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This cross-disciplinary volume illuminates the history of early phonography from a transnational perspective, recovering the myriad sites, knowledge practices, identities and discourses which dynamically shaped early recording cultures. With case studies from China, Australia, the United States, Latin America, Russia, Sweden, Germany, Spain, Portugal, France, and Italy, Phonographic Encounters explores moments of interaction and encounter, as well as tensions, between local and global understandings of recording technologies. Drawing on an array of archival sources often previously unavailable in English, it moves beyond western-centric narratives of early phonography and beyond the strict confines of the recording industry. Contributions from media history, musicology, popular music studies, cultural studies, area studies and the history of science and technology make this book a key and innovative resource for understanding early phonography against the backdrop of colonial and global power relations.

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Tuning, Timbre, Spectrum, Scale focuses on perceptions ofconsonance and dissonance, and how these are dependent on timbre. This alsorelates to musical scale: certain timbres sound more consonant in some scalesthan others. Sensory consonance and the ability to measure it have importantimplications for the design of audio devices and for musical theory andanalysis. Applications include methods of adapting sounds for arbitrary scales,ways to specify scales for nonharmonic sounds, and techniques of soundmanipulation based on maximizing (or minimizing) consonance. Specialconsideration is given here to a new method of adaptive tuning that canautomatically adjust the tuning of a piece based its timbral character so as tominimize dissonance. Audio examples illustrating the ideas presented areprovided for free on the Springer Extras website (http://extras.springer.com). Thisunique analysis of sound and scale will be of interest to physicists andengineers working in acoustics, as well as to musicians and psychologists .

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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 nostalgic critics, Ashby sees recordings as socially progressive and instruments of a musical vernacular, but also finds that recording and absolute music actually involve similar notions of removing sound from context. He takes stock of technology's impact on classical music, addressing the questions at the heart of the issue. This erudite yet concise study reveals how mechanical reproduction has transformed classical musical culture and the very act of listening, breaking down aesthetic and generational barriers and mixing classical music into the soundtrack of everyday life.

MP3 (Audio coding standard) --- Sound --- Music and technology. --- Performance practice (Music) --- Music --- Sound recordings --- Absolute music. --- MPEG Audio Layer 3 (Audio coding standard) --- Digital audio --- Digital sound recording --- Digital electronics --- Technology and music --- Technology --- Hermeneutics (Music) --- Musical aesthetics --- Aesthetics --- Music theory --- Audio discs --- Audio recordings --- Audiorecordings --- Discs, Audio --- Discs, Sound --- Disks, Sound --- Phonodiscs --- Phonograph records --- Phonorecords --- Recordings, Audio --- Recordings, Sound --- Records, Phonograph --- Records, Sound --- Sound discs --- Audio-visual materials --- Abstract music --- Social aspects. --- Recording and reproducing --- Digital techniques. --- History --- Philosophy and aesthetics. --- Digital techniques --- Standards --- Philosophy --- Philosophy and aesthetics --- Schnabel, Artur, --- Gould, Glenn --- Schnabel, Arthur, --- Gūrudo, G. --- Gūrudo, Guren --- Gould, Glenn, --- Gold, Glen --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Absolute music --- Music and technology --- Acoustics --- Continuum mechanics --- Mathematical physics --- Physics --- Pneumatics --- Radiation --- Wave-motion, Theory of --- Social aspects --- Recording and reproducing&delete& --- Gould, Glenn Herbert, --- Gulʹd, Glen, --- 78.85 --- 78.81 --- 78.77.9 --- 78.86.2 --- 78.29.1 --- absolute instrumental music. --- aesthetics. --- art music. --- classical music. --- contemporary world. --- historical. --- listening to music. --- live arts. --- mechanical reproduction. --- music criticism. --- music critics. --- music historians. --- music history. --- music recordings. --- music scholars. --- music. --- musical contexts. --- musical culture. --- musicology. --- nonfiction. --- performing arts. --- recording technology. --- recordings and sound. --- socially progressive. --- students and teachers.