The Age of Electroacoustics : Transforming Science and Sound

At the end of the nineteenth century, acoustics was a science of musical sounds; the musically trained ear was the ultimate reference. Just a few decades into the twentieth century, acoustics had undergone a transformation from a scientific field based on the understanding of classical music to one...

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Auteur principal : Wittje Roland (Auteur)
Format : Livre
Langue : anglais
Titre complet : The Age of Electroacoustics : Transforming Science and Sound / Roland Wittje
Publié : Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England : MIT Press , cop. 2016
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XII-297 p.)
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