Music, Sound and Sensation

In this book an attempt will be made to find the relationships in the laws of nature which are responsible for musical perception.

The more deeply one penetrates into the world of tones, the more clearly one sees that one is dealing with an elastic, finely structured organism, possessing many possibilities of effect. Surprisingly enough, an analysis penetrating to the ultimate atomic particles of the sounding tissue escapes human observation, just as does a submicroscopic analysis in atomic physics and biology. However, there are clearly marked boundaries where sense perception stops, and where recognition by means of mathematical processing of the ultimate vibratory events begins.