The Just Intonation Primer - 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 Just Intonation Primer write by David B. Doty. This book was released on 2002. The Just Intonation Primer available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Arithmetic of Listening
The Arithmetic of Listening - 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 Arithmetic of Listening write by Kyle Gann. This book was released on 2019-09-16. The Arithmetic of Listening available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Tuning is the secret lens through which the history of music falls into focus," says Kyle Gann. Yet in Western circles, no other musical issue is so ignored, so taken for granted, so shoved into the corners of musical discourse. A classroom essential and an invaluable reference, The Arithmetic of Listening offers beginners the grounding in music theory necessary to find their own way into microtonality and the places it may take them. Moving from ancient Greece to the present, Kyle Gann delves into the infinite tunings available to any musician who feels straitjacketed by obedience to standardized Western European tuning. He introduces the concept of the harmonic series and demonstrates its relationship to equal-tempered and well-tempered tuning. He also explores recent experimental tuning models that exploit smaller intervals between pitches to create new sounds and harmonies. Systematic and accessible, The Arithmetic of Listening provides a much-needed primer for the wide range of tuning systems that have informed Western music. Audio examples demonstrating the musical ideas in The Arithmetic of Listening can be found at: https://www.kylegann.com/Arithmetic.html
Fiddle Primer
Fiddle Primer - 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 Fiddle Primer write by Jim Tolles. This book was released on 1998-01-01. Fiddle Primer available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first book clearly showing the beginner how to play the fiddle. Includes many illustrations showing how to hold the bow and fiddle properly and many exercises to develop good bowing technique and learning how to play in tune. Great beginnner fiddle lessons.
Genesis Of A Music
Genesis Of A Music - 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 Genesis Of A Music write by Harry Partch. This book was released on 1979-08-22. Genesis Of A Music available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Among the few truly experimental composers in our cultural history, Harry Partch's life (1901–1974) and music embody most completely the quintessential American rootlessness, isolation, pre-civilized cult of experience, and dichotomy of practical invention and transcendental visions. Having lived mostly in the remote deserts of Arizona and New Mexico with no access to formal training, Partch naturally created theatrical ritualistic works incorporating Indian chants, Japanese kabuki and Noh, Polynesian microtones, Balinese gamelan, Greek tragedy, dance, mime, and sardonic commentary on Hollywood and commercial pop music of modern civilization. First published in 1949, Genesis of a Music is the manifesto of Partch's radical compositional practice and instruments (which owe nothing to the 300-year-old European tradition of Western music.) He contrasts Abstract and Corporeal music, proclaiming the latter as the vital, emotionally tactile form derived from the spoken word (like Greek, Chinese, Arabic, and Indian musics) and surveys the history of world music at length from this perspective. Parts II, III, and IV explain Partch's theories of scales, intonation, and instrument construction with copious acoustical and mathematical documentation. Anyone with a musically creative attitude, whether or not familiar with traditional music theory, will find this book revelatory.
Microtonality and the Tuning Systems of Erv Wilson
Microtonality and the Tuning Systems of Erv Wilson - 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 Microtonality and the Tuning Systems of Erv Wilson write by Terumi Narushima. This book was released on 2017-11-22. Microtonality and the Tuning Systems of Erv Wilson available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the emerging area of microtonality through an examination of the tuning theories of Erv Wilson. It is the first publication to offer a broad discussion of this influential theorist whose innovations have far-reaching ramifications for microtonal tuning systems. This study addresses the breadth and complexity of Wilson’s work by focusing on his microtonal keyboard designs as a means to investigate his tuning concepts and their practical applications. Narushima examines materials ranging from historical and experimental tunings to instrument design, as well as musical applications of mathematical theories and multidimensional geometry. The volume provides an analysis of some of Wilson’s most significant theoretical ideas, including the Scale Tree, Moments of Symmetry, Constant Structures, and Combination-Product Sets. These theories offer ways to conceptualize musical scales as patterns with structural integrity and whose shapes can be altered to produce infinitely varying forms. The book shows how these structural properties can be used to map scales onto a microtonal keyboard by providing step-by-step guidelines and clearly illustrated examples. Most importantly, it brings together theoretical and practical methods of tuning to enable composers, performers, and instrument designers to explore previously uncharted areas of microtonality, making a significant contribution to the fields of music theory, composition and music technology.
