Sound and Science

Seashore Measures of Musical Talents 1957: Series-B-5-Rhythm

The audio file is a digitized version of the Seashore Measures of Musical Talents, taken from 1957 long-playing album produced by the Psychological Corporation. This album  [...]

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Seashore Measures of Musical Talents 1957: Series-B-6-Memory

This audio file is a digitized version of the Seashore Measures of Musical Talents, taken from a 1957 long-playing album produced by the Psychological Corporation. This  [...]

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Seashore Measures of Musical Talents 1957: Series-B-4-Timbre

This audio file is a digitized version of the Seashore Measures of Musical Talents, taken from a 1957 long-playing album produced by the Psychological Corporation. This  [...]

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Seashore Measures of Musical Talents 1957: Series-B-3-Time

This audio file is a digitized version of the Seashore Measures of Musical Talents, taken from a 1957 long-playing album produced by the Psychological Corporation. This  [...]

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Seashore Measures of Musical Talents 1957: Series-B-2-Loudness

This audio file is a digitized version of the Seashore Measures of Musical Talents, taken from a 1957 long-playing album produced by the Psychological Corporation. This  [...]

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Seashore Measures of Musical Talents 1957: Series-B-1-Pitch

This audio file is a digitized version of the Seashore Measures of Musical Talents, taken from a 1957 long-playing album produced by the Psychological Corporation. This  [...]

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Seashore Measures of Musical Talents 1939: Series-A-6-Memory

The audio file is a digitized version of the Seashore Measures of Musical Talents, taken from three 1939 78 rpm records album produced by the Psychological  [...]

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Seashore Measures of Musical Talents 1939: Series-A-5-Rhythm

The audio file is a digitized version of the Seashore Measures of Musical Talents, taken from three 1939 78 rpm records album produced by the Psychological  [...]

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Seashore Measures of Musical Talents 1939: Series-A-4-Timbre

The audio file is a digitized version of the Seashore Measures of Musical Talents, taken from three 1939 78 rpm records album produced by the Psychological  [...]

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Seashore Measures of Musical Talents 1939: Series-A-3-Time

The audio file is a digitized version of the Seashore Measures of Musical Talents, taken from three 1939 78 rpm records album produced by the Psychological  [...]

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Seashore Measures of Musical Talents 1939: Series-A-2-Loudness

The audio file is a digitized version of the Seashore Measures of Musical Talents, taken from three 1939 78 rpm records album produced by the Psychological  [...]

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Seashore Measures of Musical Talents 1939: Series-A-1-Pitch

The audio file is a digitized version of the Seashore Measures of Musical Talents, taken from three 1939 78 rpm records album produced by the Psychological  [...]

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Das psychologische Institut

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Sound Recording of a W-22 Word List – 2C

Extract from Mara Mills in Testing Hearing: The Making of Modern Aurality ​​: “An example of a speech-hearing test based on ‘phonetically balanced’ (PB) lists of common monosyllabic words, representing  [...]

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Sound Recording of a W-22 Word List – 2 D

Extract from Mara Mills in Testing Hearing: The Making of Modern Aurality ​​: “An example of a speech-hearing test based on ‘phonetically balanced’ (PB) lists of common monosyllabic words, representing  [...]

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Sound Recording of a W-22 Word List – 1D

Extract from Mara Mills in Testing Hearing: The Making of Modern Aurality ​​: “An example of a speech-hearing test based on ‘phonetically balanced’ (PB) lists of common monosyllabic words, representing  [...]

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“Getting Through“ Album Track 7, Side B

The entire album can be found under the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vqY7cJpwRs&t=16s Image courtesy of Zenith Electronics LLC  [...]

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Sound Recording of a W-22 Word List – 1C

Extract from Mara Mills in Testing Hearing: The Making of Modern Aurality ​​: “An example of a speech-hearing test based on ‘phonetically balanced’ (PB) lists of common monosyllabic words, representing  [...]

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“Getting Through“ Album Track 4, Side A

The entire album can be found under the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vqY7cJpwRs&t=16s Image courtesy of Zenith Electronics LLC  [...]

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“Getting Through“ Album, Track 6, Side B

The entire album can be found under the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vqY7cJpwRs&t=16s Image courtesy of Zenith Electronics LLC  [...]

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“Getting Through“ Album, Track 3, Side A

The full album can be found on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vqY7cJpwRs&t=16s. Image courtesy of Zenith Electronics LLC  [...]

