The Oxford handbook of timbre / edited by Emily I. Dolan and Alexander Rehding.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dolan, Emily I., editor.

Rehding, Alexander, editor.

Series:

Oxford handbooks

Oxford Handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tone color (Music).

Sound.

Physical Description:

xii, 723 pages : illustrations, music ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2021.

Summary:

"With essays covering an array of topics including ancient Homeric texts, contemporary sound installations, violin mutes, birdsong, and cochlear implants, this volume reveals the richness of what it means to think and talk about timbre and the materiality of the experience of sound"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Timbre: Alternative Histories and Possible Futures for the Study of Music / Alexander Rehding

pt. I PHILOSOPHIES

2. The Matter of Timbre: Listening, Genealogy, Sound / Daniel Villegas Velez

3. Deconstruction and Timbre / Naomi Waltham-Smith

4. Timbrality: The Vibrant Aesthetics of Tone Color / Isabella van Elferen

5. Quran Alphabetics and the Timbre of Recitation / Peter McMurray

6.1. Translations: Adorno and Dahlhaus / Thomas Patteson

6.2. The Function of Timbre in Music (1966) / Theodor W. Adorno

6.3. On the Theory of Instrumentation (1985) / Carl Dahlhaus

pt. II HISTORIES AND CULTURES

7. Ethereal Timbres / Thomas Patteson

8. Timbre-Centered Listening in the Soundscape of Tuva / Valentina Suzukei

9. Tracing Timbre in Ancient Greece / Naomi Weiss

10. Early Modern Voices / Bettina Varwig

11. Timbre Before Timbre: Listening to the Effects of Organ Stops, Violin Mutes, and Piano Pedals ca. 1650-1800 / Deirdre Loughridge

12. Schoenberg as Sound Student: Pierrot's Klang / Joseph Auner

13. Futurist Timbres: Listening Failure in Milan, 1909-1914 / Gavin Williams

pt. III TECHNOLOGIES

14. Timbral Thievery: Synthesizers and Sonic Materiality / Jonathan De Souza

15. Timbre/Techne / Alexander Rehding

16. Technology and Timbre: Features of the Changing Instrumental Soundscape of the Long Nineteenth Century (1789-1914) / Elizabeth Bradley Strauchen-Scherer

17. Don't Choose the Nightingale: Timbre, Index, and Birdsong in Respighi's Pini di Roma / Arman Schwartz

18. The Naturalization of Timbre: Two Case Studies / Alexandra Hui

19. Music for Cochlear Implants / Stefan Helmreich

pt. IV PERCEPTION AND ANALYSIS

20. Perceptual Processes in Orchestration / Stephen McAdams

21. Timbre as Harmony

Harmony as Timbre / Robert Hasegawa

22. Timbre and Polyphony in Balinese Gamelan / Michael Tenzer

23. Describing Sound: The Cognitive Linguistics of Timbre / Roger A. Kendall

24. Timbre, Komplexeindruck, and Modernity: Klangfarbe as a Catalyst of Psychological Research in Carl Stumpf, 1890-1926 / Sebastian Klotz

25. Pitch vs. Timbre / Daniel K. S. Walden

26. "Where Were You When You Found Out Singer Bobby Caldwell Was White?": Racialized Timbre as Narrative Arc / Schuyler Whelden.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780190637224

0190637226

OCLC:

1120796627