Details

Subject(s)

• Tone color (Music)—Handbooks, manuals, etc [Browse]

Editor

• Dolan, Emily I. [Browse]
• Rehding, Alexander [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Handbooks and manuals [Browse]

Series

Oxford handbooks online. [More in this series]

Frequency

Monthly

Summary note

Elusive, timbre has long elicited by turns frustration and fascination. Dismissed as a secondary parameter, decried as mere sensuous surface, and deconstructed as a non-hierarchical quality beset with paradoxes, timbre has traditionally evaded straightforward classification, analysis, and definition. Recent scholarship has begun to embrace timbre in all of its rich messiness, and this volume demonstrates how a focus on timbre can reorganize the field of sound. Spanning an enormous range of sonic expressions-from Tuvan throat singing to R&B, from Homeric recitations to cochlear implants-this innovative collection puts the spotlight on timbre in its historical, philosophical, technological, and cognitive dimensions, and offers suggestions for further study.

Notes

Also issued in print: 2018.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 8, 2021).

Contents

• Introduction.
• Timbre : Alternative Histories and Possible Futures for the Study of Music / Emily I. Dolan and Alexander Rehding
• Part I. Philosophies. The Matter of Timbre : Listening, Genealogy, Sound / Daniel Villegas Vélez
• Deconstruction and Timbre / Naomi Waltham-Smith
• Timbrality : The Vibrant Aesthetics of Tone Color / Isabella van Elferen
• Qur'an Alphabetics and the Timbre of Recitation / Peter McMurray
• Translations : Adorno and Dahlhaus / Thomas Patteson
• The Function of Timbre in Music (1966) / Theodor W. Adorno
• On the Theory of Instrumentation (1985) / Carl Dahlhaus
• Part II. Histories and Cultures.
• Ethereal Timbres / Emily I. Dolan and Thomas Patteson
• Timbre-Centered Listening in the Soundscape of Tuva / Theodore Levin and Valentina Süzükei
• Tracing Timbre in Ancient Greece / Naomi Weiss
• Early Modern Voices / Bettina Varwig
• Timbre Before Timbre : Listening to the Effects of Organ Stops, Violin Mutes and Piano Pedals c. 1650-1800 / Deirdre Loughridge
• Schoenberg as Sound Student : Pierrot's Klang / Joseph Auner
• Futurist Timbres : Listening Failure in Milan, 1909-1914 / Gavin Williams
• Part III. Technologies.
• Timbral Thievery : Synthesizers and Sonic Materiality / Jonathan De Souza
• Timbre/Techne / Alexander Rehding
• Technology and Timbre : Features of the Changing Instrumental Soundscape of the Long Nineteenth Century (1789-1914) / Elizabeth Bradley Strauchen-Scherer
• Don't Choose the Nightingale : Timbre, Index, and Birdsong in Respighi's "Pini di Roma" / Arman Schwartz
• The Naturalization of Timbre : Two Case Studies / Alexandra Hui
• Music for Cochlear Implants / Stefan Helmreich
• Part IV. Perception and Analysis. Perceptual Processes in Orchestration / Meghan Goodchild and Stephen McAdams
• Timbre as Harmony--Harmony as Timbre / Robert Hasegawa
• Timbre and Polyphony in Balinese Gamelan / Michael Tenzer
• Describing Sound : the Cognitive Linguistics of Timbre / Zachary Wallmark and Roger A. Kendall
• Timbre, Komplexeindruck, and Modernity : Klangfarbe as a Catalyst of Psychological Research in Carl Stumpf, 1890-1926 / Sebastian Klotz
• Pitch vs. Timbre / Daniel K. S. Walden
• "Where Were You When You Found Out Singer Bobby Caldwell Was White?" : Racialized Timbre as Narrative Arc / Nina Sun Eidsheim and Schuyler Whelden.

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Other title(s)

• Handbook of timbre
• Timbre

ISBN

• 9780190637255
• 0190637250
• 9780190637248
• 0190637242
• 9780190637231
• 0190637234

OCLC

1267761056

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