Tuning The World : The Rise of 440 Hertz In Music, Science, and Politics, 1859–1955.

Tuning The World : The Rise of 440 Hertz In Music, Science, and Politics, 1859–1955.

Gribenski, Fanny.

(New Material Histories of Music)

Univ. Chicago Press  ©2023

The author explores archival sources to tell the long history of how A 440 became accepted as the standard pitch, culminating in its adoption at a 1939 international conference. With an introduction, notes, and index. Illustrations.

x, 267 p.; 24 cm.
Cloth

Language: English
ISBN: 0226823261
ISBN13: 9780226823263

Tuning The World : The Rise of 440 Hertz In Music, Science, and Politics, 1859–1955.

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