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Topic: Boston Museum of Fine Arts Music E-book free til 8/1 |
Andy Volk
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Boston, MA
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Posted 24 Jun 2013 9:24 am |
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From Boston MFA Music curator Darcy Kuronen: Free download until August 1st
Musical Instruments is now available as an enhanced e-book for the iPad! Featuring 23 video and 25 audio clips that bring the Museum’s collection to life, this e-book allows readers to discover how many of the 100 instruments in the book sound and to see how they are held when played.
The audio and video clips feature expert musicians performing on such rare and historical instruments as a French tenor trombone, a modern South Indian lute (veena), an Appalachian dulcimer, a Dutch oboe, a Javanese gamelan and a Gibson lap steel guitar. The e-book offers a vivid encounter with a rich collection, enhanced to provide an accessible and fascinating introduction to the artistry and significance of musical instruments around the world.
The works of art included in the publication span centuries and cultures to offer a brilliant array of instruments as producers of both aural and visual delight. They are remarkable not only for the myriad sounds they produce, but also for their varied and often extraordinarily beautiful appearance. Musical instruments are among the most meaningful artifacts produced by humankind, a marriage of technology, artistry, symbolism, religion, and entertainment. As objects of both cultural expression and sculptural craft, these are among the most exquisite and intriguing instruments ever created.
enhanced, fixed-layout e-book is for use on an iPad, iPod Touch, or iPhone, and is available as a free download from the iBookstore through August 1, after which it can be purchased for $9.99. You can link to the iBookstore from the MFA’s website at http://www.mfa.org/musical-instruments-e-book. (Apple will soon be distributing this publication in Europe as well.) |
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William Lake
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Ontario, Canada
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Posted 24 Jun 2013 11:33 am
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Andy, all I get is page not found.
A search on their site for e-book also not found.
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Michael Maddex
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Northern New Mexico, USA
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Posted 24 Jun 2013 1:55 pm
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William, the problem is the '.' at the end of Andy's sentence. Try this:
http://www.mfa.org/collections/publications/musical-instruments%23e-book
Andy, thanks for the tip. I don't do iAnything, so I'm going to try and make sense of it in Linux. Or maybe not: To get a download requires installing iTunes, which I am not going to do, at least not on this machine.
Or buy the print copy, price is fair enough.
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William Lake
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Ontario, Canada
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Posted 24 Jun 2013 3:53 pm
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Thanks Mike. It seems it is not available to us Canadians. Bummer
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