Absolute music, mechanical reproduction

Absolute music, mechanical reproduction /

Show other versions (1)

Recordings are now the primary way we hear classical music, especially the more abstract styles of "absolute" instrumental music. In this original, provocative book, Arved Ashby argues that recording technology has transformed our understanding of art music. Contesting the laments of nosta...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: Ashby, Arved Mark
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2010
Subjects:
Gould, Glenn > Criticism and interpretation.
Schnabel, Artur, > 1882-1951 > Criticism and interpretation.
Absolute music.
Sound recordings > Social aspects.
Music > Philosophy and aesthetics.
Performance practice (Music) > History > 20th century.
Music and technology.
Sound > Recording and reproducing > Digital techniques.
MP3 (Audio coding standard) > Social aspects.
dissertations.
Academic theses.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • The recorded musical text
  • Recording, repetition, and memory in absolute music
  • Schnabel's rationalism, Gould's pragmatism
  • Digital mythologies
  • Beethoven and the iPod Nation
  • Photo/phono/porno
  • Mahler as imagist.

Similar Items