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Sound Knowledge - Music and Science in London, 1789-1851 (Hardcover)
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Sound Knowledge - Music and Science in London, 1789-1851 (Hardcover)
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What does it mean to hear scientifically? What does it mean to see
musically? This volume uncovers a new side to the long nineteenth
century in London, a hidden history in which virtuosic musical
entertainment and scientific discovery intersected in remarkable
ways.Sound Knowledge examines how scientific truth was accrued by
means of visual and aural experience, and, in turn, how musical
knowledge was located in relation to empirical scientific practice.
James Q. Davies and Ellen Lockhart gather work by leading scholars
to explore a crucial sixty-year period, beginning with Charles
Burney's ambitious General History of Music, a four-volume study of
music around the globe, and extending to the Great Exhibition of
1851, where musical instruments were assembled alongside the
technologies of science and industry in the immense glass-encased
collections of the Crystal Palace. Importantly, as the
contributions show, both the power of science and the power of
music relied on performance, spectacle, and experiment. Ultimately,
this volume sets the stage for a new picture of modern
disciplinarity, shining light on an era before the division of
aural and visual knowledge.
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