reflect the spirit of the age in which it was built. The Organ as a Mirror of its Time, the first book to consider this instrument's historical and cultural...
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