Measure - In Pursuit of Musical Time

Follows the fascinating story of musical timekeeping, beginning in an age before the existence of external measuring devices and continuing to the present-day use of the Smartphone app.

List of contents

Introduction
HANDS
1 Hand and Heart
2 Motion and Rest
PENDULUMS
3 A Logically Ordered Universe
4 A Line, a Weight and a Nail
5 Court and Académie
6 New Systems
7 Curiosities and Chronometers
8 Revolutionary Minds
9 Clockwork
10 Hammers, Dials and Barrels
METRONOMES
11 Winkel's Prototype
12 Maelzel's Metronome
13 Composer's Calibrations
14 An Incomparable Lack of Judgement
15 New Currents
16 Metronome Sense
Afterword: Last Object
Works Cited

About the author

MARC D. MOSKOVITZ is the author of Alexander Zemlinsky: A Lyric Symphony and co-author of Beethoven's Cello: Five Revolutionary Sonatas and Their World, both published by the Boydell Press. He has contributed program notes to orchestras and opera houses in the United States, Germany, Spain and China and entries for The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. A dedicated teacher and performer, Moskovitz also serves as principal cellist of the ProMusica Columbus Chamber Orchestra.

Product details

• Authors: Marc D Moskovitz, Marc D. Moskovitz, Marc D. (Customer) Moskovitz
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2022
• EAN: 9781783276615
• ISBN: 978-1-78327-661-5
• No. of pages: 342
• Dimensions: 142 mm x 220 mm x 37 mm
• Weight: 590 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Mechanics, acoustics