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Harmonious triads : physicists, musicians, and instrument makers in nineteenth-century Germany /

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.

Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Jackson, Myles W.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2006.
Collection:Transformations (M.I.T. Press)
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • ""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: Scheiblerâ€?s Tonometer and Tuning Technique""; ""7 The Fetish of Precision II: Standardizing Music""; ""8 Physics, Machines, and Musical Pedagogy""; ""Appendix""; ""Notes""; ""Glossary""; ""References""; ""Index""