The Helmholtz Legacy in Physiological Acoustics
This book explores the interactions between science and music in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth century. It examines and evaluates the work of Hermann von Helmholtz, Max Planck, Shohé Tanaka, and Adriaan Fokker, leading physicists and physiologists who were committed to understanding cruci...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2014, 2014
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2014 |
| Series: | Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Envoi
- Jed Buchwald
- Acknowledgments; Erwin Hiebert
- Eloge; Joan Richards
- Introduction; Myles Jackson
- I. Helmholtz
- II. Shohé Tanaka, Just Intonation and the Enharmonium
- III. Max Planck
- IV. Adriaan Fokker. Theoretical Physics and Just Intonation Keyboards
- Appendix. Willem Pijper and the Efflorescence of Dutch Music