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On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music

On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music

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Helmholtz's most famous work

ref:15.9, concise definition of tone vs. noise: "The sensation of a musical tone is due to a rapid periodic motion of the sonorous body; the sensation of a noise to non-periodic motions."