Harmonious Triads: Physicists, Musicians, and Instrument Makers in Nineteenth-Century Germany

by Myles W. Jackson

Book Overview

Historically, music was long classified as both art and science. Aspects of music--from the mathematics of tuning to the music of the celestial spheres--were primarily studied as science until the seventeenth century. In the nineteenth century, although scientists were less interested in the music of the spheres than the natural philosophers of earlier centuries, they remained committed to understanding the world of performing musicians and their...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262600757
• ISBN13: 9780262600750
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher