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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777504003321

Autore

Jackson Myles W

Titolo

Harmonious triads : physicists, musicians, and instrument makers in nineteenth-century Germany / / Myles W. Jackson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2006

ISBN

1-282-09827-6

9786612098277

0-262-27615-1

1-4294-2109-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (406 p.)

Collana

Transformations

Disciplina

784.1943/09034

Soggetti

Music - Acoustics and physics - 19th century

Music - Germany - 19th century

Germany Intellectual life 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographic references (p. [351]-388) and index.

Sommario/riassunto

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.