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

• Autore: Hui Alexandra <1980->
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (257 p.)
• Disciplina: 612.8/54
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto non controllato: Psychoacoustics; Sound; Avant-Garde (Music); Science
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The psychophysical ear
• ISBN: 0-262-30503-8; 1-283-74161-X; 0-262-30595-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910786500703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Transformations (M.I.T. Press)