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dc.contributor.authorPatteson, Thomas
dc.date.accessioned2016-02-12 00:00:00
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-01T14:20:59Z
dc.date.available2020-04-01T14:20:59Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier602282
dc.identifierOCN: 960164725en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/32858
dc.description.abstractPlayer pianos, radio-electric circuits, gramophone records, and optical sound film—these were the cutting-edge acoustic technologies of the early twentieth century, and for many musicians and artists of the time, these devices were also the implements of a musical revolution. Instruments for New Music traces a diffuse network of cultural agents who shared the belief that a truly modern music could be attained only through a radical challenge to the technological foundations of the art. Centered in Germany during the 1920s and 1930s, the movement to create new instruments encompassed a broad spectrum of experiments, from the exploration of microtonal tunings and exotic tone colors to the ability to compose directly for automatic musical machines. This movement comprised composers, inventors, and visual artists, including Paul Hindemith, Ernst Toch, Jörg Mager, Friedrich Trautwein, László Moholy-Nagy, Walter Ruttmann, and Oskar Fischinger. Patteson’s fascinating study combines an artifact-oriented history of new music in the early twentieth century with an astute revisiting of still-relevant debates about the relationship between technology and the arts.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AV Musicen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AV Music::AVA Theory of music and musicologyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studiesen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering and technologyen_US
dc.subject.othermusic and technology
dc.subject.otheracoustic technology
dc.subject.otherelectronic musical instruments
dc.subject.othermusical instruments
dc.subject.otherHans Heinz Stuckenschmidt
dc.subject.otherPaul Hindemith
dc.subject.otherSound film
dc.subject.otherTimbre
dc.titleInstruments for New Music: Sound, Technology, and Modernism
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.1525/luminos.7
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy72f3a53e-04bb-4d73-b921-22a29d903b3b
oapen.relation.isbn9780520963122
oapen.pages250
oapen.place.publicationOakland, California
oapen.remark.publicRelevant Wikipedia pages: Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Heinz_Stuckenschmidt; Musical instrument - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_instrument; Paul Hindemith - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Hindemith; Sound film - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_film; Timbre - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timbre
oapen.identifier.ocn960164725


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