Title Instruments for new music : sound, technology, and modernism / Thomas Patteson.

Publication Info.	Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]
	©2016

Item Status

Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Talbott: Circulating Collection	ML460 .P38 2016	Available	---

Description	xii, 236 pages : illustrations, music ; 23 cm
	pages : illustrations ; cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-228) and index.
Contents	Listening to instruments -- "The joy of precision": mechanical instruments and the aesthetics of automation -- "The alchemy of tone": Jörg 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.
Language	English text.
Subject	Musical instruments.
	Musical instruments.
	Music and technology -- History.
	Music and technology.
	History.
	Electronic musical instruments -- History.
	Electronic musical instruments.
	Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
	Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
Genre/Form	History.
ISBN	9780520288027 (paperback : alkaline paper)
	0520288025 (paperback : alkaline paper)
	9780520963122 (ebook)