Author: Arthur A. ReblitzPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Image from the collections of Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village used on p. 14;neg. no. P.833.95043.2 Acc 1660.
The Golden Age of Automatic Musical Instruments
Author: Arthur A. ReblitzPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Image from the collections of Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village used on p. 14;neg. no. P.833.95043.2 Acc 1660.
Encyclopedia of Automatic Musical Instruments
Author: Q. David BowersEncyclopedia of Automatic Musical Instruments
Author: Q. David BowersInstruments for New Music
Author: Thomas PattesonPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520288025
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Listening to instruments -- "The joy of precision" : mechanical instruments and the aesthetics of automation -- "The alchemy of tone" : Jörg Mager and electric music -- "Sonic handwriting" : media instruments and musical inscription -- "A new, perfect musical instrument" : the trautonium and electric music in the 1930s -- The expanding instrumentarium
Automatic Musical Instruments
Author: Jan Jaap HaspelsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mechanical musical instruments
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Encyclopedia of Automatic Musical Instruments... Mainly of the 1750-1940 Era Including a Dictionary of Automatic Musical Instrument Terms
Author: Q. David BowersTreasures of Mechanical Music
Author: Arthur A. ReblitzPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Inventing Entertainment
Author: Brian DolanPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 0742564614
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Brian Dolan's social and cultural history of the music business in relation to the history of the player piano is a critical chapter in the story of contemporary life. The player piano made the American music industry-and American music itself-modern. For years, Tin Pan Alley composers and performers labored over scores for quick ditties destined for the vaudeville circuit or librettos destined for the Broadway stage. But, the introduction of the player piano in the early 1900s, transformed Tin Pan Alley's guild of composers, performers, and theater owners into a music industry. The player piano, with its perforated music rolls that told the pianos what key to strike, changed musical performance because it made a musical piece standard, repeatable, and easy rather than something laboriously learned. It also created a national audience because the music that was played in New Orleans or Kansas City could also be played in New York or Missoula, as new music (ragtime) and dance (fox-trot) styles crisscrossed the continent along with the player piano's music rolls. By the 1920s, only automobile sales exceeded the amount generated by player pianos and their music rolls. Consigned today to the realm of collectors and technological arcane, the player piano was a moving force in American music and American life.
American Orchestras in the Nineteenth Century
Author: John SpitzerPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226769763
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Studies of concert life in nineteenth-century America have generally been limited to large orchestras and the programs we are familiar with today. But as this book reveals, audiences of that era enjoyed far more diverse musical experiences than this focus would suggest. To hear an orchestra, people were more likely to head to a beer garden, restaurant, or summer resort than to a concert hall. And what they heard weren’t just symphonic works—programs also included opera excerpts and arrangements, instrumental showpieces, comic numbers, and medleys of patriotic tunes. This book brings together musicologists and historians to investigate the many orchestras and programs that developed in nineteenth-century America. In addition to reflecting on the music that orchestras played and the socioeconomic aspects of building and maintaining orchestras, the book considers a wide range of topics, including audiences, entrepreneurs, concert arrangements, tours, and musicians’ unions. The authors also show that the period saw a massive influx of immigrant performers, the increasing ability of orchestras to travel across the nation, and the rising influence of women as listeners, patrons, and players. Painting a rich and detailed picture of nineteenth-century concert life, this collection will greatly broaden our understanding of America’s musical history.
Author: Q. David Bowers