Editor's Summary
8 March 2007
Mood music
In his book Harmonious Triads, historian and cellist Myles Jackson describes a remarkable period in the Germanic states in the early nineteenth century. Music, science and technology combined to produce new instruments, new performance techniques and new ways of thinking. Not all the instruments stood the test of time, but the legacy of this burst of activity can be traced in the science and culture of late nineteenth-century Germany.
Books and Arts: A scientific symphony
doi:10.1038/446140a