Author: Juste Adrien La FagePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Musical pitch
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
De L'unité Tonique Et de la Fixation D'un Diapason Universel
Author: Juste Adrien La FagePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Musical pitch
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
De l'unité tonique et de la fixation d'un diapason universel
Author: Notes additionnelles à l'opuscule intitulé : "de l'Unité tonique et de la fixation d'un diapason universel", par Adrien de La Fage
Author: Adrien de La FageLe Guide Musical
Author: Tuning the World
Author: Fanny GribenskiPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022682327X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
Tuning the World tells the unknown story of how the musical pitch A 440 became the global norm. Now commonly accepted as the point of reference for musicians in the Western world, A 440 hertz only became the standard pitch during an international conference held in 1939. The adoption of this norm was the result of decades of negotiations between countries, involving a diverse group of performers, composers, diplomats, physicists, and sound engineers. Although there is widespread awareness of the variability of musical pitches over time, as attested by the use of lower frequencies to perform early music repertoires, no study has fully explained the invention of our current concert pitch. In this book, Fanny Gribenski draws on a rich variety of previously unexplored archival sources and a unique combination of musicological perspectives, transnational history, and science studies to tell the unknown story of how A 440 became the global norm. Tuning the World demonstrates the aesthetic, scientific, industrial, and political contingencies underlying the construction of one of the most “natural” objects of contemporary musical performance and shows how this century-old effort was ultimately determined by the influence of a few powerful nations.
The Organ: a Comprehensive Treatise on Its Structure
Author: John Watson WarmanThe Organ
Author: John Watson WarmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Organ (Musical instrument)
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
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
Catalogue of the Allen A. Brown Collection of Music in the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author: Boston Public Library. Allen A. Brown Collection of MusicPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Catalogue of the Musical Library of the Late Wm. Euing, Esq., Bequeathed to Anderson's University, Glasgow (now Called Anderson's College)
Author: Euing Musical LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description