Music, sound, and the laboratory from 1750-1980 - Alexandra Hui

The understanding of sound underwent profound changes with the
advent of laboratory science in the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries.New techniques of sound visualization and detection, the use
of electricity to generate sound, and the emergence of computers
radically reshaped the science of acoustics and the practice of music.
The essays in this volume of Osiris explore the manifold transformations
of sound ranging from soundproof rooms to psychoacoustics of seismology
to galvanic music to pedaling technique.They also discuss more general
themes such as the nature of scientific evidence and the development of
instruments and instrumentation.In examining the reciprocity between
music and science, this volume reaches a new register in the evolution
of scientific methodology during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.