Harmonious triads : physicists, musicians, and instrument makers in ninteenth-century Germany

Harmonious triads : physicists, musicians, and instrument makers in ninteenth-century Germany /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Jackson, Myles W.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2006]
Series:	Transformations (M.I.T. Press)
Subjects:	Music > Acoustics and physics > 19th century. Music > Germany > 19th century > Philosophy and aesthetics. Germany > Intellectual life > 19th century.
Online Access:	Table of contents only

Table of Contents:

E.F.F. Chladni : the nodal point between acoustician and musical-instrument maker
Singing savants : music for the Volk
The organic versus the mechanical
Wilhelm Weber, reed pipes, and adiabatic phenomena
The fetish of precision I : Scheibler's tonometer and tuning technique
The fetish of precision II : standardizing music
Physics, machines, and musical pedagogy.