Journal of the Viola Da Gamba Society of America
Author: Viola da Gamba Society of America
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Published: 2002
Total Pages: 124
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Author: Viola da Gamba Society of America
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Published: 2002
Total Pages: 124
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Bettina Hoffmann
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-11-11
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780367443757
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe viola da gamba was a central instrument in European music from the late fifteenth century well into the late eighteenth. Bettina Hoffmann offers an introduction to the instrument-its construction, technique and history-for the non-specialist with a wealth of original archival scholarship that experts will relish.
Author: Viola da Gamba Society of America
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Published: 1975
Total Pages: 92
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Paul Furnas
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Published: 1977
Total Pages: 700
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Deirdre Loughridge
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2023-12-15
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 0226830101
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn expansive analysis of the relationship between human and machine in music. From the mid-eighteenth century on, there was a logic at work in musical discourse and practice: human or machine. That discourse defined a boundary of absolute difference between human and machine, with a recurrent practice of parsing “human” musicality from its “merely mechanical” simulations. In Sounding Human, Deirdre Loughridge tests and traverses these boundaries, unmaking the “human or machine” logic and seeking out others, better characterized by conjunctions such as and or with. Sounding Human enters the debate on posthumanism and human-machine relationships in music, exploring how categories of human and machine have been continually renegotiated over the centuries. Loughridge expertly traces this debate from the 1737 invention of what became the first musical android to the creation of a “sound wave instrument” by a British electronic music composer in the 1960s, and the chopped and pitched vocals produced by sampling singers’ voices in modern pop music. From music-generating computer programs to older musical instruments and music notation, Sounding Human shows how machines have always actively shaped the act of music composition. In doing so, Loughridge reveals how musical artifacts have been—or can be—used to help explain and contest what it is to be human.
Author: Roland Jackson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-23
Total Pages: 542
ISBN-13: 1136767703
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPerformance practice is the study of how music was performed over the centuries, both by its originators (the composers and performers who introduced the works) and, later, by revivalists. This first of its kind Dictionary offers entries on composers, musiciansperformers, technical terms, performance centers, musical instruments, and genres, all aimed at elucidating issues in performance practice. This A-Z guide will help students, scholars, and listeners understand how musical works were originally performed and subsequently changed over the centuries. Compiled by a leading scholar in the field, this work will serve as both a point-of-entry for beginners as well as a roadmap for advanced scholarship in the field.
Author: Orlando Gibbons
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Published: 1925
Total Pages: 408
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Susan Orlando
Publisher: Presses Univ. Limoges
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9782950934253
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Nathalie Dolmetsch
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Published: 1968
Total Pages: 91
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ian Woodfield
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1988-04-21
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780521357432
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book traces the development of the viol from its late medieval Spanish origins to the sixteenth century, when it became the most widely played bowed instrument in western Europe. Ian Woodfield examines the two most important ancestors of the instrument, the Moorish rahab and the vihuela de mano. From these two instruments emerged an early form of viol, the Valencian vihuela de arco, which spread rapidly across the Mediterranean during the papacy of Rodrigo Borgia. The viol was enthusiastically accepted by the d'Este and Gonzaga families and other Italian arbiters before migrating across the Alps and into the rest of Europe. The author discusses all aspects of the viol during its Renaissance hey-day: the growing perfection of viol design at the hands of Italian craftsmen; the gradual evolution of tuning systems; the development of advanced playing techniques and the wide range of music, both solo and consort. The final chapter examines the growth of a viol playing tradition in sixteenth-century England, in particular in the London choir-schools. Dr Woodfield brings iconographic evidence and an interesting approach to this study which will be of interest to musicologists, iconographers, organologists and viol players.