Download or read book Multiple Division of the Octave and the Tonal Resources of 19 tone Temperament written by Joel Mandelbaum and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 972 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Multiple Division of the Octave and the Tonal Resources of 19 tone Temperament written by Mayer Joel Mandelbaum and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mathematical Theory of Tone Systems written by Jan Haluska and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2003-12-19 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mathematical Theory of Tone Systems patterns a unified theory defining the tone system in functional terms based on the principles and forms of uncertainty theory. This title uses geometrical nets and other measures to study all classes of used and theoretical tone systems, from Pythagorean tuning to superparticular pentatonics. Hundreds of examples of past and prevalent tone systems are featured. Topics include Fuzziness and Sonance, Wavelets and Nonspecificity, Pitch Granulation and Ambiguity, Equal Temperaments, Mean Tone Systems. Well Tempered Systems, Ptolemy Systems, and more. Appendices include extended lists of tone systems and a catalogue of historical organs with subsemitones.
Download or read book Treatise on Harpsichord Tuning written by Jean Denis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1987-04-09 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A translation of Jean Denis's Treatise on Harpsichord Tuning (1643/50), with notes and an introduction.
Download or read book Microtonality and the Tuning Systems of Erv Wilson written by Terumi Narushima and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the emerging area of microtonality through an examination of the tuning theories of Erv Wilson. It is the first publication to offer a broad discussion of this influential theorist whose innovations have far-reaching ramifications for microtonal tuning systems. This study addresses the breadth and complexity of Wilson’s work by focusing on his microtonal keyboard designs as a means to investigate his tuning concepts and their practical applications. Narushima examines materials ranging from historical and experimental tunings to instrument design, as well as musical applications of mathematical theories and multidimensional geometry. The volume provides an analysis of some of Wilson’s most significant theoretical ideas, including the Scale Tree, Moments of Symmetry, Constant Structures, and Combination-Product Sets. These theories offer ways to conceptualize musical scales as patterns with structural integrity and whose shapes can be altered to produce infinitely varying forms. The book shows how these structural properties can be used to map scales onto a microtonal keyboard by providing step-by-step guidelines and clearly illustrated examples. Most importantly, it brings together theoretical and practical methods of tuning to enable composers, performers, and instrument designers to explore previously uncharted areas of microtonality, making a significant contribution to the fields of music theory, composition and music technology.
Download or read book Music and Memory written by Bob Snyder and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Divided into two parts, this book shows how human memory influences the organization of music. The first part presents ideas about memory and perception from cognitive psychology and the second part of the book shows how these concepts are exemplified in music.
Download or read book The Unorthodox Guitar written by Mike Frengel and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Unorthodox Guitar: A Guide to Alternative Performance Practice is a comprehensive resource for experimentally minded guitarists and composers wishing to write for or perform on the instrument in new ways. The book focuses primarily on unconventional approaches to guitar performance, which include alternative tunings, extended techniques, instrumental preparations, electronic augmentations, and issues related to performing and recording with a computer. Embracing all guitar types-nylon, steel-string acoustic, and electric-techniques and examples are culled from a broad range of musical genres, including blues, contemporary classical, country, folk, jazz, rock, and non-Western idioms. While the writing offers a treasure trove of possibilities for experimental improvisation, it is oriented towards formal composition, and to that end details the controllable dimensions of the techniques and preparations at hand, along with strategies that might be adopted to notate them. Conventional guitar amplifiers, effect pedals, and pedalboards are examined, along with a discussion of analog signal chains, rig design, and best practices for the preservation of tone. In addition, possibilities afforded by the addition of a computer to the guitar rig are explored, including signal processing, sensor augmentation, and score following. The writing is paired with a companion website that contains an abundance of audio, video, and software materials to supplement the ideas presented. This information is intended to serve as a guide, reference, and source of inspiration for those wishing to compose and/or perform on the instrument in innovative ways.
Download or read book The Computer and Music written by Harry B. Lincoln and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-30 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first of its kind, this is book consists of twenty-one essays describing the many different uses of the digital computer in the field of music. Musicologists will find that various historical periods-from medieval to contemporary-are represented, and examples of computer analysis of ethnic music are considered. Edmund A. Bowles contributes an entertaining historical survey of music research and the computer. Lejaren Hill here discusses computer composition, both in this country and in Europe, and gives a bibliography of composers and their works. A. James Gabura's essay describes experiments in analyzing and identifying the keyboard styles of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. There is also a section of particular interest to music librarians.
