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Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
From award-winning author Annette Bay Pimentel comes an oversize nonfiction picture book exploring how music and musical instruments are made-across time and around the world
Music doesn't come out of nothing.
It always starts somewhere...
with something...
with someone.
Discover how music is made in this survey of musical instruments from around the world. Organized by material-from wood to gourds to found objects and more-Before Music marries...
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Player pianos, radio-electric circuits, gramophone records, and optical sound film-these were the cutting-edge acoustic technologies of the early twentieth century, and for many musicians and artists of the time, these devices were also the implements of a musical revolution. Instruments for New Music traces a diffuse network of cultural agents who shared the belief that a truly modern music could be attained only through a radical challenge to the...