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With essays covering an array of topics including ancient Homeric texts, contemporary sound installations, violin mutes, birdsong, and cochlear implants, this volume reveals the richness of what it means to think and talk about timbre and the materiality of the experience of sound.

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With essays covering an array of topics including ancient Homeric texts, contemporary sound installations, violin mutes, birdsong, and cochlear implants, this volume reveals the richness of what it means to think and talk about timbre and the materiality of the experience of sound.
Autorenporträt
Emily I. Dolan is an Associate Professor of Music at Brown University, and specializes in late Enlightenment and early Romantic music and aesthetics. She is the author of The Orchestral Revolution: Haydn and the Technologies of Timbre, published by Cambridge University Press in 2013 and is working on her second book, Instruments and Order. Alexander Rehding teaches music theory at Harvard University. He specializes in the music of the nineteenth century, history of music theory, and media theory. His publications include Hugo Riemann and the Birth of Modern Musical Thought (2003), Music and Monumentality (2009), and Beethoven's Ninth Symphony (2017). He is editor-in-chief of the Oxford Handbooks Online in Music and series editor for a forthcoming six-volume Cultural History of Music.