Tone Psychology: Volume I: The Sensation of Successive Single Tones

ISBN-13: 9780367777043 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 304 str.

Carl Stumpf

Opis

Carl Stumpf (1848-1936) was a German philosopher and psychologist and a visionary and important academic. Stumpf's intention, as evident in his book, Tone Psychology, was to investigate the phenomenon of tone sensation in order to understand the general psychic functions and processes underlying the perception of sound and music.

Spis treści

One: Sensory Judgements in General 1. Sensation and Judgement. Doctrine of Relativity 2. Reliability of Sensory Judgements 3. Measurement of Reliability and its Factors 4. Attention, Practice, Fatigue 5. Mediating Sensory Judgements. Transferences 6. Analysis and Comparison 7. Comparisons of Distances. Judgements that Presuppose a Standpoint Two: The Judgement of Successive Tones 8. Immediate Judgement of Tonal Qualities 9. Application of Mediating Criteria 10. Infinity and Continuity of the Tonal Domain 11. "Height and Depth". Features that Change in Parallel with the Tonal Quality 12. Conditions of Reliability 13. Individuality of Sense and Memory for Tonal Qualities 14. Series of Experiments concerning Particular Classes of Judgement 15. The Judgement of Intensities

O autorze

Carl Stumpf (1848-1936) was a German philosopher and psychologist.