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Author : Harvey N. Roehl
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (475 download)
Download or read book Player Pianos and Music Boxes written by Harvey N. Roehl and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1540073564
Total Pages : 9 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Music Box Dancer Piano Solo written by and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Piano Solo Sheets). A beautiful piano solo arrangement of this standard classic.
Author : Q. David Bowers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1008 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (475 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Automatic Musical Instruments written by Q. David Bowers and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 1008 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brian Dolan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0742564614
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (425 download)
Download or read book Inventing Entertainment written by Brian Dolan and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2009-01-16 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brian Dolan's social and cultural history of the music business in relation to the history of the player piano is a critical chapter in the story of contemporary life. The player piano made the American music industry-and American music itself-modern. For years, Tin Pan Alley composers and performers labored over scores for quick ditties destined for the vaudeville circuit or librettos destined for the Broadway stage. But, the introduction of the player piano in the early 1900s, transformed Tin Pan Alley's guild of composers, performers, and theater owners into a music industry. The player piano, with its perforated music rolls that told the pianos what key to strike, changed musical performance because it made a musical piece standard, repeatable, and easy rather than something laboriously learned. It also created a national audience because the music that was played in New Orleans or Kansas City could also be played in New York or Missoula, as new music (ragtime) and dance (fox-trot) styles crisscrossed the continent along with the player piano's music rolls. By the 1920s, only automobile sales exceeded the amount generated by player pianos and their music rolls. Consigned today to the realm of collectors and technological arcane, the player piano was a moving force in American music and American life.
Author : Arthur W. J. G. Ord-Hume
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Player Piano written by Arthur W. J. G. Ord-Hume and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "'Player-Piano' tells for the first time the fascinating story of the mechanical piano from earliest times up to the heyday of the instrument in the 1930s. Never before has this story been related, although the end of the player-piano is certainly still within the living memory of most of us and many hundreds of these devices are still to be found in our homes. In addition to telling the story of the development of these pianos which strove to produce perfect music without the need for skills on the part of the 'performer', this book sets out in copious detail exactly how these complex mechanisms work. For the owner of an instrument, step by step instructions for the restoration and preservation of both the early barrel-playing pianos and the most sophisticated player and reproducing instruments are given. To fully illustrate their development, design and mechanical processes, no less than 112 plates and 110 long drawings are included."--Jacket.
Author : Harvey N. Roehl
Publisher : Vestal, N.Y : Vestal Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Player Piano Treasury written by Harvey N. Roehl and published by Vestal, N.Y : Vestal Press. This book was released on 1961 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vestal Press
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (851 download)
Download or read book Catalog #18 written by Vestal Press and published by . This book was released on 198? with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Allison Rebecca Wente
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000553124
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Player Piano and Musical Labor written by Allison Rebecca Wente and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-06-14 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the early 20th century the machine aesthetic was a well-established and dominant interest that fundamentally transformed musical performance and listening practices. While numerous scholars have examined this aesthetic in art and literature, musical compositions representing industrialized labor practices and the role of the machine in music remain largely unexplored. Moreover, in recounting the history of machines in musical recording and reproduction, scholars often tend to emphasize the phonograph, rather than player piano, despite the latter’s prominence within the newly established musical marketplace. Machines and their music influenced multiple areas of early 20th-century musical culture, from film scores to popular music and even the concert hall. But the opposite was also true: industrialized labor practices changed the musical marketplace and musical culture as a whole. As consumers accepted mechanical replacements for what previously required an active human laborer, ghostly, mechanical performers labored tirelessly in parlors, businesses, and even concert halls. Although the player piano failed to maintain a stronghold in the recorded music marketplace after 1930, the widespread acceptance of recording technologies as media for storing and enjoying music indicates a much more fundamental societal shift. This book explores that shift, examining the rise and fall of the player piano in early 20th-century society and connecting it to the digital technologies of today.
