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A History of Performing Pitch

2002-11-06 History
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Release : 2002-11-06
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Book Synopsis A History of Performing Pitch by : Bruce Haynes

Download or read book A History of Performing Pitch written by Bruce Haynes. This book was released on 2002-11-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

2016-12-01 Music
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Release : 2016-12-01
Genre : Music
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Book Synopsis Tuning the Antipodes: Battles for performing pitch in Melbourne by : Simon Purtell

Download or read book Tuning the Antipodes: Battles for performing pitch in Melbourne written by Simon Purtell. This book was released on 2016-12-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

1880 Musical pitch
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Release : 1880
Genre : Musical pitch
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Book Synopsis The History of Musical Pitch by : Alexander John Ellis

Download or read book The History of Musical Pitch written by Alexander John Ellis. This book was released on 1880. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

'In Tune with the Times'

2011 Musical pitch
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Release : 2011
Genre : Musical pitch
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Book Synopsis 'In Tune with the Times' by : Simon Andrew Purtell

Download or read book 'In Tune with the Times' written by Simon Andrew Purtell. This book was released on 2011. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The First Fleet Piano: Volume One

2015-11-03 Music
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Release : 2015-11-03
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Book Synopsis The First Fleet Piano: Volume One by : Geoffrey Lancaster

Download or read book The First Fleet Piano: Volume One written by Geoffrey Lancaster. This book was released on 2015-11-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the late eighteenth century, a musical–cultural phenomenon swept the globe. The English square piano—invented in the early 1760s by an entrepreneurial German guitar maker in London—not only became an indispensable part of social life, but also inspired the creation of an expressive and scintillating repertoire. Square pianos reinforced music as life’s counterpoint, and were played by royalty, by musicians of the highest calibre and by aspiring amateurs alike. On Sunday, 13 May 1787, a square piano departed from Portsmouth on board the Sirius, the flagship of the First Fleet, bound for Botany Bay. Who made the First Fleet piano, and when was it made? Who owned it? Who played it, and who listened? What music did the instrument sound out, and within what contexts was its voice heard? What became of the First Fleet piano after its arrival on antipodean soil, and who played a part in the instrument’s subsequent history? Two extant instruments contend for the title ‘First Fleet piano’; which of these made the epic journey to Botany Bay in 1787–88? The First Fleet Piano: A Musician’s View answers these questions, and provides tantalising glimpses of social and cultural life both in Georgian England and in the early colony at Sydney Cove. The First Fleet piano is placed within the musical and social contexts for which it was created, and narratives of the individuals whose lives have been touched by the instrument are woven together into an account of the First Fleet piano’s conjunction with the forces of history. View ‘The First Fleet Piano: Volume Two Appendices’. Note: Volume 1 and 2 are sold as a set ($180 for both) and cannot be purchased separately.

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