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Helmholtz and the modern listener /

1107015170 (hbk.)

9781107015173 (hbk.)

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Helmholtz and the modern listener /

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Benjamin Steege.

New York :

Cambridge University Press,

2012.

xii, 282 p. :

ill., facsims. ;

26 cm.

"Chronology": p.xi-xii.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 252-276) and index.

Introduction. Henry Higgins, professor of phonetics ; Helmholtz as modern -- Popular sensations. The popular impulse ; Renovating musical knowledge ; Sensation, interest, value ; The wider campaign -- Refunctioning the ear. Hearing and erring ; The ear and its doubles ; Das körperliche Ohr (sensation) ; Das geistige Ohr (signification) -- The problem of attention. Temporalities of attention ; The third ear ; Fixity and difference ; Attention and apperception -- Music theory as liberal progressive history. The theory of "affinity" ; The history of "affinity" ; Between choice and necessity ; The double choice -- Voices of reform. Refunctioning the voice ; Helmholtz in England : the Tonic Sol-fa Society ; "Natural" intonation in theory and practice -- Epilogue : Helmholtz and modernism. The modernity of sensation ; Helmholtzian Wagnerism? ; Schoenberg's expressionist Empfindungswelt ; Max Weber and the modern listener ; Conclusion.

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Helmholtz, Hermann von,1821-1894.

Music-- Acoustics and physics.

Music-- Physiological aspects.

Music-- Psychological aspects.

Steege, Benjamin.

20130211035552.0

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