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This is a free ebook version of this title is available through the UC Press open access program. Player pianos, radio-electric circuits, gramophone records, and optical sound film - these were the cutting-edge acoustic technologies of the early twentieth century, and for many musicians and artists of the time, these devices were also the implements of a musical revolution. Instruments for New Music traces a diffuse network of cultural agents who shared the belief that a truly modern music could be attained only through a radical challenge to the technological foundations of the art. Centered in Germany during the 1920s and '30s, the movement for new instruments encompassed a broad spectrum of aesthetic orientations, from the exploration of microtonal tunings and exotic tone-colors to the ability to compose directly for automatic musical machines. It involved composers, inventors, and visual artists, including Paul Hindemith, Ernst Toch, Jorg Mager, Friedrich Trautwein, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Walter Ruttmann, and Oskar Fischinger. Patteson's fascinating study combines an artifact-oriented history of new music in the early twentieth century with an astute revisiting of still-relevant debates about the relationship between technology and the arts.

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Book category Books in English The arts Music Music reviews & criticism

• Full title: Instruments for New Music
• Subtitle: Sound, Technology, and Modernism
• Author: Thomas W. Patteson
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 250
• EAN: 9780520288027
• ISBN: 0520288025
• ID: 09351209
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Weight: 402 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 154 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 11. November 2015

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