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Cover: 9780226823263 | Tuning the World | Fanny Gribenski | Buch | Einband - fest (Hardcover)
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Tuning the World
The Rise of 440 Hertz in Music, Science, and Politics, 1859-1955
Buch von Fanny Gribenski
Sprache: Englisch

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Tuning the World tells the unknown story of how the musical pitch A 440 became the global norm. Now commonly accepted as the point of reference for musicians in the Western world, A 440 hertz only became the standard pitch during an international conference held in 1939. The adoption of this norm was the result of decades of negotiations between countries, involving a diverse group of performers, composers, diplomats, physicists, and sound engineers. Although there is widespread awareness of the variability of musical pitches over time, as attested by the use of lower frequencies to perform early music repertoires, no study has fully explained the invention of our current concert pitch. In this book, Fanny Gribenski draws on a rich variety of previously unexplored archival sources and a unique combination of musicological perspectives, transnational history, and science studies to tell the unknown story of how A 440 became the global norm. Tuning the World demonstrates the aesthetic, scientific, industrial, and political contingencies underlying the construction of one of the most "natural" objects of contemporary musical performance and shows how this century-old effort was ultimately determined by the influence of a few powerful nations.
Tuning the World tells the unknown story of how the musical pitch A 440 became the global norm. Now commonly accepted as the point of reference for musicians in the Western world, A 440 hertz only became the standard pitch during an international conference held in 1939. The adoption of this norm was the result of decades of negotiations between countries, involving a diverse group of performers, composers, diplomats, physicists, and sound engineers. Although there is widespread awareness of the variability of musical pitches over time, as attested by the use of lower frequencies to perform early music repertoires, no study has fully explained the invention of our current concert pitch. In this book, Fanny Gribenski draws on a rich variety of previously unexplored archival sources and a unique combination of musicological perspectives, transnational history, and science studies to tell the unknown story of how A 440 became the global norm. Tuning the World demonstrates the aesthetic, scientific, industrial, and political contingencies underlying the construction of one of the most "natural" objects of contemporary musical performance and shows how this century-old effort was ultimately determined by the influence of a few powerful nations.
Über den Autor
Fanny Gribenski is assistant professor of music at New York University. She is the author of one book in French.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Importe, Musik
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Thema: Musiktheorie & Musiklehre
Medium: Buch
Reihe: New Material Histories of Music
Inhalt: Einband - fest (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780226823263
ISBN-10: 0226823261
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Gribenski, Fanny
Hersteller: The University of Chicago Press
New Material Histories of Music
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 232 x 156 x 24 mm
Von/Mit: Fanny Gribenski
Erscheinungsdatum: 27.03.2023
Gewicht: 0,528 kg
Artikel-ID: 121359748
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