A History of Performing Pitch - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A History of Performing Pitch write by Bruce Haynes. This book was released on 2002-11-06. A History of Performing Pitch available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Haynes (U. of Montreal) traces the history of musical pitch standards over the last four centuries, linking frequency values to pitch names and telling where, when, and why various pitch levels have been used. With a focus on Italy, France, Germany, the Netherlands and the Hapsburg lands, he covers the pitches of about 1,400 historical instruments and how the design and function influenced and were influenced by changes in pitch. In addition, he studies the effect of pitch differences on musical notation and choice of key. The author has also written a book on the oboe, the instrument that plays the "A" to which a symphony orchestra tunes. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Tuning the Antipodes: Battles for performing pitch in Melbourne
Tuning the Antipodes: Battles for performing pitch in Melbourne - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tuning the Antipodes: Battles for performing pitch in Melbourne write by Simon Purtell. This book was released on 2016-12-01. Tuning the Antipodes: Battles for performing pitch in Melbourne available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examining the many controversies associated with pitch standards in Melbourne over more than a hundred years, Simon Purtell discovers their impact on the tuning of the city’s orchestras and organs, as well as its defence, municipal and Salvation Army bands. This fascinating history involves famous local and touring singers, conductors and organists, including Nellie Melba, Malcolm Sargent and William McKie, revealing just how complex a problem it was to ensure that Melbourne’s music-makers remained in tune. “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child has nothing on the saga of ‘Pitch, pitch, that cursed pitch’: the seemingly endless and frequently caustic attempts to establish a uniform performing pitch for music in the Antipodes. It is a typically Melburnian drama of mixed deference to Britain and stubborn upholding of local interests that the author so eloquently and patiently chronicles, and it ranges from the almost theocratic intervention of Dame Nellie Melba at the beginning of the twentieth century to the Stanthorpe Apple and Grape Harvest Festival of 1972. At the same time, it will have been a battle taking place comparably in all the major cities of the British Empire and beyond, though each with its peculiar twists and turns. What Simon Purtell has done is show us, in immaculate detail, just how pervasive and intricate, not to mention costly, this tectonic realignment of a fundamental element of musical infrastructure must have been in all places over a very long period of time” (Emeritus Professor Stephen Banfield, Centre for the History of Music in Britain, the Empire and the Commonwealth, University of Bristol).
The History of Musical Pitch
The History of Musical Pitch - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The History of Musical Pitch write by Alexander John Ellis. This book was released on 1880. The History of Musical Pitch available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
'In Tune with the Times'
'In Tune with the Times' - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook 'In Tune with the Times' write by Simon Andrew Purtell. This book was released on 2011. 'In Tune with the Times' available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Pitch Perfect
Pitch Perfect - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pitch Perfect write by Mickey Rapkin. This book was released on 2008. Pitch Perfect available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Chronicles the competition between three contending groups for the Collegiate A Cappella championship, evaluating how their achievements reflect a rising surge in the music form's popularity, as well as the diversity that has shaped its expression.
