Osiris, Volume 28 - Music, Sound, and the Laboratory From 1750-1980

Summary

The understanding of sound underwent profound changes with the advent of laboratory science in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This volume explores the manifold transformations of sound ranging from soundproof rooms to psychoacoustics of seismology to galvanic music to pedaling technique.

Product details

• Authors: Alexandra Kursell Hui
• Assisted by: Alexandra Hui (Editor), Myles W. Jackson (Editor), Jackson Myles W. (Editor), Julia Kursell (Editor), Kursell Julia (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.10.2013
• EAN: 9780226053752
• ISBN: 978-0-226-05375-2
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Osiris; Osiris (Paperback); Osiris; Osiris (Paperback); OSIRIS OSR
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Music, MUSIC / General, SCIENCE / History, 20th Century, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Acoustics & Sound, SCIENCE / Waves & Wave Mechanics, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, History of Science, Wave mechanics (vibration & acoustics), Acoustic & sound engineering, C 1700 To C 1800, Acoustic and sound engineering, Wave mechanics (vibration and acoustics)