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Author : Vaughn Carlton Maley
Release : 1967
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Book Synopsis The Theory of Beats and Combination Tones, 1700-1863 by : Vaughn Carlton Maley
Download or read book The Theory of Beats and Combination Tones, 1700-1863 written by Vaughn Carlton Maley. This book was released on 1967. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vaughn Carlton Maley
Release : 1990
Genre : Science
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Book Synopsis The Theory of Beats and Combination Tones, 1700-1863 by : Vaughn Carlton Maley
Download or read book The Theory of Beats and Combination Tones, 1700-1863 written by Vaughn Carlton Maley. This book was released on 1990. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas L. Hankins
Release : 2014-07-14
Genre : Science
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Book Synopsis Instruments and the Imagination by : Thomas L. Hankins
Download or read book Instruments and the Imagination written by Thomas L. Hankins. This book was released on 2014-07-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Hankins and Robert Silverman investigate an array of instruments from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century that seem at first to be marginal to science--magnetic clocks that were said to operate by the movements of sunflower seeds, magic lanterns, ocular harpsichords (machines that played different colored lights in harmonious mixtures), Aeolian harps (a form of wind chime), and other instruments of "natural magic" designed to produce wondrous effects. By looking at these and the first recording instruments, the stereoscope, and speaking machines, the authors show that "scientific instruments" first made their appearance as devices used to evoke wonder in the beholder, as in works of magic and the theater. The authors also demonstrate that these instruments, even though they were often "tricks," were seen by their inventors as more than trickery. In the view of Athanasius Kircher, for instance, the sunflower clock was not merely a hoax, but an effort to demonstrate, however fraudulently, his truly held belief that the ability of a flower to follow the sun was due to the same cosmic magnetic influence as that which moved the planets and caused the rotation of the earth. The marvels revealed in this work raise and answer questions about the connections between natural science and natural magic, the meaning of demonstration, the role of language and the senses in science, and the connections among art, music, literature, and natural science. Originally published in 1995. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Thomas Christensen
Release : 2006-04-20
Genre : Music
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Book Synopsis The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory by : Thomas Christensen
Download or read book The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory written by Thomas Christensen. This book was released on 2006-04-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory is the first comprehensive history of Western music theory to be published in the English language. A collaborative project by leading music theorists and historians, the volume traces the rich panorama of music-theoretical thought from the Ancient Greeks to the present day. Recognizing the variety and complexity of music theory as an historical subject, the volume has been organized within a flexible framework. Some chapters are defined chronologically within a restricted historical domain, whilst others are defined conceptually and span longer historical periods. Together the thirty-one chapters present a synthetic overview of the fascinating and complex subject that is historical music theory. Richly enhanced with illustrations, graphics, examples and cross-citations as well as being thoroughly indexed and supplemented by comprehensive bibliographies of the most important primary and secondary literature, this book will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars alike.
Author : Benjamin Steege
Release : 2012-07-19
Genre : Music
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Book Synopsis Helmholtz and the Modern Listener by : Benjamin Steege
Download or read book Helmholtz and the Modern Listener written by Benjamin Steege. This book was released on 2012-07-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The musical writings of scientist Hermann von Helmholtz (1821–94) have long been considered epoch-making in the histories of both science and aesthetics. Widely regarded as having promised an authoritative scientific foundation for harmonic practice, Helmholtz can also be read as posing a series of persistent challenges to our understanding of the musical listener. Helmholtz was at the forefront of sweeping changes in discourse about human perception. His interrogation of the physiology of hearing threw notions of the self-possessed listener into doubt and conjured a sense of vulnerability to mechanistic forces and fragmentary experience. Yet this new image of the listener was simultaneously caught up in wider projects of discipline, education and liberal reform. Reading Helmholtz in conjunction with a range of his intellectual sources and heirs, from Goethe to Max Weber to George Bernard Shaw, Steege explores the significance of Helmholtz's listener as an emblem of a broader cultural modernity.
