Sound Authorities

preview-18
  • Sound Authorities Book Detail

  • Author : Edward J. Gillin
  • Release Date : 2022-02-11
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 319
  • ISBN 13 : 022678777X
  • File Size : 96,96 MB

Sound Authorities by Edward J. Gillin PDF Summary

Book Description: "In Sound Authorities, Edward J. Gillin shows how experiences of music and sound played a crucial role in nineteenth-century scientific inquiry in Britain. Where other studies have focused on vision in Victorian England, Gillin focuses on hearing and aurality, making the claim that the development of the natural sciences in Britain in this era cannot be understood without attending to how the study of sound and music contributed to the fashioning of new scientific knowledge. Gillin's book is about how scientific practitioners attempted to fashion themselves as authorities on sonorous phenomena, coming into conflict with traditional musical elites as well as religious bodies. Gillin pays attention to not only musical sound but also the phenomenon of sound in non-musical contexts, specifically, the cacophony of British industrialization, and he analyzes the debates between figures from disparate fields over the proper account of musical experience. Gillin's story begins with the place of acoustics in early nineteenth-century London, examining scientific exhibitions, lectures, and spectacles, as well as workshops, laboratories, and showrooms. He goes on to explore how mathematicians mobilized sound in their understanding of natural laws and their vision of a harmonious order, as well as the convergence of aesthetic and scientific approaches to pitch standardization. In closing, Gillin delves into the era's religious and metaphysical debates over the place of music (and humanity) in nature, the relationship between music and the divine, and the tension between religious/spiritualist understandings of sound and scientific/materialist ones"--

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Sound Authorities books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

Sound Authorities

Sound Authorities

File Size : 26,26 MB
Total View : 1575 Views
DOWNLOAD

"In Sound Authorities, Edward J. Gillin shows how experiences of music and sound played a crucial role in nineteenth-century scientific inquiry in Britain. Wher

The Victorian Palace of Science

The Victorian Palace of Science

File Size : 28,28 MB
Total View : 5232 Views
DOWNLOAD

Edward J. Gillin explores the extraordinary role of scientific knowledge in the building of the Houses of Parliament in Victorian Britain.

An Empire of Magnetism

An Empire of Magnetism

File Size : 97,97 MB
Total View : 2291 Views
DOWNLOAD

During the 1840s and 1850s, the British government financed a world-wide investigation into how the Earth's magnetic phenomena operated, consisting of a network

An Empire of Magnetism

An Empire of Magnetism

File Size : 42,42 MB
Total View : 6401 Views
DOWNLOAD

This book offers an in-depth, global history of the British Magnetic Survey - the nineteenth-century, British-government-funded efforts to measure and understan