1st Edition

The Player Piano and the Edwardian Novel

By Cecilia Bjorken-Nyberg Copyright 2015
222 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge

In her study of music-making in the Edwardian novel, Cecilia Björkén-Nyberg argues that the invention and development of the player piano had a significant effect on the perception, performance and appreciation of music during the period. In contrast to existing devices for producing music mechanically such as the phonograph and gramophone, the player piano granted its operator freedom of... Read more

Storing music in Edwardian fiction.  The engineer.  The performer.  The composer.

Biography

Cecilia Bjorkén-Nyberg is Senior Lecturer in English at Halmstad University, Sweden.