Although the title makes it sound like a reference book, it is so much more than that The style of writing is engaging and informative The layout is attractive, with beautiful illustrations, photos, period paintings, quotes, and interes...Loe edasi...
Drawing on interdisciplinary approaches to connect the material aspects of musical instruments with their social functions, this volume brings together leading voices from new wave of research on musical instruments at the center of cultural interac...Loe edasi...
Wonderfully engaging, expansive and ambitious, Sound Tracks tells the history of our relationship with music in sixty detective stories, each focusing on the discovery of a musical instrument - or its fragments - in archaeological digs around the wo...Loe edasi...
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. Originally publ...Loe edasi...
Electronic Music from Scratch is a complete crash course in the joys of musical circuitry. Taking inspiration from famous instruments in electronic music history, this guide shows readers how to create dozens of whimsical, unexpected, and incredibly...Loe edasi...
Helen Rees, Helen Rees, Terauchi Naoko, Tyler Yamin, Bell Yung, Jennifer C. Post, Maire-Pierre Lissoir, Insee Adler, Helen Rees
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jul-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252045929)
The musical instruments of East and Southeast Asia enjoy increasing recognition as parts of humanitys intangible cultural heritage. Helen Rees edits a collection that offers vibrant new ways to link these objects to their materials of manufacture,...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Mar-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: Indiana University Press, ISBN-13: 9780253068576)
Marguerite Long, the most important French female pianist of the 20th century, left her stamp on a whole epoch of musical life in Paris. The Pedagogical Writings of Marguerite Long presents English translations of the two major contributi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Jan-2024, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226830117)
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 music...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Jan-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226830094)
An 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...Loe edasi...
Celebrate the legendary guitars and amps of Fender®with this authoritatively written, lavishly illustrated, and officially licensed history of the company and the culture it inspired. Originating in Leo Fender’s modest ra...Loe edasi...
This volume brings together leading voices from the new wave of research on musical instruments to consider how we can connect the material aspects of instruments with their social function, approaches that have been otherwise too frequently separat...Loe edasi...
Press the buttons to hear the music in this time-traveling journey around the world, as young readers embark on a magical adventure through classical music!Covering 10 different, beloved orchestral instruments, from different pieces...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Jul-2023, Hardback, Kirjastus: Koc University Press, ISBN-13: 9786057685858)
Essays, imagery, and an illustrated dictionary for the instruments of the Byzantine era. More than one hundred color plates accompany essays on representations of musical instruments in Byzantine iconography and literature and ac...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Jun-2023, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: John Donald Short Run Press, ISBN-13: 9781910900208)
What can a bagpipe, a fiddle or a harpsichord tell us about national culture and identity? Each country has a different story to tell, and Scotland’s story has not yet been told. This book traces the cultural and social history of musical instruments...Loe edasi...
An illustrated directory of musical instruments: strings, woodwind, brass, percussion, keyboards and the voice; a comprehensive history of music-making and the orchestra...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jan-2023, Hardback, Kirjastus: White Lion Publishing, ISBN-13: 9780711281868)
From the rock and pop of Western youth culture to the haunting sounds of traditional Mongolian throat singers, all humans in all parts of the world make music. Its harmonies affect us in a deep way and its beauty is universal....Loe edasi...
