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The Psychophysical Ear : Musical Experiments, Experimental Sounds, 1840-1910.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (256 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262305952
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Psychophysical EarDDC classification:
  • 612.8/54
LOC classification:
  • QP461 -- .H85 2013eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: An examination of how the scientific study of sound sensation became increasingly intertwined with musical aesthetics in nineteenth-century Germany and Austria.
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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.

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