Fanny Gribenski
Biographic Data
| ID | 343388 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fanny Gribenski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fanny |
| FAMILY NAME | Gribenski |
| SIGNATURE | GRIBENSKI F |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Unsound Supplies
Unsound Supplies explores the complex and often hidden provenance of “raw materials” that underpin the rich musical cultures of modernity. The volume comprises ten chapters, each focusing on a specific material used in musical instrument making and the audio-communications industry from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries—from East African ivory and transatlantic-traded rubber to manila paper, Brazilian Pernambuco wood, tropical mahogany…
Powerful Sounds for Troubled Times
This article explores the role of the organ as a political tool in nineteenth-century France. Under the Napoleonic Concordat (1802–1905), which established Catholicism as the official religion of the nation while placing the Catholic church under the authority of the state, the organ epitomized the political situation of a country marked by the inextricable entanglement of politics and religion. Drawing on a wide range of materials, including nat…
French Musical Life
Journal Article French Musical Life: Local Dynamics in the Century to World War II. Katharine Ellis Get access French Musical Life: Local Dynamics in the Century to World War II. By Katharine Ellis. Pp. 440. AMS Studies in Music. ( Oxford University Press, New York, 2022. ISBN 978-0-19-760016-0, £56.) Fanny Gribenski Fanny Gribenski New York University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Music and Letters, Vol…
Sounding Acoustic Precision
A great variety of tuning forks survive in collections around the world, from departments of physics, phonetics, and psychology to medical settings, conservatories, and museum collections. Their ubiquity speaks to their iconic status, while their diversity points to the multifaceted cultures of materiality that shaped and formed around these objects. This essay traces the complex supply chains of nineteenth-century tuning forks, from the gatherin…
Science in the Church
Until the twentieth century, the interiors of churches and cathedrals constituted the largest enclosed spaces accessible to natural philosophers. Such immense volumes of air provided unique opportunities for the examination of sonorous phenomena and, from the seventeenth century, featured centrally in the production of acoustic knowledge. During the nineteenth century, however, these ecclesiastical buildings took on increasing scientific signific…
Words and Numbers
During the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, classical music was increasingly perceived as a universal language in Western countries. At the same time, intensifying processes of globalization and growing historical knowledge about the musical past revealed the plurality of musical systems in use across nations and time. In response to this complexification of the Western musical field, attempts were made to standardize pitch as a way of h…
Sur le diapason
Sur le diapason : autour d’un cycle de création, entre son, science et lumière, de Nicolas Bernier, Dijon, Les Presses du réel, 2018, 176 pages. Un article de la revue Circuit (Quelle norme ?) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
The Politics of Musical Standardization in Nineteenth-Century France and Britain
This article examines mid-nineteenth-century Anglo-French relations through the prism of musical standardization. Bringing together perspectives from musicology, history of science, and political history, it demonstrates the holistic value of musical practices for the study of processes of political integration. In 1859, Napoléon III's government determined a national pitch to which musicians should tune their instruments. The following year, Bri…
Tuning forks as time travel machines
Recent research at the intersection of music and science has described standards of musical pitch as the result of an increasing circulation of actors and artefacts and the rise of science in the musical field; like the metre, the kilo, or the second, the unified musical measure was invented to create a unified space. I argue here that there was another key factor in standardisation: the canonisation of music. As scores acquired unprecedented aut…
A Connected History and Geography of Studios
An illuminated sign indicates in red letters that 'Recording is in Session'. The door to the studio is closed, and passers-by understand that they are not to knock on, let alone open it. An essenti
Ecrire l'histoire du la
Alors qu'elle constitue une référence incontournable dans le monde musical occidental, la note la accordée à 440 hertz n'est devenue le ton de concert standard qu'à l'issue d'une conférence internationale organisée à Londres en 1939. Si l'histoire des variations du diapason a été étudiée dans la perspective d'une interprétation historiquement informée des répertoires musicaux, elle n'a jamais été envisagée comme un processus historique, social et…
Un contrepoint contesté
Au début du vingtième siècle, la polyphonie moderne – qui menace à la fois la tradition et la compréhensibilité – devient emblématique des problèmes engendrés par la nouvelle musique. Cet article examine l’idéologie sous-jacente à l’écoute du contrepoint en examinant particulièrement la réception de la saison de concerts 1906-1907 – et, en particulier, la façon dont la rhétorique des comptes rendus des créations de la Sixième Symphonie de Mahler …
The Politics of Musical Standardization in Nineteenth-Century France and Britain
This article examines mid-nineteenth-century Anglo-French relations through the prism of musical standardization. Bringing together perspectives from musicology, history of science, and political history, it demonstrates the holistic value of musical practices for the study of processes of political integration. In 1859, Napoléon III's government determined a national pitch to which musicians should tune their instruments. The following year, Bri…
