It
is one of the first electronic musical instruments that is controlled
without the physical contact of the interpreter or thereminist with the
instrument. Its
name derives from the westernized version of the name of its Russian
inventor Léon Theremin (Термен), who developed it in 1920 and patented
it in 1928.
The instrument is formed by two metallic antennas that detect the relative position of the hands of the thereminist and the oscillators to control the frequency with one hand and the amplitude (volume) with the other. Theremin electrical signals are amplified and sent to a speaker.
The theremin was included in soundtracks of films such as Remember and Days Without Footprint composed by Miklós Rózsa, as well as in Bernard Herrmann's Earth Ultimatum. It has also been used in themes for television shows such as the ITV series The Midsomer Murders. This has led to its association with disturbing situations. Also, this instrument is used in classical music, especially experimental music and contemporary classical music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries; as well as in genres of popular music such as rock.
consists of a box with two antennas. It is executed by moving the hand away from each one of the corresponding antennas, without touching them. The right is usually straight and vertical. It serves to control the tone or frequency: the closer to it the right hand is, the sharper the sound produced will be. The left antenna is horizontal and shaped like a loop. It serves to control the volume level, which will be lower the closer it is to the left hand.The timbre of the theremines resembled something between a cello and a human voice. Its inventor, as well as a physicist, was a cellist
The instrument is formed by two metallic antennas that detect the relative position of the hands of the thereminist and the oscillators to control the frequency with one hand and the amplitude (volume) with the other. Theremin electrical signals are amplified and sent to a speaker.
The theremin was included in soundtracks of films such as Remember and Days Without Footprint composed by Miklós Rózsa, as well as in Bernard Herrmann's Earth Ultimatum. It has also been used in themes for television shows such as the ITV series The Midsomer Murders. This has led to its association with disturbing situations. Also, this instrument is used in classical music, especially experimental music and contemporary classical music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries; as well as in genres of popular music such as rock.
consists of a box with two antennas. It is executed by moving the hand away from each one of the corresponding antennas, without touching them. The right is usually straight and vertical. It serves to control the tone or frequency: the closer to it the right hand is, the sharper the sound produced will be. The left antenna is horizontal and shaped like a loop. It serves to control the volume level, which will be lower the closer it is to the left hand.The timbre of the theremines resembled something between a cello and a human voice. Its inventor, as well as a physicist, was a cellist
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