Table of contents for Library of Congress control number 2006044991

Table of contents for Harmonious triads : physicists, musicians, and instrument makers in ninteenth-century Germany / Myles W. Jackson.

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1 Introduction  1
2 E. F. F. Chladni: The Nodal Point between Acoustician and
Musical-instrument Maker  13
3 Singing Savants: Music for the Volk  45
4 The Organic versus the Mechanical  75
5 Wilhelm Weber, Reed Pipes, and Adiabatic Phenomena  111
6 The Fetish of Precision I: Scheibler's Tonometer and Tuning
Technique  151
7 The Fetish of Precision II: Standardizing Music  183
8 Physics, Machines, and Musical Pedagogy  231

Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Music Acoustics and physics 19th century, Music Germany 19th century Philosophy and aesthetics, Germany Intellectual life 19th century