Instruments for new music : sound, technology, and modernism /
Thomas Patteson.
- xii, 236 pages : illustrations, music ;
Listening to instruments -- "The joy of precision" : mechanical instruments and the aesthetics of automation -- "The alchemy of tone" : Jörg Mager and electric music -- "Sonic handwriting" : media instruments and musical inscription -- "A new, perfect musical instrument" : the trautonium and electric music in the 1930s -- The expanding instrumentarium. HKBU library
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Musical instruments. Music and technology--History. Electronic musical instruments--History. Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.