Description: The Heckelphone by Holger Hoos One hundred years of music history, from Richard Wagner to Arnold Schoenberg and beyond, narrated with a focus on the heckelphone, a rare and intriguing woodwind instrument that appears in classical operas, 1920s jazz and Hollywood films. FORMAT Hardcover CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The heckelpone is a woodwind instrument invented at the dawn of the 20th century. Inspired by Richard Wagner and prominently used by Richard Strauss, it soon rose to prominence in its native Germany and far beyond. In this book, the history and use of this curious and obscure instrument serves as a thread running through the history of music, from the romantic period to the late 1960s.From the invention and making of musical instruments to the origins of widely known and all-but-forgotten composers and their works, from New Orleans jazz to atonal music, from 19th-century Germany to 20th-century Mexico, "The Heckelphone" provides glimpses into "a past of which one has been ignorant" - a past made of music, musicians, conductors, composers, instrument makers and collectors, who all play their parts in a series of intriguing, interweaving stories, told here to educate and entertain. Author Biography Holger Hoos fell under the spell of the heckelphone as a teenager, but then had to wait for over three decades before acquiring one of the fewer than 200 specimens known to have ever existed. Meanwhile, he studied the bassoon with Benedikt Manemann, Michael Held and Heiko Dechert, but then decided to pursue an academic career in computer science, where part of his work has been on topics in computer music.He now holds an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship in Artificial Intelligence at RWTH Aachen University (Germany), as well as a professorship in machine learning at Universiteit Leiden (The Netherlands) and an adjunct professorship in computer science at the University of British Columbia (Canada). Since 2019, he studies and plays the heckelphone. Details ISBN3982621119 Author Holger Hoos Pages 402 Publisher Edition Tres Mundi Edition Description Commonwealth ed. Year 2024 ISBN-13 9783982621111 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2024-06-06 Imprint Edition Tres Mundi Subtitle A Window into the History of Music Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:160494162;
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