Instruments and the electronic age : toward a terminology for a unified description of playing technique / Tellef Kvifte.
| Author/creator | Kvifte, Tellef |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | [Norway] : Solum Forlag ; Atlantic Highlands, N.J. : Distributed throughout North America and Japan by Humanities Press International, 1989, ©1988. |
| Description | v, 198 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction. The new challenge to classification ; The challenge of traditional instruments ; Why describe playing technique? ; The organization of this book ; The empirical basis -- Instrument classification. General ; Standard classification ; Victor Mahillon ; Galpin's first system ; The Sachs/Hornbostel system ; Andre Schaeffner's ; Galpin's second system ; Tobias Norlind's system ; Kurt Reinhard's system ; Montagu and Burton's system ; The descriptive systems ; Hans-Heinz Drager's system ; Heyde's system ; Lysloff/Matson: sound producers and MSA -- Classification systems and frames of reference. Classification is comparison ; Comparison of what? ; Typology, classification and frames of reference ; Alternative groupings ; The problem of permanent hierarchies ; Criteria without mutually exclusive categories ; What do the criteria concern? ; The relationship between performer and instrument ; Concerning musical sound and physical sound -- A frame of reference for the study of playing technique. Introduction ; Concerning the definition of playing technique ; Playing technique as a meaningful activity ; The description of the sound ; The instrument ; Units of analysis ; Playing technique as an activity -- The study of playing technique. Types of knowledge ; The researcher's concepts and the performer's concepts ; Etic categories for the description of musical sound ; Variables and levels of measurement ; The concepts of analog and digital -- Music theory. The connection between the music and the instrument ; Pitch ; Duration ; Ornamentation ; Concepts associated with musical instruments ; Notation -- On images and representations. An example ; Translations between images ; On representations ; Internal and external representations ; Informational equivalence ; Types of representations ; Characteristics of the different representations ; On the interaction between different types of representation -- Instrument control. Introduction ; Descriptions of the instruments ; Description of control actions and control organs ; Formalization of instrument control ; Coupling: on instrument control and sound variables ; Types of movement and sound variables ; On control after attack ; Degree of control ; Organization of domains -- The new instruments. Introduction ; Playing organs and instrument definition organs ; Common typology ; Basic principles for subtractive synthesis ; The emic description of a synthesizer ; What makes synthesizers so special? ; New representations -- Epilogue I, "Integrated instruments" -- Epilog II, The historical perspective. |
| General note | Distributor from label on title page verso. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN | 8256006250 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Music | Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk | ML460 .K85 1989 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |