Helmholtz and the Modern Listener - Brossura

Steege, Benjamin

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ISBN 10: 1107504333 ISBN 13: 9781107504332

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2015

Riassunto

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.

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Recensione:

'... this is a richly textured, impressively detailed and well-chiseled study that will deepen our engagement with Helmholtz's complex acoustic cosmology.' David Trippett, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science

'[Steege's] text moves ... with an interpretive delight and a virtuosity, drawing in a wide range of subjects and interlocutors.' Leslie David Blasius, Journal of the American Musicological Society

Descrizione del libro:

Benjamin Steege presents the first full English-language study of Helmholtz's musical work. 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.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1107504333
• ISBN 13: 9781107504332
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 296