Encyclopedia of Automatic Musical Instruments

Encyclopedia of Automatic Musical Instruments
Title Encyclopedia of Automatic Musical Instruments PDF eBook
Author Q. David Bowers
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 1997
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Encyclopedia of Automatic Musical Instruments

Encyclopedia of Automatic Musical Instruments
Title Encyclopedia of Automatic Musical Instruments PDF eBook
Author Q. David Bowers
Publisher
Pages 1008
Release 1972
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Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Volume 2

Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Volume 2
Title Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Volume 2 PDF eBook
Author John Shepherd
Publisher A&C Black
Pages 713
Release 2003-05-08
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1847144721

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The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music Volume 1 provides an overview of media, industry, and technology and its relationship to popular music. In 500 entries by 130 contributors from around the world, the volume explores the topic in two parts: Part I: Social and Cultural Dimensions, covers the social phenomena of relevance to the practice of popular music and Part II: The Industry, covers all aspects of the popular music industry, such as copyright, instrumental manufacture, management and marketing, record corporations, studios, companies, and labels. Entries include bibliographies, discographies and filmographies, and an extensive index is provided.

The Golden Age of Automatic Musical Instruments

The Golden Age of Automatic Musical Instruments
Title The Golden Age of Automatic Musical Instruments PDF eBook
Author Arthur A. Reblitz
Publisher
Pages 456
Release 2001
Genre Music
ISBN

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Image from the collections of Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village used on p. 14;neg. no. P.833.95043.2 Acc 1660.

Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World

Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World
Title Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World PDF eBook
Author John Shepherd
Publisher A&C Black
Pages 713
Release 2003
Genre Popular music
ISBN 0826463223

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Instruments for New Music

Instruments for New Music
Title Instruments for New Music PDF eBook
Author Thomas Patteson
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 251
Release 2016
Genre Music
ISBN 0520288025

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Listening to instruments -- "The joy of precision" : mechanical instruments and the aesthetics of automation -- "The alchemy of tone" : Jörg Mager and electric music -- "Sonic handwriting" : media instruments and musical inscription -- "A new, perfect musical instrument" : the trautonium and electric music in the 1930s -- The expanding instrumentarium

Inventing Entertainment

Inventing Entertainment
Title Inventing Entertainment PDF eBook
Author Brian Dolan
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages 227
Release 2009-01-16
Genre History
ISBN 0742564614

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Brian Dolan's social and cultural history of the music business in relation to the history of the player piano is a critical chapter in the story of contemporary life. The player piano made the American music industry-and American music itself-modern. For years, Tin Pan Alley composers and performers labored over scores for quick ditties destined for the vaudeville circuit or librettos destined for the Broadway stage. But, the introduction of the player piano in the early 1900s, transformed Tin Pan Alley's guild of composers, performers, and theater owners into a music industry. The player piano, with its perforated music rolls that told the pianos what key to strike, changed musical performance because it made a musical piece standard, repeatable, and easy rather than something laboriously learned. It also created a national audience because the music that was played in New Orleans or Kansas City could also be played in New York or Missoula, as new music (ragtime) and dance (fox-trot) styles crisscrossed the continent along with the player piano's music rolls. By the 1920s, only automobile sales exceeded the amount generated by player pianos and their music rolls. Consigned today to the realm of collectors and technological arcane, the player piano was a moving force in American music and American life.