Carl Stumpf Research on Tone Psychology

In the first two decades of the twentieth century, psychologist Carl Stumpf and his colleagues at the Institute of Psychology in Berlin made the phonograph into a research tool for tone psychology, as is documented by a collection of roughly a hundred Experimentalwalzen (experimental cylinders). Today, these cylinders are preserved at the Phonogramm-Archiv in Berlin. Digital copies of some of the cylinders are available through our database, accompanied by a selection of Stumpf’s laboratory notebooks, documenting his interest in technologies of sound analysis and synthesis. In addition, the database holds published writings on scientific sound recording by Stumpf and his close collaborators.

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Stumpf, Carl. 1926. Die Sprachlaute. Experimentell-Phonetische Untersuchungen. Berlin: Julius Springer.
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Stumpf, Carl. (10.08.1919AD) 1919. “Bericht Von Geheimrat Stumpf An Die Preußische Phonographische Kommission”. http://www.dhm.de/datenbank/dhm.php?seite=5&fld_0=98003912.
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Today the Phonogramm-Archiv (“phonogram archive”) encompasses around 150,000 sound recordings; it also holds textual and photographic documents and some historical recording and playback devices. Initiated in 1900 by psychologists Carl Stumpf and Erich Moritz von Hornbostel, the Phonogramm-Archiv started as a private collection, based at Stumpf’s Institute of Psychology at the University of Berlin.

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Stumpf, Carl. (10.08.1919AD) 1919. “Bericht Von Geheimrat Stumpf An Die Preußische Phonographische Kommission”. http://www.dhm.de/datenbank/dhm.php?seite=5&fld_0=98003912.
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Stumpf, Carl. 1912. “The Psychology Of Tone”. In The Classical Psychologists. Selections Illustrating Psychology From Anaxagoras To Wundt, Benjamin Rand, Benjamin Rand, 619-632. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Stumpf, Carl. 1883. Tonpsychologie. Volume 2. Vol. 2. 2 vol.. Leipzig: S. Hirzel.
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Stumpf, Carl. (1886) 1886. “Lieder Der Bellakula-Indianer”. Vierteljahresschrift Für Musikwissenschaft 2: 406-426.
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Stumpf, Carl. (22.02.1908AD) 1908. “Internationale Wochenschrift Für Wissenschaft Kunst Und Technik”, 225-246.
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Stumpf, Carl. (1901) 1901. Beiträge Zur Akustik Und Musikwissenschaft 3.