The Helmholtz Legacy in Physiological Acoustics

• Main Author: Hiebert, Erwin (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, 39
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Music.; History.; Aesthetics.; Acoustics.; History of Science.

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...

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.