Author: Edward Salisbury DanaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crystallography
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
A Text-book of Mineralogy
Author: Edward Salisbury DanaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crystallography
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Tuning the Antipodes: Battles for performing pitch in Melbourne
Author: Simon PurtellPublisher: Lyrebird Press Australia lyrebirdpress.music.unimelb.edu.au
ISBN: 0734037856
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
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).
Solid Bitumens, Their Physical and Chemical Properties and Chemical Analysis
Author: Stephen Farnum PeckhamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asphalt
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Wright's new method for the cabinet organ
Author: Rodney P. WrightPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Organ music
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Pitch Perfect
Author: Erica SadunPublisher: Pearson Education
ISBN: 0321917618
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
Offers advice on marketing Web applications, covering such topics as positioning products, crafting pitches, building relationships, and tracking and targeting bloggers, and identifies common marketing mistakes.
A History of Performing Pitch
Author: Bruce HaynesPublisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810841851
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
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
Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts
Author: The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art
Author: The Eclectic Magazine
Author: John Holmes AgnewPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 878
Book Description
Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age
Author: John Holmes AgnewPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 910
Book Description