The Science of Musical Sounds

by Johan Sundberg, Morton P. Friedman, Edward C. Carterette

Overview

This book is concerned with the scientific aspects of musical sounds. It presents basic acoustics, auditory theory, and sound generation from both a theoretical and a practical view. Room acoustics, sound analysis, recording and reproduction, and sound synthesis as well as cognition are examined from the perspective of music.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780126769487
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	12/11/1991
Series:	Cognition and Perception
Pages:	194
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction.
What is Sound?
Ear and Hearing.
Scales, Tunings, and Temperaments.
Wind Instruments.
String Instruments.
Rod and Membrane Instruments.
Room Acoustics.
Music and Electronics.
Music as Communication.
References.
Index.

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From the Publisher

Demonstrates the scientific aspects of musical sounds.

Editorial Reviews

For musicians and other readers with no technical background, outlines the science behind the production, propagation, perception, and understanding of music. The text is lively and informal, but unfortunately, incoherent and at times totally incomprehensible: digressions that could be interesting background become snarls of several topics at once; figures are wrongly described and vaguely labeled; pronouns are often without antecedent; and conclusions are drawn from broken logical progressions. A potentially fine contribution seems to have been brought low by the lack of a good editor. Part of the problem may be that Sunberg (speech communication and music acoustics, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm) translated himself from the third Swedish edition (1989). Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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