| Description |
1 online resource (x, 395 pages) : illustrations, music. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Transformations
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Transformations (M.I.T. Press)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-388) and index. |
| 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 |
""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"" |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Music -- Acoustics and physics -- 19th century.
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Music -- Acoustics and physics. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Music -- Germany -- 19th century.
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Music. |
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Germany. |
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Germany -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
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Intellectual life. |
| Chronological Term |
1800 - 1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Jackson, Myles W. Harmonious triads. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2006 0262101165 9780262101165 (DLC) 2006044991 (OCoLC)67392989 |
| ISBN |
9780262276153 (electronic book) |
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0262276151 (electronic book) |
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0262101165 (alkaline paper) |
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9780262101165 (alkaline paper) |
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1282098276 |
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9781282098275 |
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