“The Nature of Harmony”

A Translation and Commentary

Datos Bibliográficos

ID23596388
AutoresBenjamin Steege (Columbia University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2012
Páginas55-91
Fecha de publicación2012-09-18
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoCHAPTER
RevistaThe Oxford handbook of neo-Riemannian music theories (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195321333.013.0002
OpenAlexW2729716092
ISBN9780195321333
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas21

This article provides and introduction and translation of Riemann's “The Nature of Harmony”. The translation in this article provides an easy access to an important Riemann's own theoretical evolution, which was written at the moment when a budding psychological perspective was beginning to supersede Riemann's earlier acoustical and physiological perspective. Just as Riemann attempts to place his theoretical program within a historical trajectory, the article locates his work within the wider and broader historical and intellectual discourse of nineteenth-century physics, physiology, and psychology, highlighting the implied and overt polemics with Helmholtz and others that course through its pages.

Art · Epistemology · Geometry · Harmony (color) · Helmholtz free energy · Perspective (graphical) · Physics · Pure mathematics · Riemann hypothesis · Sociology · Visual arts · Historical and Literary Studies · History and Theory of Mathematics · Mathematics · Philosophy · Philosophy, Science, and History