04315nam 22006855 450 991015902630332120191022022751.010.7208/9780226402109(CKB)3710000001014381(MiAaPQ)EBC4526391(StDuBDS)EDZ0001621515(DE-B1597)523353(OCoLC)972290796(DE-B1597)9780226402109(EXLCZ)99371000000101438120191022d2017 fg engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierSound Knowledge Music and Science in London, 1789-1851 /Ellen Lockhart, James Q. DaviesChicago : University of Chicago Press, [2017]©20171 online resource (264 pages)Includes index.Print version : 9780226402079 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Fantasies of Total Description / Davies, James Q. / Lockhart, Ellen -- 1. Music as an Object of Natural History / Dolan, Emily I. -- 2. Celestial Mechanisms: Adam Walker's Eidouranion, Celestina, and the Advancement of Knowledge / Loughridge, Deirdre -- 3. Transparent Music and Sound-Light Analogy ca. 1800 / Lockhart, Ellen -- 4. Charles Wheatstone: Musical Instrument Making, Natural Philosophy, and Acoustics in Early Nineteenth-Century London / Jackson, Myles W. -- 5. Charles Wheatstone's Enchanted Lyre and the Spectacle of Sound / Dickson, Melissa -- 6. Instruments of Empire / Davies, James Q. -- 7. Good Vibrations: Frankenstein on the London Stage / Hibberd, Sarah -- 8. Engine Noise and Artificial Intelligence: Babbage's London / Williams, Gavin -- 9. Hearing Things: Musical Objects at the 1851 Great Exhibition / Willson, Flora -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- IndexWhat does it mean to hear scientifically? What does it mean to see musically? This volume uncovers a new side to the long nineteenth century in London, a hidden history in which virtuosic musical entertainment and scientific discovery intersected in remarkable ways. Sound Knowledge examines how scientific truth was accrued by means of visual and aural experience, and, in turn, how musical knowledge was located in relation to empirical scientific practice. James Q. Davies and Ellen Lockhart gather work by leading scholars to explore a crucial sixty-year period, beginning with Charles Burney's ambitious General History of Music, a four-volume study of music around the globe, and extending to the Great Exhibition of 1851, where musical instruments were assembled alongside the technologies of science and industry in the immense glass-encased collections of the Crystal Palace. Importantly, as the contributions show, both the power of science and the power of music relied on performance, spectacle, and experiment. Ultimately, this volume sets the stage for a new picture of modern disciplinarity, shining light on an era before the division of aural and visual knowledge. Music and scienceHistory18th centuryMusic and scienceHistory19th centuryMusicEnglandLondon18th centuryHistory and criticismMusicEnglandLondon19th centuryHistory and criticismScienceEnglandLondonHistory18th centuryScienceEnglandLondonHistory19th centuryLondon.history of listening.music.natural philosophy.nineteenth-century.political economy.science.sound studies.spectacle.Music and scienceHistoryMusic and scienceHistoryMusicHistory and criticism.MusicHistory and criticism.ScienceHistoryScienceHistory780/.05Davies James Q., Lockhart Ellen, DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910159026303321Sound Knowledge2060363UNINA