Article ID: CBB000930024

Music and Physics: A Cultural, Interdisciplinary History (2008)

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Jackson, Myles W. (Author)


Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Volume: 31
Pages: 94--112


Publication Date: 2008
Edition Details: Part of a special issue: Science and Music
Language: English

This essay investigates the triangular exchange among physicists, musicians, and instrument makers in nineteenth-century Germany by proffering a material, cultural, and interdisciplinary history. It does so by analyzing four concrete examples of such exchanges: the relationship between musical automata and virtuosi, the reed pipe as an object of music and scientific measurement, the history of standardizing performance pitch, and the attempts to measure musical virtuosity. The goal of the essay is to suggest ways in which interdisciplinary cultural histories, which take the scientific content seriously, can be an improvement upon purely disciplinary histories.

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Authors & Contributors
Petersen, Sonja
Pantalony, David Alexander
Jackson, Myles W.
Barbieri, Patrizio
Pellegrino, Emilio Marco
Nagels, Maxime
Concepts
Musical instruments
Science and music
Music
Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge
Physics
Acoustics
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
18th century
Early modern
Renaissance
Places
Germany
United States
France
Austria
Switzerland
Great Britain
Institutions
Académie Royale des Sciences (France)
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
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