Harmonious Triads : Physicists, Musicians, and Instrument Makers in Nineteenth-Century Germany.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (406 pages)
- Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology Series .
- Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology Series .
Intro -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 E. F. F. Chladni: The Nodal Point between Acoustician and Musical-Instrument Maker -- 3 Singing Savants: Music for the Volk -- 4 The Organic versus the Mechanical -- 5 Wilhelm Weber, Reed Pipes, and Adiabatic Phenomena -- 6 The Fetish of Precision I: Scheibler's Tonometer and Tuning Technique -- 7 The Fetish of Precision II: Standardizing Music -- 8 Physics, Machines, and Musical Pedagogy -- Appendix -- Notes -- Glossary -- References -- Index.
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Music-Acoustics and physics-19th century. Music-Germany-19th century-Philosophy and aesthetics. Germany-Intellectual life-19th century.