The Sense of Tact
Hoffmann, Maelzel, and Mechanical Music
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9856885 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anders Engberg-Pedersen (0000-0002-6268-6197, Russian State Agrarian Correspondence University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 93 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 351-372 |
| Publication date | 2018-10-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Germanic Review Literature Culture Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-8890 • E-ISSN: 1930-6962 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00168890.2018.1507993 |
| OpenAlex | W2567499878 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
This essay examines the notion of tact at the intersection of technology, music, and literature around 1800. Focusing on E.T.A. Hoffmann’s Der Sandmann and Die Automate, it situates his texts in the longer history of musical automata in the eighteenth century and alongside the invention of the metronome by Dietrich Nikolaus Winkel and Johann Nepomuk Maelzel in the early 19th century. This mechanization of music spurred debates about the problem of aesthetic order among composers and music critics, specifically about different conceptions of musical tact. Against this background the article reads Hoffmann’s texts as an attempt to articulate an inner sense of tact at once dependent on and irreducible to the mechanical musical instruments of his contemporaries
Developmental psychology · Tact · Music Technology and Sound Studies · Musicology and Musical Analysis · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |