Details

Subject(s)

• Tone color (Music) [Browse]

Editor

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

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

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Other title(s)

Timbre

ISBN

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

OCLC

1267761056

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