The Oxford Handbook of Timbre

INTRODUCTION 1. Timbre: Alternative Histories and Possible Futures for the Study of Music Emily I. Dolan and Alexander Rehding PART I PHILOSOPHIES 2. The Matter of Timbre: Listening, Genealogy, and Sound Daniel Villegas Vélez 3. Deconstruction and Timbre Naomi Waltham-Smith 4. Timbrality: The Vibrant Aesthetics of Tone Color Isabella van Elferen 5. Qur'an Alphabetics and the Timbre of Recitation Peter McMurray 6. Translations: Adorno and Dahlhaus 6.1. Introduction Thomas Patteson 6.2. The Function of Timbre in Music (1966) Theodor W. Adorno, translated by Thomas Patteson 6.3. On the Theory of Instrumentation (1985) Carl Dahlhaus, translated by Thomas Patteson PART II HISTORIES AND CULTURES 7. Ethereal Timbres Emily I. Dolan and Thomas Patteson 8. Timbre-Centered Listening in the Soundscape of Tuva Theodore Levin and Valentina Süzükei 9. Tracing Timbre in Ancient Greece Naomi Weiss 10. Early Modern Voices Bettina Varwig 11. Timbre Before Timbre: Listening to the Effects of Organ Stops, Violin Mutes, and Piano Pedals, c. 1650-1800 Deirdre Loughridge 12. Schoenberg as Sound Student: Pierrot's Klang Joseph Auner 13. Futurist Timbres: Listening Failure in Milan Gavin Williams PART III TECHNOLOGIES 14. Timbral Thievery: Synthesizers and Sonic Materiality Jonathan De Souza 15. Timbre/Techne Alexander Rehding 16. Technology and Timbre: Features of the Changing Instrumental Soundscape of the Long Nineteenth Century (1789-1914) Elizabeth Bradley Strauchen-Scherer 17. Don't Choose the Nightingale: Respighi, Mimesis, and the Limits of Timbre Arman Schwartz 18. The Naturalization of Timbre: Two Case Studies Alexandra Hui 19. Music for Cochlear Implants Stefan Helmreich PART IV PERCEPTION AND ANALYSIS 20. Perceptual Processes in Orchestration Meghan Goodchild and Stephen McAdams 21. Timbre as Harmony-Harmony as Timbre Robert Hasegawa 22. Timbre and Polyphony in Balinese Gamelan Michael Tenzer 23. Describing Sound: the Cognitive Linguistics of Timbre Zachary Wallmark and Roger A. Kendall 24. Timbre, Komplexeindruck, and modernity: Klangfarbe as a Catalyst of Psychological Research in Carl Stumpf, 1890-1926 Sebastian Klotz 25. Pitch vs. Timbre Daniel K. S. Walden 26. "Where Were You When You Found Out Singer Bobby Caldwell Was White?": Racialized Timbre as Narrative Arc Nina Sun Eidsheim and Schuyler Whelden