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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786500703321

Autore

Hui Alexandra <1980->

Titolo

The psychophysical ear [[electronic resource] ] : musical experiments, experimental sounds, 1840-1910 / / Alexandra Hui

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2013

ISBN

0-262-30503-8

1-283-74161-X

0-262-30595-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Collana

Transformations : studies in the history of science and technology

Disciplina

612.8/54

Soggetti

Psychoacoustics - History - 19th century

Psychoacoustics - History - 20th century

Sound - Experiments - History - 19th century

Sound - Experiments - History - 20th century

Avant-garde (Music) - History - 19th century

Avant-garde (Music) - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Gustav Fechner, the Day View, and the Origins of Psychophysics; 2 From Sonically Moving Forms to Inaudible Undertones: The New Musical Aesthetics of A. B. Marx, Eduard Hanslick,and Hugo Riemann; 3 Sound Materialized and Music Reconciled: Hermann Helmholtz; 4 The Aesthetics of Attention: Ernst Mach's Accommodation Experiments, His Psychophysical Musical Aesthetics, and His Friendship with Eduard Kulke

5 The Bias of Musikbewusstsein When Listening in the Laboratory, on the City Streets, and in the FieldCoda; Appendix; Notes; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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