...Benjamin Steege Myles W. Jackson Harmonious Triads: Physicists, Musicians, and Instrument Makers in Nineteenth-Century Germany MIT Press, 2006: x+395 pp. ($40.00 cloth, $23.00 paper) Matthias Rieger Helmholtz Musicus: Die Objektivierung der Musik im 19. Jahrhundert durch Helmholtz' Lehre...

...Benjamin Steege Hermann von Helmholtz's theory of melodic “affinity,” which he considered his primary contribution to music-theoretical thought, is inherently historicist in its conception. It seeks not only to explain local tonal relationships but also to provide a rationale for transhistorical...

... of Hermann von Helmholtz's On the Sensations of Tone , used the concertina as a demonstration tool in public lectures intended to popularize Helmholtz's acoustic theories. The English concertina's history reveals the peculiar fissures and overlaps between scientific and popular cultures, speculative...

... David . 2018 . Helmholtz: A Life in Science . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Carter Stewart . 2016 . “ The Editor from Hell: Information and Misinformation on Chinese Music in Late Eighteenth-Century France .” In Music in Eighteenth-Century Culture , edited by Morrow Mary...

... und der Metrik . Leipzig : Breitkopf und Härtel . Helmholtz Hermann . 1870 . Die Lehre von den Tonempfindungen als physiologische Grundlage für die Theorie der Musik . 3rd rev. ed. Brunswick : Vieweg . ———. [1877] 1885 . On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis...

..., such as Ellis’s cents (Helmholtz 1983, 431). I will use the abbreviation ¢ to express specific interval size in cents. Generic intervals will be indi- cated by the term span. The term step signifies a generic interval whose 4 span is one. A “third” has a span of two, a “fourth” of three, and so...

... . Trans. Knox T. M. . Oxford : Clarendon Press . Helmholtz Hermann . 1863 . Die Lehre von den Tonempfindungen als physiologische Grundlage für die Theorie der Musik . Braunschweig : F. Vieweg und Sohn . ———. 1867 . Handbuch der physiologischen Optik . Leipzig : L. Voss...

... is described at greater length in Christensen 1992 . 5 Christensen intriguingly credits Fétis with inspiring Helmholtz to acknowledge the limits of scientism (216–17). 4 Put another (anachronistic) way: Monteverdi was the first to make appellative relations functional. 3...

... Natur der Harmonik und der Metrik of 1853. To a considerable ex- tent this meant getting beyond Hauptmann’s dialectical language. Rie- mann did not succeed in this entirely but did manage, in his dissertation, a kind of verbal polyphony—a blend of Oettingen, Helmholtz, and Haupt- mann—that gave him...

... by Riemann, with commentary. The first, by Benjamin Steege, occupies itself with Rie- mann’s paper “The Nature of Harmony” (1882). Steege highlights the pro- cess by which Riemann freed himself from both physics and the physiology of Helmholtz, without wanting to deny either its proper sphere. What...

... Helmholtz, Carl Stumpf, and Ernst Mach study 102 Journal of Music Theory with the relative frequencies 1, 5, and 3, and Schoenberg says that harmonic relations “are expressed by fractions” (HL, 21). Since the frequency of a ground tone...