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    On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music (German Die Lehre von den Tonempfindungen als physiologische Grundlage für...
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    Foundations of Sound". Retrieved 11 March 2017. Helmholtz, H.; Ellis, A.J. "The History of Musical Pitch in Europe". On the Sensations of Tone. Translated...
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  • der Musik [The Study of the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Foundation for the Theory of Music (alt: The Sensation of Tones)] (in German). J. Vieweg...
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    Hermann von Helmholtz (category Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences)
    the eye, theories of vision, ideas on the visual perception of space, colour vision research, the sensation of tone, perceptions of sound, and empiricism...
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  • Helmholtz wrote in On the Sensations of Tone that a Chinese prince (see below) introduced a scale of seven notes, and that the division of the octave into twelve...
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  • Blue note (redirect from Blue tone)
    OCLC 18071070. Helmholtz, Hermann von. On the sensations of tone as a physiological basis for the theory of music. Ellis, Alexander John, 1814-1890. (Second...
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  • (45:54:64) in the notation system used in On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music. Play Perfect, Preferred (5-limit major)...
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    Overtone (redirect from Upper partial tone)
    "On The Sensations Of Tone" he used the German "Obertöne" which was a contraction of "Oberpartialtöne", or in English: "upper partial tones". According...
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  • philosopher. His book On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music is a revolutionary compendium of several studies and approaches...
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    ISBN 978-0-19-537707-1. Hermann von Helmholtz (1885). On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music. Translated by Alexander John Ellis (2nd ed...
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    Hawking (ed.). Harmonies of the World. Running Press. p. 22. ISBN 0-7624-2018-9. Hermann von Helmholtz (1912). On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological...
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  • Hermann L. F.; Ellis, Alexander J. (1875). On the sensations of tone as a physiological basis for the theory of music. London, UK: Longmans, Green, and Co....
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    Harry Partch (category Inventors of musical instruments)
    standard twelve-tone equal temperament of Western concert music when he discovered a translation of Hermann von Helmholtz's Sensations of Tone. The book pointed...
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    into English by A.J. Ellis as On the Sensations of Tone (1875). Helmholtz based his notation on the practice of German organ builders for labelling their...
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    ISBN 978-0-8218-4873-9. Helmholtz, Hermann (1954). On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music. Translated by Ellis, Alexander J. New...
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  • Cent (music) (category Units of level)
    the system in his 1875 edition of Hermann von Helmholtz's On the Sensations of Tone. It has become the standard method of representing and comparing musical...
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  • chord consists of a generator with lower major third and fifth. Hermann von Helmholtz observed in On the Sensations of Tone that the tone of a string tuned...
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  • Helmholtz, Hermann (1954). On the Sensations of Tone. Dover Publications. ISBN 0-486-60753-4. Partch, Harry (1974). Genesis of a Music. Da Capo Press. ISBN 0-306-80106-X...
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    Alexander Graham Bell (category Alumni of the University of Edinburgh)
    correspondence. Helmholtz's The Sensations of Tone is credited with inspiring Bell, at the age of 23, to further his studies of electricity and electromagnetism...
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    Sensations of Tone an apparatus able to pick out specific frequencies from a complex sound. The Helmholtz resonator, as it is now called, consists of...
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  • von Helmholtz, H.L.; Ellis, A.J. (1954). On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music. Translated by Ellis, A.J. (reprint ed...
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    Sedley Taylor (category Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge)
    of the coloured striations of the liquid film. Taylor's translated into English Hermann von Helmholtz's 1862 classical treatise on the sensations of tone...
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  • partials of such compound tones". Helmholtz 1895, p. 182. Helmholtz, Hermann L. F. On the Sensations of Tone as a Theoretical Basis for the Theory of Music...
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    Following the method of notation suggested by Helmholtz in his classic On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music, incorporating...
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    Grundlage für die Theorie der Musik [On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music]. Translated by Ellis, A.J. (4 ed.). Whitefish...
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    Johann Scheibler (category Scientists from the Kingdom of Prussia)
    exactness of equally tempered and mathematical chords, invented and executed by Heinrich Scheibler, silk manufacturer in Crefeld.' — Sensations of Tone (1885)...
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    Pump organ (category Sets of free reeds)
    In 1875, Hermann von Helmholtz published his seminal book, On the Sensations of Tone, in which he used the harmonium extensively to test different tuning...
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    Savart (category Units of level)
    for exchange of long-term ambient sound data. JASA Express Letters, 1(1), 011203. Hermann von Helmholtz (1912). On the sensations of tone as a physiological...
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  • Alexander J. (1885), On the Sensations of Tone (Second English ed.), Dover Publications, p. 435. On the Sensations of Tone at the Internet Archive Lindley...
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  • Microtone (music) (category Pages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets via Module:Annotated link)
    in the 1880s produced a translation of Hermann Helmholtz's On the Sensations of Tone, proposed an elaborate set of exotic just intonation tunings and non-harmonic...
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