Download or read book Maximum Clarity and Other Writings on Music written by Ben Johnston and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Described by New York Times critic John Rockwell as "one of the best non-famous composers this country has to offer," Ben Johnston reconceives familiar idioms--ranging from neoclassicism and serialism to jazz and southern hymnody--using just intonation. Johnston studied with Darius Milhaud, Harry Partch, and John Cage, and is best known for his String Quartet No. 4, a complex series of variations on Amazing Grace. This collection spans forty years and brings together forty-one of Johnston's most important writings, including many rare and several previously unpublished selections. They include position papers, theoretical treatises, program notes, historical reflections, lectures, excerpts from interviews, and letters, and they cover a broad spectrum of concerns--from the technical exegesis of microtonality to the personal and the broadly humanistic. A discography of commercially available recordings of Johnston's music closes out the collection.
Download or read book Polytempic Polymicrotonal Music written by Peter Alexander Thoegersen and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2022-09-08 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces polytempic polymicrotonality as a new musical aesthetic. It proposes music with more than one microtonal tuning system and discusses examples from the literature to give an historic framework showing that this tendency has been present throughout human musical history. Polytempo is a tool for which polymicrotonal structures can function in relief from its background, and it acts as a frame, or ground structure, that is multidimensional, akin to the advancement of perspective in Renaissance art. The book has historic significance as it is the only book of its category, or genre, in music that features polymicrotonality in music composition or production. It displays examples of music literature for musical precedence in this area, focusing on Charles Ives’s Universe Symphony, unfinished since 1925.
Download or read book Exploring Musical Spaces written by Julian Hook and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-08 with total page 681 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring Musical Spaces is a comprehensive synthesis of mathematical techniques in music theory, written with the aim of making these techniques accessible to music scholars without extensive prior training in mathematics. The book adopts a visual orientation, introducing from the outset a number of simple geometric models--the first examples of the musical spaces of the book's title--depicting relationships among musical entities of various kinds such as notes, chords, scales, or rhythmic values. These spaces take many forms and become a unifying thread in initiating readers into several areas of active recent scholarship, including transformation theory, neo-Riemannian theory, geometric music theory, diatonic theory, and scale theory. Concepts and techniques from mathematical set theory, graph theory, group theory, geometry, and topology are introduced as needed to address musical questions. Musical examples ranging from Bach to the late twentieth century keep the underlying musical motivations close at hand. The book includes hundreds of figures to aid in visualizing the structure of the spaces, as well as exercises offering readers hands-on practice with a diverse assortment of concepts and techniques.
Download or read book Baker s Biographical Dictionary of Musicians written by Theodore Baker and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1992 with total page 2156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classical work of musical biography which provides factual accuracy, informatiove histories of the men and women of music and critical insights into their work.
Download or read book Divisions of the Tetrachord written by John H. Chalmers and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Music of Harry Partch written by Thomas McGeary and published by Brooklyn, N.Y. : Institute for Studies in American Music, Conservatory of Music, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. This book was released on 1991 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Current Musicology written by Austin Clarkson and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Enharmonic written by Patrizio Barbieri and published by Il Levante. This book was released on 2008 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enharmonic instruments and music 1470-1900 is the first complete look at the instruments provided with more than the standard twelve keys per octave, traditionally called "enharmonic": a fascinating but still obscure topic, which since the Renaissance has been investigated by practical musicians, theoreticians, instrument makers, acousticians, mathematicians, and philosophers. These instruments, as conceived from the 15th to 19th centuries, are divided into two types: open-chain (i.e. harmonically "non circulating", adopting just or meantone intonation) and closed-chain (i.e. "circulating", based on different types of Equal-Tempered System). The attached CD--which contains a good part of the surviving rare compositions written for the said systems, digitally mounted--will also provide the reader with concrete acoustic examples of the micro-intervals for which a written text can offer only arithmetical ratios. Also examined are: (1) problems of performance practice relating to the intonation of violins, woodwinds, and singers; (2) attempts to reintroduce the ancient Greek genera and tonoi, all carried out in the first half of the 17th century; (3) repeated proposals to extend "just intonation" to harmonic numbers beyond those of Zarlino's Senario, with the consequent introduction of the new enharmonic intervals produced by Septimal and Undecimal Harmonies; (4) early mathematical divisions of the octave in 'n' equal parts [Publisher description]
Download or read book The Sonneck Society Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
