Overview
- Explores the interactions between science and music in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century
- Examines and evaluates the work of Hermann von Helmholtz, Max Planck, Shohé Tanaka and Adriaan Fokker, leading physicists and physiologists who made significant contributions to the theory of music
- Addresses how just intonation came to intersect with the history of keyboard instruments and exert an influence on the development of Western music
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Archimedes (ARIM, volume 39)
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Table of contents (27 chapters)
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Helmholtz
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Shohé Tanaka, Just Intonation and the Enharmonium
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Max Planck
Keywords
- Adriaan Fokker
- Arithmetic Reflections in Music
- Confronting Contemporary Music
- Erwin Hiebert
- Evaluating the Enharmonium
- From Physiology to Energy Conservation
- Hermann von Helmholtz
- Johannes Müller Circle in Berlin
- Just Intonation and the 12-tone System
- Just Intonation and the Enharmonium
- Music Theorists in Japan
- Music with passion
- Physiological Acoustics
- Physiological Acoustics and Combination Tones
- Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music
- Physiological Causes of Harmony
- Shohé Tanaka
- Theoretical Physics and Just Intonation Keyboards
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Reviews
“It reflects the work of two decades during which he studied the intertwinings of science and music in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. … the book presents them in the best possible way to facilitate further research. Readers will profit from the rich archival materials that have been translated into English and can easily be traced through the separate bibliographies that conclude each chapter.” (Julia Kursell, Isis, Vol. 107 (3), September, 2016)
Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Helmholtz Legacy in Physiological Acoustics
Authors: Erwin Hiebert
Series Title: Archimedes
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06602-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-06601-1Published: 01 July 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-38352-1Published: 17 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-06602-8Published: 12 June 2014
Series ISSN: 1385-0180
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0064
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 269
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations
Topics: Aesthetics, History of Science, Acoustics, Music