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Tuning the World: The Rise of 440 Hertz in Music, Science, and Politics, 1859–1955 (New Material Histories of Music) - Tapa dura

Gribenski, Fanny

 
9780226823263: Tuning the World: The Rise of 440 Hertz in Music, Science, and Politics, 1859–1955 (New Material Histories of Music)
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ISBN 10: 0226823261 ISBN 13: 9780226823263
Editorial: University of Chicago Press, 2023

Sinopsis

Tuning the World tells the unknown story of how the musical pitch A 440 became the global norm.

Now commonly accepted as the point of reference for musicians in the Western world, A 440 hertz only became the standard pitch during an international conference held in 1939. The adoption of this norm was the result of decades of negotiations between countries, involving a diverse group of performers, composers, diplomats, physicists, and sound engineers. Although there is widespread awareness of the variability of musical pitches over time, as attested by the use of lower frequencies to perform early music repertoires, no study has fully explained the invention of our current concert pitch. In this book, Fanny Gribenski draws on a rich variety of previously unexplored archival sources and a unique combination of musicological perspectives, transnational history, and science studies to tell the unknown story of how A 440 became the global norm. Tuning the World demonstrates the aesthetic, scientific, industrial, and political contingencies underlying the construction of one of the most “natural” objects of contemporary musical performance and shows how this century-old effort was ultimately determined by the influence of a few powerful nations.

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Fanny Gribenski is assistant professor of music at New York University. She is the author of one book in French, L’Église comme lieu de concert.

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Editorial
University of Chicago Press
Año de publicación
2023
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0226823261
ISBN 13 
9780226823263
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Número de páginas
280
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