Oxford Handbook of Timbre

by Alexander Rehding and Emily I Dolan

Despite its importance as a central feature of musical sounds, timbre has rarely stood in the limelight. First defined in the eighteenth century, denigrated during the nineteenth, the concept of timbre came into its own during the twentieth century and its fascination with synthesizers and electronic music-or so the story goes. But in fact, timbre cuts across all the boundaries that make up musical thought-combining scientific and artistic approaches...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190637226
• ISBN13: 9780190637224
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 740 Pages
• Weight: 3.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 7.1" x 10.0"