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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hui, Alexandra, 1980-

Series:

Transformations (M.I.T. Press)

Transformations : studies in the history of science and technology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoacoustics--History--19th century.

Psychoacoustics.

Psychoacoustics--History--20th century.

Sound--Experiments--History--19th century.

Sound.

Sound--Experiments--History--20th century.

Avant-garde (Music)--History--19th century.

Avant-garde (Music).

Avant-garde (Music)--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An examination of how the scientific study of sound sensation became increasingly intertwined with musical aesthetics in nineteenth-century Germany and Austria.

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-262-30503-8

1-283-74161-X

0-262-30595-X

OCLC:

821645716