Measure (In Pursuit of Musical Time)
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Product Details
Author:
Marc D. Moskovitz
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
342
Publisher:
Boydell & Brewer Inc. (September 27, 2022)
Language:
English
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13:
9781783276615
ISBN-10:
1783276614
Dimensions:
5.43" x 8.5"
File:
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Folder:
TWO RIVERS
List Price:
$29.95
Case Pack:
20
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$26.96
Publisher Identifier:
P-PER
Discount Code:
G
Country of Origin:
United Kingdom
Weight:
20.8oz
Pub Discount:
40
Imprint:
Boydell Press
Overview
The book opens with an exploration of musical time keeping as expressed in the artwork and musical writing of the Renaissance, sources that inform our early understanding of an age when music making was bound up with motions of the body and the pulsing of the human heart. With the adoption of the simple pendulum and the subsequent incorporation of tempo-related language, musicians gained the ability to communicate concepts of speed and slowness with ever-increasing precision. The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries witnessed the development of a diverse array of musical time-keeping devices, yet it was not until the nineteenth century that a single device combined the critical elements of accuracy, functionality and affordability.
Enter the metronome: portable and affordable, a triumph of innovation that enabled musicians to establish and faithfully reproduce musical time with accuracy and ease. From Beethoven to Ligeti, Moskovitz looks to a number of distinguished composers who used or refused this revolutionary machine and explores the complicated relationship that unfolded between the metronome, the musical world and practitioners in other disciplines who sought to exploit its potential.
Engagingly written, Measure: In Pursuit of Musical Time will appeal to professionals and amateurs alike.
Enter the metronome: portable and affordable, a triumph of innovation that enabled musicians to establish and faithfully reproduce musical time with accuracy and ease. From Beethoven to Ligeti, Moskovitz looks to a number of distinguished composers who used or refused this revolutionary machine and explores the complicated relationship that unfolded between the metronome, the musical world and practitioners in other disciplines who sought to exploit its potential.
Engagingly written, Measure: In Pursuit of Musical Time will appeal to professionals and amateurs alike.
