Instruments for new music : sound, technology, and modernism /

Patteson, Thomas,

Instruments for new music : sound, technology, and modernism / Thomas Patteson. - 1 online resource (252 pages) : illustrations, music

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Listening to instruments -- "The joy of precision" : mechanical instruments and the aesthetics of automation -- "The alchemy of tone" : Jorg Mager and electric music -- "Sonic handwriting" : media instruments and musical inscription -- "A new, perfect musical instrument" : the trautonium and electric music in the 1930s -- The expanding instrumentarium.

9780520963122


Musical instruments.
Music and technology--History.
Electronic musical instruments--History.
Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.


Electronic books.

ML460 / .P347 2016

784.1909/04