[PDF] The Spectral Piano eBook

Author : Marilyn Nonken
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 23,35 MB
Release : 2014-03-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 1107018544

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Marilyn Nonken finds precedent in the works of pianist-composers Liszt, Scriabin and Debussy for spectral attitudes towards the musical experience.

Author : Marilyn Nonken
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 22,44 MB
Release : 2014-03-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 1139916114

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The most influential compositional movement of the past fifty years, spectralism was informed by digital technology but also extended the aesthetics of pianist-composers such as Franz Liszt, Alexander Scriabin and Claude Debussy. Students of Olivier Messiaen such as Tristan Murail and Gérard Grisey sought to create a cooperative committed to exploring the evolution of timbre in time as a basis for the musical experience. In The Spectral Piano, Marilyn Nonken shows how the spectral attitude was influenced by developments in technology but also continued a tradition of performative and compositional virtuosity. Nonken explores shared fascinations with the musical experience, which united spectralists with their Romantic and early Modern predecessors. Examining Murail's Territoires de l'oubli, Jonathan Harvey's Tombeau de Messiaen, Joshua Fineberg's Veils, and Edmund Campion's A Complete Wealth of Time, she reveals how spectral concerns relate not only to the past but also to contemporary developments in philosophical aesthetics.

Author : Marilyn Nonken
Publisher :
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 42,79 MB
Release : 2014-05-10
Category : Piano music
ISBN : 9781139921978

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Marilyn Nonken finds precedent in the works of pianist-composers Liszt, Scriabin and Debussy for spectral attitudes towards the musical experience.

Author : Douglas James Blackley
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,42 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Composition (Music)
ISBN :

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The Spectral Piano project consists of two parts: the conception, design and physical creation of the Spectral Piano as an instrument, and the composition of a suite of music for it. An apparatus was created to allow direct electromagnetic excitation of 24 strings, producing very different timbres and dynamic envelopes than the conventional hammer driven piano string offers. The spectral piano may simultaneously and uniquely address any spectral component of each excited string. The ability to bend pitch, shimmer, pulse, and simultaneously create multiple pitches and timbres is possible. For the performance, music was composed which contrasts conventional piano with spectral piano in works compositionally linked in a variety of ways.

Author : David M. Koenig
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 35,9 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Music
ISBN : 0198722907

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In this book the tools of spectral analysis are applied via graphics to musical sounds, especially those coming from a piano, with emphasis on the visualization of musical sounds rather than the mathematics behind it. The aim is to give a different and insightful view of musical instruments.