The Psychophysical Ear : Musical Experiments, Experimental Sounds, 1840-1910.
Hui, Alexandra.
The Psychophysical Ear : Musical Experiments, Experimental Sounds, 1840-1910. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (256 pages) - Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology Series . - Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology Series .
Intro -- Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Gustav Fechner, the Day View, and the Origins of Psychophysics -- 2 From Sonically Moving Forms to Inaudible Undertones: The New Musical Aesthetics of A. B. Marx, Eduard Hanslick,and Hugo Riemann -- 3 Sound Materialized and Music Reconciled: Hermann Helmholtz -- 4 The Aesthetics of Attention: Ernst Mach's Accommodation Experiments, His Psychophysical Musical Aesthetics, and His Friendship with Eduard Kulke -- 5 The Bias of Musikbewusstsein When Listening in the Laboratory, on the City Streets, and in the Field -- Coda -- Appendix -- Notes -- References -- Index.
An examination of how the scientific study of sound sensation became increasingly intertwined with musical aesthetics in nineteenth-century Germany and Austria.
9780262305952
Psychoacoustics -- History -- 19th century.
Psychoacoustics -- History -- 20th century.
Sound -- Experiments -- History -- 19th century.
Sound -- Experiments -- History -- 20th century.
Avant-garde (Music) -- History -- 19th century.
Avant-garde (Music) -- History -- 20th century.
Electronic books.
QP461 -- .H85 2013eb
612.8/54
The Psychophysical Ear : Musical Experiments, Experimental Sounds, 1840-1910. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (256 pages) - Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology Series . - Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology Series .
Intro -- Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Gustav Fechner, the Day View, and the Origins of Psychophysics -- 2 From Sonically Moving Forms to Inaudible Undertones: The New Musical Aesthetics of A. B. Marx, Eduard Hanslick,and Hugo Riemann -- 3 Sound Materialized and Music Reconciled: Hermann Helmholtz -- 4 The Aesthetics of Attention: Ernst Mach's Accommodation Experiments, His Psychophysical Musical Aesthetics, and His Friendship with Eduard Kulke -- 5 The Bias of Musikbewusstsein When Listening in the Laboratory, on the City Streets, and in the Field -- Coda -- Appendix -- Notes -- References -- Index.
An examination of how the scientific study of sound sensation became increasingly intertwined with musical aesthetics in nineteenth-century Germany and Austria.
9780262305952
Psychoacoustics -- History -- 19th century.
Psychoacoustics -- History -- 20th century.
Sound -- Experiments -- History -- 19th century.
Sound -- Experiments -- History -- 20th century.
Avant-garde (Music) -- History -- 19th century.
Avant-garde (Music) -- History -- 20th century.
Electronic books.
QP461 -- .H85 2013eb
612.8/54