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“Getting Through“ Album Track 1, Side A

The entire album can be found under the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vqY7cJpwRs&t=16s Image courtesy of Zenith Electronics LLC  [...]

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“Getting Through“ Album, Track 8, Side B

The entire album can be found under the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vqY7cJpwRs&t=16s Image courtesy of Zenith Electronics LLC  [...]

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Das absolute Tonbewußtsein und die Musik

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Das absolute Tonbewußtsein und die Musik

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Die systematische Ausbildung des musikalischen Gehörs

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“Getting Through“ Album Track 5, Side B

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“Getting Through“ Album, Track 2, Side A

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Das absolute Tonbewußtsein

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Über vergleichende akustische und musikpsychologische Untersuchungen

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Wilhelm Wundt

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Sigmund Exner

Sigmund Exner is known for his work in comparative physiology and his studies of perception psychology from a physiological standpoint. He conducted important research on the localization of behavioral functionality  [...]

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Philips cartridge

This picture shows a large cartridge holding magnetic tape. It is described on the front as “Philips Functional Music Tempo T151.” Much larger than the consumer-oriented  [...]

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Personal information forms from the Lautarchiv collection

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Experimentelle Überprüfung der Rutz-Sieversschen Typenlehre

Schulte, Hans: “Experimentelle Überprüfung der Rutz-Sieversschen Typenlehre an der Universität Bonn”, in: Archiv für die gesamte Psychologie, vol. 70 issue 1-2, section 119-208, 1929.  [...]

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Experimentelle Überprüfung der Rutz-Sieversschen Typenlehre an der Universität Bonn, 1929

Image from Journal Article: Schulte, Hans: “Experimentelle Überprüfung der Rutz-Sieversschen Typenlehre an der Universität Bonn”, in: Archiv für die gesamte Psychologie, vol. 70 issue 1-2, section 119-208,  [...]

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Neues zu den Rutzschen Reaktionen

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Random Noise Generator Type 1390-B

This picture shows the Random Noise Generator Type 1390-B produced by the General Radio Company in West Concord, MA. A random noise generator is a device  [...]

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Die Lehre von den Tonempfindungen, 1st ed.

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Professor Gruetzmacher (Braunschweig): Das Teilspektrum der Glocke – Side B

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Professor Gruetzmacher (Braunschweig): Das Teilspektrum der Glocke – Side A

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Lässt sich das Restgehör für tiefe Frequenzen dazu verwenden, dass durch  [...]

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Schallplatte Heft 2/3: Hermann Scherchen (Gravesano): Der Einfluß des Mikrophons auf  [...]

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Schallplatte Heft 2/3: Hermann Scherchen (Gravesano): Der Einfluß des Mikrophons auf  [...]

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Hermann Scherchen (Gravesano): Nachhallexperimente des holländischen Staatsradios – Side B

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Hermann Scherchen (Gravesano): Nachhallexperimente des holländischen Staatsradios – Side A

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H.J.L. Struycken

H. J. L. Struycken was a Dutch otolaryngologist, phonetician, and acoustician. After studying medicine in Groningen, in 1893 he started working at the Voorburg psychiatric hospital  [...]

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Stumpf Papers: [Carl Stumpf], [Envelope] 1

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Kranteknipsel [niet compleet]: [Artikel over stiltemaand in Breda], De Kampioen (Officieel  [...]

Explanatory Note and Acknowledgments: The archival documents concerning the history of the Geluidstichting (Sound Foundation) and Nederlands Akoestisch Genootschap (Dutch Society for Acoustics) in the “Sound &  [...]

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Lieder der Bellakula-Indianer

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Tonpsychologie. Volume 2

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The psychology of tone

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Postcard of the Berlin City Palace

Carl Stumpf’s Institute for Psychology in the Berlin City Palace on a postcard from 1920.

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Die Sprachlaute

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Carl Stumpf

Stumpf studied at the University of Würzburg—first aesthetics and law, and later philosophy with Franz Brentano. Because Brentano had not completed the qualifications allowing him to  [...]

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Gutzmann, short writings IV

All the essays are offprints, collated into chronologically arranged bundles by Hermann Gutzmann himself. The list below is a transcription of Gutzmann’s handwritten “table of contents.” The  [...]

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Medizinisch-pädagogische Monatsschrift für die gesammte Sprachheilkunde / Internationales Zentralblatt für Experimentelle  [...]

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Peter Paul Kellogg

Peter Paul Kellogg was professor of ornithology and biological acoustics at Cornell University. Together with Arthur Allen and Albert Brand, he developed new techniques and instruments  [...]

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