The Oxford handbook of timbre
by Dolan, Emily I. Rehding, Alexander
"With essays covering an array of topics including ancient Homeric texts, contemporary sound installations, violin mutes, birdsong, and cochlear implants, this volume reveals the richness of what it means to think and talk about timbre and the materiality of the experience of sound"--
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- Full title :The Oxford handbook of timbre / edited by Emily I. Dolan and Alexander Rehding.
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"With essays covering an array of topics including ancient Homeric texts, contemporary sound installations, violin mutes, birdsong, and cochlear implants, this volume reveals the richness of what it means to think and talk about timbre and the materiality of the experience of sound"--
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- Publication Date:2021.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2021.
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- Description:xii, 723 pages : : illustrations, music ; : 26 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780190637224, 0190637226
- oclc:on1120796627
- LC Classification:ML3807
- Dewey Decimal:781.2/34
Table of Contents
Introduction. -- Timbre : Alternative Histories and Possible Futures for the Study of Music / Emily I. Dolan and Alexander Rehding -- Part I. Philosophies. The Matter of Timbre : Listening, Genealogy, Sound / Daniel Villegas Vélez -- Deconstruction and Timbre / Naomi Waltham-Smith -- Timbrality : The Vibrant Aesthetics of Tone Color / Isabella van Elferen -- Qur'an Alphabetics and the Timbre of Recitation / Peter McMurray -- Translations : Adorno and Dahlhaus / Thomas Patteson -- The Function of Timbre in Music (1966) / Theodor W. Adorno -- On the Theory of Instrumentation (1985) / Carl Dahlhaus -- Part II. Histories and Cultures. -- Ethereal Timbres / Emily I. Dolan and Thomas Patteson -- Timbre-Centered Listening in the Soundscape of Tuva / Theodore Levin and Valentina Süzükei -- Tracing Timbre in Ancient Greece / Naomi Weiss -- Early Modern Voices / Bettina Varwig -- Timbre Before Timbre : Listening to the Effects of Organ Stops, Violin Mutes and Piano Pedals c. 1650-1800 / Deirdre Loughridge -- Schoenberg as Sound Student : Pierrot's Klang / Joseph Auner -- Futurist Timbres : Listening Failure in Milan, 1909-1914 / Gavin Williams -- Part III. Technologies. -- Timbral Thievery …
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