The Psychophysical Ear : Musical Experiments, Experimental Sounds, 1840-1910.
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- 9780262305952
- 612.8/54
- QP461 -- .H85 2013eb
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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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