On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music

By: Hermann L. F. Helmholtz, Alexander J. Ellis (Translator)

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Paperback | 24 November 2011 | Edition Number 3

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Hermann von Helmholtz (1821 94) was a leading scientist who made important contributions to physiology, psychology, physics, philosophy and early neuroscience. Following his foundational work in ophthalmics during the 1850s, he became Professor of Physiology at Heidelberg and, in 1863, published On the Sensations of Tone. This investigation into the physical theory of music remains a central text for the study of physiological acoustics and aesthetics. In it, Helmholtz applies physics, anatomy and physiology. He explains how tones are built from a base tone with upper partial tones, and his later discussions on consonance and musical scales develop this theory and discuss how the ear perceives these tones. His work on consonance and dissonance was of particular interest to composers and musicologists well into the twentieth century. This English translation, published in 1875 from the third German edition, retains the original's straightforward language, making this classic work accessible to non-specialists."

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Notice by the translator
Author's preface to the first German edition
Author's preface to the third German edition
Introduction
On the Composition of Vibrations
On the sensation of sound in general
On the composition of vibrations
Analysis of musical tones by sympathetic resonance
On the analysis of musical tones by the ear
On the differences in the quality of musical tones
On the apprehension of qualities of tone
On the Interruptions of Harmony
Combinational tones
On the beats of simple tones
Depth and deepest tones
Beats of the upper partial tones
Beats due to combinational tones
Chords
The Relationship of Musical Tones
General view of the different principles of musical style in the development of music
The tonality of homophonic music
The consonant chords of the tonal modes
The system of keys
Of discords
Laws of progression of parts
Esthetical relations
Appendices
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