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1 online resource (xii, 282 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 252-276) and index. |
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Cover; Helmholtz and the Modern Listener; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Chronology; Introduction; Henry Higgins, Professor of Phonetics; Helmholtz as modern; 1: Popular sensations; The popular impulse; Renovating musical knowledge; Sensation, interest, value; The wider campaign; 2: Refunctioning the ear; Hearing and erring; The ear and its doubles; Das körperliche Ohr (sensation); Das geistige Ohr (signification); 3: The problem of attention; Temporalities of attention; The third ear; Fixity and difference; Attention and apperception. |
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4: Music theory as liberal progressive historyThe theory of "affinity"; The history of "affinity"; Between choice and necessity; The double choice; 5: Voices of reform; Refunctioning the voice; Helmholtz in England: the Tonic Sol-fa Society; "Natural" intonation in theory and practice; Epilogue: Helmholtz and modernism; The modernity of sensation; Helmholtzian Wagnerism?; Schoenberg's Expressionist Empfindungswelt; Max Weber and the modern listener; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
Steege explores Helmholtz's significance within a historical shift in the theory and practice of listening in nineteenth-century European culture. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Helmholtz, Hermann von, 1821-1894.
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Helmholtz, Hermann von, 1821-1894. |
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Music -- Psychological aspects.
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Music -- Psychological aspects. |
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Music -- Physiological aspects.
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Music -- Physiological aspects. |
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Music -- Acoustics and physics.
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Music -- Acoustics and physics. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Steege, Benjamin. Helmholtz and the modern listener. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012 9781107015173 (DLC) 2012015500 (OCoLC)789149918 |
| ISBN |
9781139516785 (electronic book) |
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1139516787 (electronic book) |
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9781139057745 (electronic book) |
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113905774X (electronic book) |
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9781139518642 (electronic book) |
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113951864X (electronic book) |
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9781107015173 |
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1107015170 |
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