Author: Ian Johnston
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Keywords: music, second, physics, interplay, tones, measured
Number of Pages: 420
Published: 2002-03-01
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 0750307625
ISBN-13: 9780750307628
There has always been a close connection between physics and music. From the great days of ancient Greek science, ideas and speculations have passed backward and forward between natural philosophers (physicists) and musical theorists. Measured Tones: The Interplay of Physics and Music, Second Edition explores the story of that relationship in an entertaining and user-friendly way. The book provides an easy-to-understand introduction to the physics involved in every stage of the music making process: from the very earliest experiments on vibrating strings and primitive sound makers to the la
Author: Ian Johnsto
Publisher: CRC Pre
Keywords: music, third, physics, interplay, tones, measured
Number of Pages: 454
Published: 2009-06-01
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 1420093479
ISBN-13: 9781420093476
Most books concerned with physics and music take an approach that puts physical theory before application. Consequently, these works tend to dampen aesthetic fascination with preludes burdened by an overabundance of algebraic formulae. In Measured Tones: The Interplay of Physics and Music Third Edition, Ian Johnston a professor of astrophysics and a connoisseur of music, offers an informal historical approach that shows the evolution of both theory and application at the intersection of physics and music. Exceptionally accessible, insightful, and now updated to consider modern technology and r
Author: Ruby Cohn
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: drama, recent, interplay, american, anglo
Number of Pages: 202
Published: 1995-01-27
List price: $110.00
ISBN-10: 0521472679
ISBN-13: 9780521472678
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Publisher: Labor et Fides
Keywords: science, theology, studies, worldviews, scientific, theological, interplay
Published: 1999
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 2830909151
ISBN-13: 9782830909159
Author: Naomi Zack
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: thinking, gender, interplay, difference, sex, sameness, race
Number of Pages: 236
Published: 1997-01-08
List price: $35.95
ISBN-10: 0415915902
ISBN-13: 9780415915908
Race/Sex is the first forum for combined discussion of racial theory and gender theory. In sixteen articles, avant-garde scholars of African American philosophy and liberatory criticism explore and explode the categories of race, sex and gender into new trajectories that include sexuality, black masculinity and mixed-race identity.
Author: Sir Michael Rutter
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: interplay, explained, nurture, nature, behavior, genes
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2006-02-14
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 1405110619
ISBN-13: 9781405110617
In this major new book, eminent scientist Professor Sir Michael Rutter gets behind the hype of the behavioral genetics debate to provide a balanced and authoritative overview of the genetic revolution and its implications for understanding human behavior. Written by one of the world’s leading figures in child psychology and psychiatry, Professor Sir Michael RutterProvides non-technical explanation of genetics to diffuse the sensational debates surrounding the topicSets out in layman’s terms what genes do, how much is nature and how much is nurtureArgues that nature and nurture are
Author: Siglind Bruhn
Publisher: Pendragon Pr
Keywords: hindemith, interplay, hesse, kepler, order, world, musical
Number of Pages: 255
Published: 2005-10-30
List price: $36.00
ISBN-10: 1576471179
ISBN-13: 9781576471173
In the disastrous years before and during the Second World War, when confidence in a harmonious future was as difficult as it was crucial for spiritual survival, two German artists in exile wrote what would become their late masterpieces. The composer Paul Hindemith conceived an opera on the famous astronomer Johannes Kepler s mature life and theories, The Harmony of the World; the poet and novelist Hermann Hesse wrote a complex literary collage, The Glass Bead Game. Both works address the topic of universal harmony in the fabric of creation and culture, as well as the urgent problem of how su
