The Relentless Pursuit of Tone investigates the many ways tone and timbre function in popular music. From the twang of the banjo to the thump of subwoofers on the dance floor, the authors engage with the entire history of popular music as recorded sound, from the 1930s to the pr…
"The first book on timbre (or, tone color), and one that covers both classical and popular music"--.
"The Orchestral Revolution explores the changing listening culture of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Delving into Enlightenment philosophy, the nature of instruments, compositional practices and reception history, this book describes the birth of a new form of at…
This book explores the relationship between the history of orchestration and the development of modern musical aesthetics in the Enlightenment.