Tuning forks as time travel machines
Recent research at the intersection of music and science has described standards of musical pitch as the result of an increasing circulation of actors and artefacts and the rise of science in the musical field; like the metre, the kilo, or the second, the unified musical measure was invented to create a unified space. I argue here that there was another key factor in standardisation: the canonisation of music. As scores acquired unprecedented aut…
A Connected History and Geography of Studios
An illuminated sign indicates in red letters that 'Recording is in Session'. The door to the studio is closed, and passers-by understand that they are not to knock on, let alone open it. An essenti
Un contrepoint contesté
Au début du vingtième siècle, la polyphonie moderne – qui menace à la fois la tradition et la compréhensibilité – devient emblématique des problèmes engendrés par la nouvelle musique. Cet article examine l’idéologie sous-jacente à l’écoute du contrepoint en examinant particulièrement la réception de la saison de concerts 1906-1907 – et, en particulier, la façon dont la rhétorique des comptes rendus des créations de la Sixième Symphonie de Mahler …
Ecrire l'histoire du la
Alors qu'elle constitue une référence incontournable dans le monde musical occidental, la note la accordée à 440 hertz n'est devenue le ton de concert standard qu'à l'issue d'une conférence internationale organisée à Londres en 1939. Si l'histoire des variations du diapason a été étudiée dans la perspective d'une interprétation historiquement informée des répertoires musicaux, elle n'a jamais été envisagée comme un processus historique, social et…
Tuning forks as time travel machines
Recent research at the intersection of music and science has described standards of musical pitch as the result of an increasing circulation of actors and artefacts and the rise of science in the musical field; like the metre, the kilo, or the second, the unified musical measure was invented to create a unified space. I argue here that there was another key factor in standardisation: the canonisation of music. As scores acquired unprecedented aut…
A Connected History and Geography of Studios
An illuminated sign indicates in red letters that 'Recording is in Session'. The door to the studio is closed, and passers-by understand that they are not to knock on, let alone open it. An essenti
Words and Numbers
During the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, classical music was increasingly perceived as a universal language in Western countries. At the same time, intensifying processes of globalization and growing historical knowledge about the musical past revealed the plurality of musical systems in use across nations and time. In response to this complexification of the Western musical field, attempts were made to standardize pitch as a way of h…
Sur le diapason
Sur le diapason : autour d’un cycle de création, entre son, science et lumière, de Nicolas Bernier, Dijon, Les Presses du réel, 2018, 176 pages. Un article de la revue Circuit (Quelle norme ?) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
The Politics of Musical Standardization in Nineteenth-Century France and Britain
This article examines mid-nineteenth-century Anglo-French relations through the prism of musical standardization. Bringing together perspectives from musicology, history of science, and political history, it demonstrates the holistic value of musical practices for the study of processes of political integration. In 1859, Napoléon III's government determined a national pitch to which musicians should tune their instruments. The following year, Bri…
French Musical Life
Journal Article French Musical Life: Local Dynamics in the Century to World War II. Katharine Ellis Get access French Musical Life: Local Dynamics in the Century to World War II. By Katharine Ellis. Pp. 440. AMS Studies in Music. ( Oxford University Press, New York, 2022. ISBN 978-0-19-760016-0, £56.) Fanny Gribenski Fanny Gribenski New York University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Music and Letters, Vol…
Sounding Acoustic Precision
A great variety of tuning forks survive in collections around the world, from departments of physics, phonetics, and psychology to medical settings, conservatories, and museum collections. Their ubiquity speaks to their iconic status, while their diversity points to the multifaceted cultures of materiality that shaped and formed around these objects. This essay traces the complex supply chains of nineteenth-century tuning forks, from the gatherin…
Science in the Church
Until the twentieth century, the interiors of churches and cathedrals constituted the largest enclosed spaces accessible to natural philosophers. Such immense volumes of air provided unique opportunities for the examination of sonorous phenomena and, from the seventeenth century, featured centrally in the production of acoustic knowledge. During the nineteenth century, however, these ecclesiastical buildings took on increasing scientific signific…
Powerful Sounds for Troubled Times
This article explores the role of the organ as a political tool in nineteenth-century France. Under the Napoleonic Concordat (1802–1905), which established Catholicism as the official religion of the nation while placing the Catholic church under the authority of the state, the organ epitomized the political situation of a country marked by the inextricable entanglement of politics and religion. Drawing on a wide range of materials, including nat…
Unsound Supplies
Unsound Supplies explores the complex and often hidden provenance of “raw materials” that underpin the rich musical cultures of modernity. The volume comprises ten chapters, each focusing on a specific material used in musical instrument making and the audio-communications industry from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries—from East African ivory and transatlantic-traded rubber to manila paper, Brazilian Pernambuco wood, tropical mahogany…
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