Author : Larry Givens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258818173
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (181 download)
Download or read book Rebuilding the Player Piano written by Larry Givens and published by . This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Instructions On How To Rebuild The Player Piano And Related Instruments.
Author : William Braid White
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Player-piano Up-to-date ... written by William Braid White and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Q. David Bowers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1038 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Automatic Musical Instruments written by Q. David Bowers and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 1038 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is truly the bible on automatic music machines.
Author : Annik LaFarge
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501188712
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Chasing Chopin written by Annik LaFarge and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A modern take on a classical icon: this original, entertaining, well-researched book uses the story of when, where, and how Chopin composed his most famous work, uncovering many surprises along the way and showing how his innovative music still animates popular culture centuries later. The Frédéric Chopin Annik LaFarge presents here is not the melancholy, sickly, romantic figure so often portrayed. The artist she discovered is, instead, a purely independent spirit: an innovator who created a new musical language, an autodidact who became a spiritually generous, trailblazing teacher, a stalwart patriot during a time of revolution and exile. In Chasing Chopin she follows in his footsteps during the three years, 1837–1840, when he composed his iconic “Funeral March”—dum dum da dum—using its composition story to illuminate the key themes of his life: a deep attachment to his Polish homeland; his complex relationship with writer George Sand; their harrowing but consequential sojourn on Majorca; the rapidly developing technology of the piano, which enabled his unique tone and voice; social and political revolution in 1830s Paris; friendship with other artists, from the famous Eugène Delacroix to the lesser known, yet notorious in his time, Marquis de Custine. Each of these threads—musical, political, social, personal—is woven through the “Funeral March” in Chopin’s Opus 35 sonata, a melody so famous it’s known around the world even to people who know nothing about classical music. But it is not, as LaFarge discovered, the piece of music we think we know. As part of her research into Chopin’s world, then and now, LaFarge visited piano makers, monuments, churches, and archives; she talked to scholars, jazz musicians, video game makers, software developers, music teachers, theater directors, and of course dozens of pianists. The result is extraordinary: an engrossing, page-turning work of musical discovery and an artful portrayal of a man whose work and life continue to inspire artists and cultural innovators in astonishing ways. A companion website, WhyChopin, presents links to each piece of music mentioned in the book, organized by chapter in the order in which it appears, along with photos, resources, videos, and more.
Author : Kevin McElhone
Publisher : Shire Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780747805786
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (57 download)
Download or read book Mechanical Music written by Kevin McElhone and published by Shire Publications. This book was released on 2008-03-04 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers the history, development, use and fall from favour of many types of exotic instruments, from pocket-sized musical boxes to roll-playing pipe organs and everything else in between. This book describes pianolas, organettes, roller organs, orchestrions, nickelodeons, carillons and more.
Author : Kurt Vonnegut
Publisher : Dial Press
ISBN 13 : 0307568083
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)
Download or read book Player Piano written by Kurt Vonnegut and published by Dial Press. This book was released on 2009-09-30 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A funny, savage appraisal of a totally automated American society of the future.”—San Francisco Chronicle Kurt Vonnegut’s first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way to live in a world dominated by a supercomputer and run completely by machines. Paul’s rebellion is vintage Vonnegut—wildly funny, deadly serious, and terrifyingly close to reality. Praise for Player Piano “An exuberant, crackling style . . . Vonnegut is a black humorist, fantasist and satirist, a man disposed to deep and comic reflection on the human dilemma.”—Life “His black logic . . . gives us something to laugh about and much to fear.”—The New York Times Book Review
Author : Vestal Press
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (224 download)
Download or read book The Vestal Press written by Vestal Press and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alfred Dolge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Pianos and Their Makers written by Alfred Dolge and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vestal Press
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (224 download)
Download or read book The Vestal Press Books and Manuals on Pianos, Player Pianos, Music Boxes, Bicycles, Slot Machines, Juke Boxes, Railroads, Theatre Organs, Phonographs, Old Cars, Carousels, Records and Tapes written by Vestal Press and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
