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03330aam a2200433 i 4500 001 2094D18EBFA611ECA5AD8FDE3CECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220419010024 008 210607t20212021iluab b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021027261 020 $a 022678777X 020 $a 9780226787770 035 $a (OCoLC)1241245078 040 $a ICU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d ERASA $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-uk-en 050 00 $a ML3805 $b .G53 2021 082 00 $a 781.2/30942 $2 23 100 1 $a Gillin, Edward John, $d 1990- $e author. 245 10 $a Sound authorities : $b scientific and musical knowledge in nineteenth-century Britain / $c Edward J. Gillin. 264 1 $a Chicago : $b The University of Chicago Press, $c 2021. 300 $a x, 308 pages : $b illustrations, map ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Music $z England $x History $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Music and science $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Mathematics $z England $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Sound. 650 7 $a Mathematics. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01012163 650 7 $a Music $x Acoustics and physics. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01030272 650 7 $a Music and science. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01030488 650 7 $a Sound. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01126935 651 7 $a England. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01219920 648 7 $a 1800-1899 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 2 952 $l BRPD251 $d 20240119020145.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117022206.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=2094D18EBFA611ECA5AD8FDE3CECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search