Harmonious triads : physicists, musicians, and instrument makers in nineteenth-century Germany / Myles W. Jackson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jackson, Myles W.

Series:

Transformations (M.I.T. Press)

Transformations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Acoustics and physics--19th century.

Music.

Music--Germany--19th century--Philosophy and aesthetics.

Germany--Intellectual life--19th century.

Germany.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (406 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An analysis of the intersection of science and music in nineteenth-century Germany: how music provided physicists with a venue for experiments as well as a cultural resource, and how physics assisted musicians in their art and musical instrument makers in.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Includes bibliographic references (p. [351]-388) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-09827-6

9786612098277

0-262-27615-1

1-4294-2109-6

OCLC:

77565125