| Edition |
2nd ed. |
| Description |
xvii, 475 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The Nature of Sound -- Acoustics and Music -- Kinds of acoustics -- "... But is it music?" -- Organizing Our Study of Sound -- The Physical Nature of Sound -- The value of wave analogies -- The Speed of Sound -- Pressure and Sound Amplitude -- Waves and Vibrations -- The Time Element in Sound -- Waveforms -- The ubiquitous oscilloscope -- Functional Relations -- Simple Harmonic Oscillation -- Mass and weight -- Work, Energy, and Resonance -- Sources of Sound -- Classifying Sound Sources -- Percussion Instruments -- String Instruments -- Wind Instruments -- Source Size -- Transposing instruments -- Sound from the Natural Environment -- Sound Propagation -- Reflection and Refraction -- Diffraction -- The wave nature of matter -- Outdoor Music -- The Doppler Effect -- Interference and Beats -- Sound Intensity and Its Measurement -- Amplitude, Energy, and Intensity -- Sound Level and the Decibel Scale -- The sound level meter -- Sound levels in music -- The Inverse-Square Law -- Environmental Noise -- Combined Sound Levels and Interference -- Combining amplitudes, intensities, and sound levels -- The Human Ear and Its Response -- The Mechanism of the Human Ear -- Limits of Audibility and Discrimination -- Hearing loss -- Characteristics of Steady Single Tones -- Loudness and Intensity -- The psychophysical law -- Pitch and Frequency -- Pitch and Loudness Together -- Timbre and Instrument Recognition -- Elemental Ingredients Of Music -- Organizing Musical Events in Time -- Melody and Harmony -- Scales and Intervals. |
| Subject |
Music -- Acoustics and physics.
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| ISBN |
0534132480 |
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9780534132484 |
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