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Music and the forms of life / Lawrence Kramer.

"Inventors in the age of the Enlightenment created lifelike androids capable of playing music on real instruments. The Android's Flute examines the link between such simulated life and music, which began in the era's scientific literature and extended into a series of famous musical w...

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Online Access: Full Text (via De Gruyter)
Main Author: Kramer, Lawrence, 1946- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022]
Subjects:
Music > Philosophy and aesthetics > History > 19th century.
Music and technology > History > 19th century.
Music and technology.
Music > Philosophy and aesthetics.
1800-1899
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : music and the life of statues
  • From clockwork to pulsation I : intensity and drive
  • From clockwork to pulsation II : action and feeling
  • From clockwork to pulsation III : metabolism
  • Overtures : Wellington's victory and live action
  • "Dear Listener" ... music and the invention of subjectivity
  • Waltzing specters : life, perception, and Ravel's "La Valse"
  • The musical biome
  • Epilogue : sound and the forms of life.

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