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The psychophysical ear : musical experiments, experimental sounds, 1840-1910 / Alexandra Hui.

Material type: TextTextSeries: Transformations (M.I.T. Press)Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2012Description: 1 online resource (xxii, 233 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 128374161X
  • 9781283741613
  • 026230595X
  • 9780262305952
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 612.8/54 23
LOC classification:
  • QP461 .H85 2013
Online resources:
Contents:
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 FieldCoda; 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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An examination of how the scientific study of sound sensation became increasingly intertwined with musical aesthetics in nineteenth-century Germany and Austria.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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 FieldCoda; Appendix; Notes; References; Index

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