ISBN: 9780226823263 - Tuning the World: The Rise of 440 Hertz in Music, Science, and Politics, 1859–1955 (new Material Histories of Music) (20 results)

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Hardback. Condition: New. 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.…

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Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - 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.…

Condition: New. &Uumlber den AutorFanny Gribenski is assistant professor of music at New York University. She is the author of one book in French.

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Buch. Condition: Neu. Tuning the World | The Rise of 440 Hertz in Music, Science, and Politics, 1859-1955 | Fanny Gribenski | Buch | Einband - fest (Hardcover) | Englisch | 2023 | University of Chicago Press | EAN 9780226823263 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.…

Hardback. Condition: New. 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.…