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  • A Historian's Handbook for Saving the World

    Responding to the Global Climate Emergency

    Edición de Alexandra Hui, Emily Pawley ...
    Series series History for a Sustainable Future
    A historian’s guide to the climate crisis: how research, teaching, and public engagement can help reshape the future of our environment.The work of historians is vital to this moment. As climate debates shift from “believing the science” to fighting for the massive changes needed to address cataclysmic environmental damage, historical work is a critical resource for tracing and challenging the ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

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  • The Psychophysical Ear

    Musical Experiments, Experimental Sounds, 1840-1910

    de Alexandra Hui ...
    Series series Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology
    An examination of how the scientific study of sound sensation became increasingly intertwined with musical aesthetics in nineteenth-century Germany and Austria.In the middle of the nineteenth century, German and Austrian concertgoers began to hear new rhythms and harmonies as non-Western musical ensembles began to make their way to European cities and classical music introduced new compositional ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Testing Hearing

    The Making of Modern Aurality

    Edición de Viktoria Tkaczyk, Mara Mills, Alexandra Hui ...
    Testing Hearing: The Making of Modern Aurality argues that the modern cultural practices of hearing and testing have emerged from a long interrelationship. Since the early nineteenth century, auditory test tools (whether organ pipes or electronic tone generators) and the results of hearing tests have fed back into instrument calibration, human training, architecture, and the creation of new ... Leer más

    $46.79 USD

  • Osiris, Volume 28

    Music, Sound, and the Laboratory from 1750-1980

    Edición de Alexandra Hui, Julia Kursell, Myles W. Jackson ...
    Series Libro 28 - Osiris
    The understanding of sound underwent profound changes with the advent of laboratory science in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. New techniques of sound visualization and detection, the use of electricity to generate sound, and the emergence of computers radically reshaped the science of acoustics and the practice of music. The essays in this volume of Osiris explore the manifold ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

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  • Unended Quest

    An Intellectual Autobiography

    de Karl Popper ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    At the age of eight, Karl Popper was puzzling over the idea of infinity and by fifteen was beginning to take a keen interest in his father's well-stocked library of books. Unended Quest recounts these moments and many others in the life of one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century, providing an indispensable account of the ideas that influenced him most. As an introduction to ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory

    Edición de Thomas Christensen ...
    Series series The Cambridge History of Music
    The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory is the first comprehensive history of Western music theory to be published in the English language. A collaborative project by leading music theorists and historians, the volume traces the rich panorama of music-theoretical thought from the Ancient Greeks to the present day. Recognizing the variety and complexity of music theory as an historical ... Leer más

    $34.99 USD

  • Music as Thought

    Listening to the Symphony in the Age of Beethoven

    de Mark Evan Bonds ...
    Before the nineteenth century, instrumental music was considered inferior to vocal music. Kant described wordless music as "more pleasure than culture," and Rousseau dismissed it for its inability to convey concepts. But by the early 1800s, a dramatic shift was under way. Purely instrumental music was now being hailed as a means to knowledge and embraced precisely because of its independence from ... Leer más

    $23.79 USD

  • The Origins of Music

    de Carl Stumpf ...
    Traducido por David Trippett ...
    The Origins of Music was first published in German in 1911. In this text Carl Stumpf set out a path-breaking hypothesis on the earliest musical sounds in human culture. Alongside his research in such diverse fields as classical philosophy, acoustics, and mathematics, Stumpf became one of the most influential psychologists of the late 19th century. He was the founding father of Gestalt psychology, ... Leer más

    $59.39 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Schubert's ‘Winterreise'

    Edición de Marjorie W. Hirsch, Lisa Feurzeig ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Music
    Organized in five parts, this Companion enhances understanding of Schubert's Winterreise by approaching it from multiple angles. Part I examines the political, cultural, and musical environments in which Winterreise was created. Part II focuses on the poet Wilhelm Müller, his 24-poem cycle Die Winterreise, and changes Schubert made to it in fashioning his musical setting. Part III illuminates ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Reading Mahler

    German Culture and Jewish Identity in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna

    de Carl Niekerk ...
    Gustav Mahler's music is more popular than ever, yet few are aware of its roots in German literary and cultural history in general, and in fin-de-siècle Viennese culture in particular. Taking as its point of departure the many references to literature, philosophy, and the visual arts that Mahler uses to illustrate the meaning of his music, Reading Mahler helps audiences, critics, and those ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • German Lieder in the Nineteenth Century

    Edición de Rufus Hallmark ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Musical Genres
    German Lieder in the Nineteenth-Century provides a detailed introduction to the German lied. Beginning with its origin in the literary and musical culture of Germany in the nineteenth-century, the book covers individual composers, including Shubert, Schumann, Brahms, Strauss, Mahler and Wolf, the literary sources of lieder, the historical and conceptual issues of song cycles, and issues of musical ... Leer más

    $84.99 USD

  • Wittgenstein's Vienna Revisited

    de Allan Janik ...
    Fin de siecle Vienna was once memorably described by Karl Kraus as a "proving ground for the destruction of the world." In the decades leading to the World War that brought down the Austro-Hungarian empire, the city was at once an operetta dream world masking social and political problems and tension, as well as a center for the far-reaching explorations and innovations in music, art, science, and ... Leer más

    $84.99 USD