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BL
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639758
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Steege, Benjamin.
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| Title & Author
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Helmholtz and the modern listener /\ Benjamin Steege.
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge ;New York :: Cambridge University Press,, 2012.
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xii, 282 p. :: ill., facsims. ;; 26 cm.
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| ISBN
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9781107015173 (hbk.)
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: 1107015170 (hbk.)
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| Notes
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"Chronology": p.xi-xii.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 252-276) and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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Music-- Psychological aspects.
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Music-- Physiological aspects.
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Music-- Acoustics and physics.
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| Dewey Classification
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781/.11
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ML3830.S79 2012
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