Valved brasses
the history of an invention
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Author
Publication
2008 - Pendragon Press, Hillsdale, NY, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
33,750 words, Guess
Page Count
135 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivevalvedbrasseshis0000ahre
- ISBN-139781576471371
- ISBN-101576471373
- LibraryThing8038429
- Library of Congress Control Number2008011745
and 3 more
- OCLC Control Number213846139
- Better World Books9781576471371
- Open LibraryOL16725832M
Classifications
- DDC788.9/1922
- LCCML933 .A3713 2008
- LCCML933.A3713 2008
Description
In the history of brass instruments, few developments can rival the early nineteenth-century invention of the valve for enduring significance. Nevertheless, the acceptance of valved brass instruments proved controversial, as newspapers and other documents repeatedly attest. Christian Ahrens (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) in his important monograph, Eine Erfindung und ihre Folgen: Blechblasinstrumente mit Ventilen (1986), devotes considerable attention to this heated controversy, as he traces the early use of valved brass instruments in the realms of art music, military music, and Volksmusik. Stressing social and aesthetic issues over the more familiar mechanical aspects, the author draws on a rich body of journalistic source material to detail a compelling reception history [Publisher description]
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