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| Theremin : Ether Music and Espionage - HIGHLY
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| Theremin : Ether Music and
Espionage
The book we've been waiting years for... because sometimes the truth
can be stranger than fiction... Discover previously unknown facts about the secret life of Leon
Theremin... |
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Theremin : Ether
Music and Espionage
Albert
Glinsky, foreword by Robert Moog.
Music in American Life Series
MIT Press
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Lev Sergeyevich Termen (1896-1993) grew up in St. Petersburg, the son of a lawyer and a mother who dabbled
in the arts. Naturally inclined toward music and physics, Lev understood electromagnetic fields and applied these principles
to design a "space controlled" instrument employing recently developed vacuum tube oscillators and amplifiers. Dubbing the
device with his French ancestral name, Theremin, he toured Europe and America, training several to play it. Returning,
perhaps abducted, to Russia as Stalin rose to power, he was imprisoned in Siberia for months, then put in a special unit to
develop listening devices to spy on the U.S. Embassy. Glinsky tells the tale of Termen's two lives with spirit and empathy,
describing the horrors of the Soviet state and Termen's tenacity in continuing to create electronic instruments. Meanwhile,
the original theremin inspired Robert Moog to develop his influential electronic synthesizers in the 1960s. Glinsky delves
into the physics of Termen's creations, but principally this is the inspiring story of an inventive genius who launched a
revolution in music making.
Alan Hirsch
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
--David
Harrington, Kronos Quartet: "With THEREMIN, Albert Glinsky has created an amazing new thriller biography. As a guide book
through the twentieth century, THEREMIN is an incredible story of invention, music, history, science, and espionage--a
celebration of pure creativity."
--Ned Rorem, Composer and author: "...Very well written, absorbing, and, of course,
quite unusual....a valuable biography and a valiant, excellent, and unique project." |
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| Method For
Theremin Book One - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED |
Method for the
Theremin Book I : Basics
Preface
Acknowledgements
Contents
PLAYING CONCEPTS
Antenna Configuration
Playing the notes
Playing the notes in tune
Playing the notes Musically
PITCH PRODUCTION
Stance
Tuning Right Hand Technique
Right Wrist Technique
Using the Forearm and Wrist
VOLUME, ARTICULATION AND
EXPRESSION
Left Hand Technique in General
Volume, Crescendo and Dimenuendo
Starting a Pitch
Repeated Pitches
and Articulation between Different Pitches
Vibrato
BASIC EXERCISES
Background
Basic
Exercises |
C Major Scale
Intervals in C major
A Minor Scale
1
Intervals in A minor
Chromatic scale
Arpeggios
Simple Scale Patterns
Simple Exercises
Adding Left
Hand Expression
ABOUT PRACTICING
MUSIC EXAMPLES
FOOTNOTES
APPENDIX A - Alternate Stances and Playing Arcs
APPENDIX B - Theremin Playing Aids
Electronic Tuner
Installing on Microphone Stand
Inline Connection
Circuit Modification Connection
Computer Aid for Use With the Theremin
APPENDIX C - Notes on tuning
GLOSSARY
Terms Symbols |
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Method
for Theremin Book I
Robert B. Sexton, Thin Air Series, 1996
Tactus Press
ISBN:
1-881428-08-7
Spiral Bound
52 Pages
The only
commercially available theremin tutor in the world..!
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Tactus Press
PO Box 9704
Austin, TX
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If you are serious about the theremin, this book is an excellent way
to get started, and is far, far more in-depth than the Clara Rockmore method book. Includes everything from the basics to
alternate playing stances, technical exercises, and adding 'pitch preview'. Ideal for any thereminist, but really suited to
Etherwave owners, as the author plays an Etherwave Theremin himself. Packed full of interesting and useful photographs and
diagrams, this book comes highly recommended.
It may be ordered from Amazon.com, or directly from The Tactus Press. | |
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