Theremin (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Albert Glinsky
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Biography, history, history of science, music, and technology
- Time of Work: 1896-1993
- Setting: St. Petersburg (Leningrad), Russia; Berlin and Frankfurt, Germany; Paris, France; London, England; New York City, New York, United States; Kolyma, Siberia, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; and Moscow, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
- Principal Characters: Leon Theremin (Lev Sergeyevich Termen), Ekaterina (Katia) Constantinova, Abram Fedorovich Ioffe, Joseph Schillinger, Lucie Bigelow Rosen, Clara Reisenberg, Lavinia Williams
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: United States or Americans, France or French people, Twentieth century, Nineteenth century, Europe or Europeans, Music or musicians, Paris, England or English people, London, Germany or German people, Inventions or inventors, Russia or Russian people, Moscow, Soviet Union or Soviets, Berlin, Siberia or Siberians
- Locales: New York, NY, United States, Soviet Union, Paris, France, London, England, Berlin, Germany, Germany, Moscow, Russia, Siberia, Leningrad, Russia, St. Petersburg, Russia, Frankfurt, Germany
Even though few listeners are likely to recognize its name, almost everyone has at one time or another heard an electronic musical instrument known to the cognoscenti as the theremin (pronounced “THAIR-uh-min” in the English-speaking world). The Beach Boys’ 1966 hit song “Good Vibrations” utilized the instrument to happy, loopy effect. Two decades earlier Miklos Rozsa’s soundtrack to the Alfred Hitchcock film Spellbound (1945) had featured the theremin to suggest an undercurrent of paranoia. Since then countless B-grade movies have relied on the theremin’s unearthly...
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