Instruments in the History of Western Music
Instruments in the History of Western Music

Author: Karl Geiringer

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2024-11

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781032895468

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Originally published in 1943 and subsequently as a revised and enlarged edition in 1978, Musical Instruments has long been held in high regard, not only for its erudition, but for its originality of approach. By relating the instruments to their time and each other, epoch by epoch, the author sheds fresh light on their evolution and enables the reader to follow their ups and downs against the changing background of taste and fashion. Each chapter is introduced with an account of the musical forms and artistic trends of the period, before considering in detail the instruments that gave them expression. The reader is carried along, from the magical-sacred beginnings of music, through the instruments of antiquity, the experiments of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, the refined instruments of the Baroque and classical periods, down to those of the Romantic age and its aftermath, including the modern era with its electronic synthesizers. The book is completed by an Appendix on the acoustics of music and amply illustrated by nearly 100 pictures and diagrams.

Orchestration
Orchestration

Author: Cecil Forsyth

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 1982-01-01

Total Pages: 594

ISBN-13: 0486243834

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"For its time the most comprehensive treatment of the subject." — New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. In what is probably the best general book on the subject, a noted English composer describes 57 orchestral instruments, tracing their origins, development, and status at the beginning of World War I.

The Diapason
The Diapason

Author: Siegfried Emanuel Gruenstein

Publisher:

Published: 1961

Total Pages: 1118

ISBN-13:

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Includes music.

Charles Dickens and Music
Charles Dickens and Music

Author: James T. Lightwood

Publisher: Ardent Media

Published: 2005-12

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13:

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First published in 1912, this was the first work to inquire into the many musical references in Dickens's works and the interesting light those references shed on ordinary musical life in the English household, the various instruments to be found there, certain songs and singers, and the place of church music in the home. Includes six valuable lists of musical references in Dickens and his times. This examination of the various musical references in Dickens' works is of the utmost importance from the historical point of view, for they reflect the general condition of ordinary musical life in England during the middle of the 19th century. This title is cited and recommended by the Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature.

Keys to Play
Keys to Play

Author: Roger Moseley

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2016-10-28

Total Pages: 468

ISBN-13: 0520291247

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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. How do keyboards make music playable? Drawing on theories of media, systems, and cultural techniques, Keys to Play spans Greek myth and contemporary Japanese digital games to chart a genealogy of musical play and its animation via improvisation, performance, and recreation. As a paradigmatic digital interface, the keyboard forms a field of play on which the book’s diverse objects of inquiry—from clavichords to PCs and eighteenth-century musical dice games to the latest rhythm-action titles—enter into analogical relations. Remapping the keyboard’s topography by way of Mozart and Super Mario, who head an expansive cast of historical and virtual actors, Keys to Play invites readers to unlock ludic dimensions of music that are at once old and new.

The Diapason
The Diapason

Author: Siegfried Emanuel Gruenstein

Publisher:

Published: 1918

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13:

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Includes music.