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GtrsRGr8 · 01-03-2016, 10:57 PM

There is a definite trend by publishers, especially ones affiliated with academic organizations, to go into the open access model (read: to giveaway their digital publications). The publisher of this book, the University of California Press, has started moving into open access. This is one of their first publications in that program.

But university presses do tend to publish specialized and esoteric items! This one fits that description, although it seems to be the least like that among UCP's current open access offerings.

Title: Instruments for New Music: Sound, Technology, and Modernism.
Formats: mobi, ePub, pdf.
Author: Thomas Patteson.
Publisher: University of California Press.
Pages: 250.
Ebook Rating/Number of Reviews (Amazon): None at Amazon; 4.00 (1) at GoodReads. The book was published just last November.
Price: $0.00.
Lowest Price at Amazon if available there: $37.53.
Book Description (Amazon):
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 technological foundations of the art. Centered in Germany during the 1920s and 1930s, the movement to create new instruments encompassed a broad spectrum of experiments, from the exploration of microtonal tunings and exotic tone colors to the ability to compose directly for automatic musical machines. This movement comprised composers, inventors, and visual artists, including Paul Hindemith, Ernst Toch, Jörg Mager, Friedrich Trautwein, László Moholy-Nagy, Walter Ruttmann, and Oskar Fischinger. Patteson’s fascinating study combines an artifact-oriented history of new music in the early twentieth century with an astute revisiting of still-relevant debates about the relationship between technology and the arts.
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GtrsRGr8 Grand Sorcerer Posts: 7,334 Karma: 27815322 Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Southeastern U.S., ya'll Device: Kindle; Kindle (10.1.1) for PC; Kindle Cloud Reader	A FREE Title for the Musically-Inclined, Courtesy of University of California Press. There is a definite trend by publishers, especially ones affiliated with academic organizations, to go into the open access model (read: to giveaway their digital publications). The publisher of this book, the University of California Press, has started moving into open access. This is one of their first publications in that program. But university presses do tend to publish specialized and esoteric items! This one fits that description, although it seems to be the least like that among UCP's current open access offerings. Title: *Instruments for New Music: Sound, Technology, and Modernism. Formats:* mobi, ePub, pdf. Author: Thomas Patteson. Publisher: University of California Press. Pages: 250. Ebook Rating/Number of Reviews (Amazon): None at Amazon; 4.00 (1) at GoodReads. The book was published just last November. Price: *$0.00. Lowest Price at Amazon if available there:* $37.53. Book Description (Amazon): 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 technological foundations of the art. Centered in Germany during the 1920s and 1930s, the movement to create new instruments encompassed a broad spectrum of experiments, from the exploration of microtonal tunings and exotic tone colors to the ability to compose directly for automatic musical machines. This movement comprised composers, inventors, and visual artists, including Paul Hindemith, Ernst Toch, Jörg Mager, Friedrich Trautwein, László Moholy-Nagy, Walter Ruttmann, and Oskar Fischinger. Patteson’s fascinating study combines an artifact-oriented history of new music in the early twentieth century with an astute revisiting of still-relevant debates about the relationship between technology and the arts. Comments: URLs: Mobi. EPub. Pdf.