A History Of Performing Pitch
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A History Of Performing Pitch
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Author : Bruce Haynes
language : en
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Release Date : 2002-11-06
A History Of Performing Pitch written by Bruce Haynes and has been published by Scarecrow Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-11-06 with History categories.
Haynes (U. of Montreal) traces the history of musical pitch standards over the last four centuries, linking frequency values to pitch names and telling where, when, and why various pitch levels have been used. With a focus on Italy, France, Germany, the Netherlands and the Hapsburg lands, he covers the pitches of about 1,400 historical instruments and how the design and function influenced and were influenced by changes in pitch. In addition, he studies the effect of pitch differences on musical notation and choice of key. The author has also written a book on the oboe, the instrument that plays the "A" to which a symphony orchestra tunes. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
In Tune With The Times
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Author : Simon Andrew Purtell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
In Tune With The Times written by Simon Andrew Purtell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Musical pitch categories.
Tuning The Antipodes Battles For Performing Pitch In Melbourne
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Author : Simon Purtell
language : en
Publisher: Lyrebird Press Australia lyrebirdpress.music.unimelb.edu.au
Release Date : 2016-12-01
Tuning The Antipodes Battles For Performing Pitch In Melbourne written by Simon Purtell and has been published by Lyrebird Press Australia lyrebirdpress.music.unimelb.edu.au this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-01 with Music categories.
Examining the many controversies associated with pitch standards in Melbourne over more than a hundred years, Simon Purtell discovers their impact on the tuning of the city’s orchestras and organs, as well as its defence, municipal and Salvation Army bands. This fascinating history involves famous local and touring singers, conductors and organists, including Nellie Melba, Malcolm Sargent and William McKie, revealing just how complex a problem it was to ensure that Melbourne’s music-makers remained in tune. “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child has nothing on the saga of ‘Pitch, pitch, that cursed pitch’: the seemingly endless and frequently caustic attempts to establish a uniform performing pitch for music in the Antipodes. It is a typically Melburnian drama of mixed deference to Britain and stubborn upholding of local interests that the author so eloquently and patiently chronicles, and it ranges from the almost theocratic intervention of Dame Nellie Melba at the beginning of the twentieth century to the Stanthorpe Apple and Grape Harvest Festival of 1972. At the same time, it will have been a battle taking place comparably in all the major cities of the British Empire and beyond, though each with its peculiar twists and turns. What Simon Purtell has done is show us, in immaculate detail, just how pervasive and intricate, not to mention costly, this tectonic realignment of a fundamental element of musical infrastructure must have been in all places over a very long period of time” (Emeritus Professor Stephen Banfield, Centre for the History of Music in Britain, the Empire and the Commonwealth, University of Bristol).
The End Of Early Music
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Author : Bruce Haynes
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2007-07-20
The End Of Early Music written by Bruce Haynes and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-07-20 with Music categories.
Part history, part explanation of early music, this book also plays devil's advocate, criticizing current practices and urging experimentation. Haynes, a veteran of the movement, describes a vision of the future that involves improvisation, rhetorical expression, and composition.
The End Of Early Music
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Author : Bruce Haynes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
The End Of Early Music written by Bruce Haynes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Music categories.
Covering historical performance practice in its broadest sense this text identifies common performing styles, comparing and using sound recordings from the past. To help musicians distinguish between Period and Romantic styles, it engages with controversial topics in the field in defining the differences between them.
The First Fleet Piano Volume One
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Author : Geoffrey Lancaster
language : en
Publisher: ANU Press
Release Date : 2015-11-03
The First Fleet Piano Volume One written by Geoffrey Lancaster and has been published by ANU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-03 with Music categories.
During the late eighteenth century, a musical–cultural phenomenon swept the globe. The English square piano—invented in the early 1760s by an entrepreneurial German guitar maker in London—not only became an indispensable part of social life, but also inspired the creation of an expressive and scintillating repertoire. Square pianos reinforced music as life’s counterpoint, and were played by royalty, by musicians of the highest calibre and by aspiring amateurs alike. On Sunday, 13 May 1787, a square piano departed from Portsmouth on board the Sirius, the flagship of the First Fleet, bound for Botany Bay. Who made the First Fleet piano, and when was it made? Who owned it? Who played it, and who listened? What music did the instrument sound out, and within what contexts was its voice heard? What became of the First Fleet piano after its arrival on antipodean soil, and who played a part in the instrument’s subsequent history? Two extant instruments contend for the title ‘First Fleet piano’; which of these made the epic journey to Botany Bay in 1787–88? The First Fleet Piano: A Musician’s View answers these questions, and provides tantalising glimpses of social and cultural life both in Georgian England and in the early colony at Sydney Cove. The First Fleet piano is placed within the musical and social contexts for which it was created, and narratives of the individuals whose lives have been touched by the instrument are woven together into an account of the First Fleet piano’s conjunction with the forces of history. View ‘The First Fleet Piano: Volume Two Appendices’. Note: Volume 1 and 2 are sold as a set ($180 for both) and cannot be purchased separately.
The History Of Musical Pitch
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Author : Alexander John Ellis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1880
The History Of Musical Pitch written by Alexander John Ellis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1880 with Musical pitch categories.
Music And Performance In The Later Middle Ages
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Author : E. Upton
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2012-12-28
Music And Performance In The Later Middle Ages written by E. Upton and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-28 with Performing Arts categories.
This book seeks to understand the music of the later Middle Ages in a fuller perspective, moving beyond the traditional focus on the creative work of composers in isolation to consider the participation of performers and listeners in music-making.
Studies In The History Of Musical Pitch
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Author : Alexander J. Ellis
language : nl
Publisher:
Release Date : 1968
Studies In The History Of Musical Pitch written by Alexander J. Ellis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with categories.
Sound Authorities
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Author : Edward J. Gillin
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2022-02-11
Sound Authorities written by Edward J. Gillin and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-11 with Music categories.
Sound Authorities shows how experiences of music and sound played a crucial role in nineteenth-century scientific inquiry in Britain. In Sound Authorities, Edward J. Gillin focuses on hearing and aurality in Victorian Britain, claiming that the development of the natural sciences in this era cannot be understood without attending to the study of sound and music. During this time, scientific practitioners attempted to fashion themselves as authorities on sonorous phenomena, coming into conflict with traditional musical elites as well as religious bodies. Gillin pays attention to sound in both musical and nonmusical contexts, specifically the cacophony of British industrialization. Sound Authorities begins with the place of acoustics in early nineteenth-century London, examining scientific exhibitions, lectures, spectacles, workshops, laboratories, and showrooms. He goes on to explore how mathematicians mobilized sound in their understanding of natural laws and their vision of a harmonious ordered universe. In closing, Gillin delves into the era’s religious and metaphysical debates over the place of music (and humanity) in nature, the relationship between music and the divine, and the tensions between spiritualist understandings of sound and scientific ones.