The True Science Of Music: Being a New Exposition of the Laws of Melody and Harmony - Couverture souple

Hewitt, D. C.

 
9781108038669: The True Science Of Music: Being a New Exposition of the Laws of Melody and Harmony
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1108038662 ISBN 13 : 9781108038669
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2011

Synopsis

First published in 1864, this work discusses aspects of the physics of music, in particular the mathematics of musical intervals.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The physics of music has fascinated scholars and scientists since ancient times, from Pythagoras' concept of celestial harmony, to the work of Galileo, Mersenne, Euler and Ohm, culminating in the nineteenth century in Helmholtz's definitive work, On the Sensations of Tone. Daniel Chandler Hewitt (1789–1869) was a piano maker who also devised improvements to the seraphine (a form of reed organ). This idiosyncratic work, first published in 1864, only a year after Helmholtz's German text (also reissued in this series in the 1875 English translation), discusses the mathematics of musical intervals according to Hewitt's 'Triune', or three-fold, system of calculation using his Musical Ratiometer (included at the end of the volume). Musical examples, gathered at the end of the work, illustrate his arguments and include a close analysis of the intervals and chord structures of the Moonlight and the Appassionata piano sonatas by Beethoven.

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1108038662
ISBN 13 
9781108038669
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
514
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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