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

Format:

Book

Series:

Transformations: studies in the history of science and technology.

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.

History.

Sound--Experiments.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 233 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2012.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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

Contents:

1 Gustav Fechner, the Day View, and the Origins of Psychophysics 1

2 From Sonicaliy Moving Forms to Inaudible Undertones: The New Musical Aesthetics of A. B. Marx, Eduard Hanslick, and, Hugo Riemann 23

3 Sound Materialized and Music Reconciled: Hermann Helmholtz 55

4 The Aesthetics of Attention: Ernst Mach's Accommodation Experiments, His Psychophysical Musical Aesthetics, and His Friendship with Eduard Kulke 89

5 The Bias of Musikbewusstsein When Listening in the Laboratory, on the City Streets, and in the Field 123.

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

128374161X

9781283741613

026230595X

9780262305952

OCLC:

821645716

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