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Author: hpadi
Date: 2007-10-13 05:01
Is someone out here in this great forum aware of the existence of a book that will tell the evolution of music? An example. How the staff became? How the notes were name before the DO RE Mi etc or the ABCD and so on. How about the symbols and different notations? How about the 440 Hz How this was discovered and who discovered? I am not looking for a simple explanation like the Sound of Music (beautiful movie by the way) or common sense explanations.
I am looking for something deeper, with substance. This request may all sound funny or ridiculous for some people but after I started to learn to play the clarinet and be able to play it considerably, well I find my self in love with music. Having the ability to produce a sound that when orderly played it produces a beautiful and perhaps meaningful sound, melody or what ever you want it to be called. Is life and it makes you alive.
Anyway, if anyone has such information I will appreciate the sharing.
Thank you,
Henry Padilla
Post Edited (2007-10-13 05:04)
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Author: GBK
Date: 2007-10-13 06:19
Most college students who studied the history of music and its earliest forms used one of the two standard texts:
A History of Music and Musical Style by Homer Ulrich, Paul A. Pisk
New York, New York, U.S.A., Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (1963) ISBN 0-15-537720-5
History of Western Music by Donald Jay Grout
New York, W.W Norton & Company, Inc.
ISBN-13: 9780393979916
Both are full of excellent information, with the Ulrich and Pisk book getting my first choice for its concise work on the earliest musical forms originating in the Far East, Near East, Greece and Rome. The book is out of print but many used copies are available.
...GBK
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Author: BobD
Date: 2007-10-13 13:17
Another book indispensible to anyone trying to learn about music is "Fundamentals of Musical Acoustics", by Arthur H. Benade. Available from Dover books for a modest price.
Bob Draznik
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Author: GBK
Date: 2007-10-13 13:31
DavidBlumberg wrote:
> The Grout book is also a great cure for insomnia....
As attested by the numerous "all-nighters" I had to endure, studying for music lit exams. ![[wink]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smilie3.gif) ...GBK
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2007-10-13 14:06
YUP- lots of info "out there", perhaps a bit dull ?? I like the Groves "Dictionary" 20 volumes I believe [ in libraries], and Sachs "History of Musical Insts.", also Baines etc,etc ----. Good reading ! Don
Thanx, Mark, Don
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Author: bahamutofskycon
Date: 2007-10-13 16:06
As a recent graduate I would say the the Grout book is fine but the Ulrich book is probably better (I skimmed through it at the library).
Groves Dictionary of Music and Musicians (as Don mentioned) is probably the best single resource for what you're looking for. Find a library that has it and start delving in.
Steve Ballas
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Author: rtmyth
Date: 2007-10-13 17:50
These are technical tomes: Science and Music, by Sir James Jeans. Music, Physics, and Engineering, by Harry Olson. Clarinet Acoustics, by Lee Gibson.
richard smith
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Author: hpadi
Date: 2007-10-14 04:55
I want to thank you all for the great information provided to me. Indeed, I feel like harvesting from a great vintage. Again thank you all.
Grateful,
Henry Padilla
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Author: Bennett ★2017
Date: 2007-10-15 21:20
The Grove Dictionary is available online as well as in print. Check with your local public library; many larger ones subscribe to it.
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