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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"player piano"”.
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Sound conversations: print media, player pianos, and early radio in the United States
… focuses on two sound technologies, the player piano and radio, in two discrete case studies. Both case studies utilize a range of print media sources—from the popular Saturday Evening Post to the specialized trade magazine the Player-Piano—and center on a span of years that were …
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A Moral Being in an Aesthetic World: Being in the Early Novels of Kurt Vonnegut
… The four novels that this paper will address are Player Piano, Sirens of Titan, Slaughterhouse-Five, and Breakfast of Champions. Player Piano and Sirens of Titan are Vonnegut’s first two novels, and they approach being in terms of what Heidegger referred to as “throwness.” These initial inquiries …
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Carnivalesque Inversion: The Subversive Fiction of Kurt Vonnegut
… Kurt Vonnegut, focusing on Cat’s Cradle (1963), Player Piano (1952), and Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), through the literary theories of Mikhail Bakhtin. It concentrates on Bakhtin’s carnivalesque inversion from Rabelais and his World (1965), his theoretical perspectives on the text as a site of …
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Empty heroics, low comedy and pointless death: Structures of melancholy in the early novels of Kurt Vonnegut
… in five of Kurt Vonnegut's early novels, Player Piano, The Sirens of Titan, Mother Night, Slaughterhouse-Five and Breakfast of Champions. The thesis attempts to give new readings to each of the novels by drawing on critical approaches to melancholy and by viewing each text as being subject …
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The chandelier : an exploration in robotic musical instrument design
… of a robotic instrument to its human player in terms of mapping and translating gesture to sound. The primary project, The Chandelier, addresses both hardware and software issues, and builds directly from experience with two other works, The Marshall Field's Flower Show and Jeux Deux. …
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A brief history of re-performance
… epitomized by the early twentieth-century player piano. It begins with a discussion of nineteenth-century piano recorders and the historical role of material representation in the production of music. It continues with the advent of player pianos in the early twentieth century that allowed …
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Playing With Pianos: Print Media, Mechanization, Gender, and Change in Victorian America
… this time, print advertisements for mechanical pianos and phonographs appeared alongside ads for such familiar commodities as sheet music and acoustic instruments. These ads, the messaging they contain, and their placement within particular print publications offer a window into the changing …
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Jon Christopher Nelson’s Fantasies and Flourishes: An Interactive Concerto for Disklavier and Orchestra: A Performance Analysis
… manipulations. The Disklavier is an acoustic piano that can be played by a performer, can play by itself, or can be controlled by a computer program. In interactive works for Disklavier, a pianist plays on the Disklavier while the Disklavier plays by itself, much like if a pianist were to play …
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George Enescu's Concertstück for viola and piano: a theoretical analysis within the composer's musical legacy
… George Enescu’s Concertstück for viola and piano from the broad perspective of Enescu’s multiple facets of musicianship: composer, performer (violin, piano, conducting), and teacher. Moreover, the Romanian background (including musical education and direct knowledge of Romanian folklore) of …
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Reflecting music through movement : a body-syntonic approach to playing [with] the piano
… for the capture and reproduction of music on the piano that maintain a tight coupling between the body, the sound, and the physical instrument. For expert musicians, the body plays an indispensable role in the physical act of playing and the understanding of both musical structure and …
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Dystopia: An Ecological History
… Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), Kurt Vonnegut’s Player Piano (1952), Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 (1953), Harry Harrison’s Make Room! Make Room! (1966), John Brunner’s Stand on Zanzibar (1968), and Ursula Le Guin’s The Lathe of Heaven (1971) in conversation with trailblazing environmental texts …