Author: Jody C. HallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tuning
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
The Effect of Temperature on the Tuning Standards of Wind Instruments
Author: Jody C. HallTuning the World
Author: Fanny GribenskiPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226823261
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.
Rehearsal Handbook for Band and Orchestra Students
Author: Robert Joseph GarofaloPublisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9781574630084
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Comprehensive handbook designed especially for secondary school band and orchestra students. Inlcudes rehearsal enrichment study units covering the fundamentals of music, intervals and chords, transposition, acoustics, tuning and intonation, music terms and symbols, sight-reading, conducting and music history -- p. 1.
The Art of Flute Playing
Author: Edwin PutnikPublisher: Alfred Music
ISBN: 9781457400377
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Edwin Putnik, like most other contributors to the The Art of series, has been a member of many prestigious symphony orchestras and university faculties. The Art of Flute Playing can aid students of all degrees of advancement. Part I is devoted to Basic Principles and Pedagogy, Part II to Artist Performance. Part I is particularly helpful not only to beginning flute students, but also to non-flutists teaching in school music programs.
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Author: Acoustical Society of AmericaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architectural acoustics
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
List of members in v. 1.
Journal of Band Research
Author: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Musical Instruments Recently Exhibited at the Royal Military Exhibition, London, 1890
Author: Instrumental Music Pedagogy
Author: Daniel L. KohutPublisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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).
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