a| 392399785X

a| eng

4| Editor a| Braun, Hans-Joachim 9| 18138

a| I sing the body electric: Music and technology in the 20th century

a| Berlin b| Wolke Verlag c| 2000

a| 253 pages

a| Technology has always been inseparable from the development of music. But in the 20th Century a rapid acceleration took place: a new :machine music9 came into existence, electronic musical instruments were developed and composeres often turned into sound researchers. A problematic identification of technical change with musical progress became visible. :Noise9 was raised to the state of an art, and, quite often, audience and critics were shocked at this development. In pop and rock electroacustics became the essence of music-making and of musical aesthetics. Engineers with recording and reproducing equipment assumed increasing importance and the reise of studio aesthetics had a significant impact on the expectations of listeners in the concert hall. In view of all this, it seems correct to speak of a :technologization9 od musical aesthetics in the 20th Century.Geoffrey Hindley: Keyboards, Crankshafts and Communication: The Musical Mindset of Western Technology · Hugh Davies: Electronic Instruments: Classifications and Mechanisms · Tatsuya Kobayashi: :It all Began with a Broken Organ9. The Role of Yamaha in Japan's Music Development · Trevor Pinch & Frank Trocco: The Social Construction of the Sythesizer · Jürgen Hocker: My Soul is in the Machine Conlon Nancarrow Composer for Player Piano Precursor of Computer Music · Barbara Barthelmes: Music and the City · Hans-Joachim Braun: :Moving On9: Airplanes and Locomotives in 20th Century Music · Karin Bjisterveld: :A Servile Imitation9 · István Pintér: Sound Microscopy and Music in the 20th Century. A Survey with Special Reference to Hungary · Susan Schmidt-Horning: From Polka to Punk: Growth of an Idependent Recording Studio, 19341977 · Alexander B. Magoun: The Origins of the 45-rpm Record at RCA Victor, 19391948 · Andre Millard: Tape Recording and Music Making · James P. Kraft: Musicians and the Sound Revolution: Business, Labor, and Technology in America, 18901950 · Mark Katz: Aesthetics out of Exigency: Violin Vibrato and the Phonograph · Rebecca McSwain: Reversing the Reverse Salient in Electric Guitar Technology: Noise, Humbuckers and Jimi Hendrix · Helga de la Motte-Haber: Soundsampling: An Aesthetic Challenge · Martha Brech: New Technology New Artistic Genres: Changes in the Concept and Aesthetics of Music · Bernd Enders: Musical Education and the New Media: The Current Situation and Perspectives for the Future

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b| ORPH c| ORPH j| ORPH.SCI BRAU

c| 16302 d| 16302