Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-228) and index.
Contents:
Listening to instruments -- "The joy of precision": mechanical instruments and the aesthetics of automation -- "The alchemy of tone": Jörg Mager and electric music -- "Sonic handwriting": media instruments and musical inscription -- "A new, perfect musical instrument": the trautonium and electric music in the 1930s -- The expanding instrumentarium.
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