Dolan, Emily I. - The Oxford Handbook of Timbre

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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CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION
1. Timbre: Alternative Histories and Possible Futures for the Study of Music
Emily I. Dolan and Alexander Rehding
PART I PHILOSOPHIES
2. The Matter of Timbre: Listening, Genealogy, and Sound
Daniel Villegas Velez
3. Deconstruction and Timbre
Naomi Waltham-Smith
4. Timbrality: The Vibrant Aesthetics of Tone Color
Isabella van Elferen
5. Qur'an Alphabetics and the Timbre of Recitation
Peter McMurray
6. Translations: Adorno and Dahlhaus
6.1. Introduction
Thomas Patteson
6.2. The Function of Timbre in Music (1966)
Theodor W. Adorno, translated by Thomas Patteson
6.3. On the Theory of Instrumentation (1985)
Carl Dahlhaus, translated by Thomas Patteson
PART II HISTORIES AND CULTURES
7. Ethereal Timbres
Emily I. Dolan and Thomas Patteson
8. Timbre-Centered Listening in the Soundscape of Tuva
Theodore Levin and Valentina Suzukei
9. Tracing Timbre in Ancient Greece
Naomi Weiss
10. Early Modern Voices
Bettina Varwig
11. Timbre Before Timbre: Listening to the Effects of Organ Stops, Violin Mutes, and Piano Pedals, c. 1650-1800
Deirdre Loughridge
12. Schoenberg as Sound Student: Pierrot's Klang
Joseph Auner
13. Futurist Timbres: Listening Failure in Milan
Gavin Williams
PART III TECHNOLOGIES
14. Timbral Thievery: Synthesizers and Sonic Materiality
Jonathan De Souza
15. Timbre/Techne
Alexander Rehding
16. Technology and Timbre: Features of the Changing Instrumental Soundscape of the Long Nineteenth Century (1789-1914)
Elizabeth Bradley Strauchen-Scherer
17. Don't Choose the Nightingale: Respighi, Mimesis, and the Limits of Timbre
Arman Schwartz
18. The Naturalization of Timbre: Two Case Studies
Alexandra Hui
19. Music for Cochlear Implants
Stefan Helmreich
PART IV PERCEPTION AND ANALYSIS
20. Perceptual Processes in Orchestration
Meghan Goodchild and Stephen McAdams
21. Timbre as Harmony-Harmony as Timbre
Robert Hasegawa
22. Timbre and Polyphony in Balinese Gamelan
Michael Tenzer
23. Describing Sound: the Cognitive Linguistics of Timbre
Zachary Wallmark and Roger A. Kendall
24. Timbre, Komplexeindruck, and modernity: Klangfarbe as a Catalyst of Psychological Research in Carl Stumpf, 1890-1926
Sebastian Klotz
25. Pitch vs. Timbre
Daniel K. S. Walden
26. Where Were You When You Found Out Singer Bobby Caldwell Was White?: Racialized Timbre as Narrative Arc
Nina Sun Eidsheim and Schuyler Whelden

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