Acoustical Measurements on Church-bells and Carillons
Title | Acoustical Measurements on Church-bells and Carillons PDF eBook |
Author | Engelbert Wiegman van Heuven |
Publisher | |
Pages | 176 |
Release | 1949 |
Genre | Bells |
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Science of Percussion Instruments
Title | Science of Percussion Instruments PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas D. Rossing |
Publisher | World Scientific |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9789810241582 |
"What singles this book out is the sheer diversity of instruments covered this is a very welcome book. It is fair to say that the science of percussion instruments would not have advanced anywhere near so far without the tireless enthusiasm and passion of Rossing and his students."Nature, 2001"It forms a very nice survey work on an entire class of musical instruments I recommend it to anyone interested in acoustics and the physics of musical instruments."American Journal of Physics, Sept 2001
Acoustics of Bells
Title | Acoustics of Bells PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas D. Rossing |
Publisher | Van Nostrand Reinhold Company |
Pages | 440 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN |
Acoustical mesurements on church-bells and carillons
Title | Acoustical mesurements on church-bells and carillons PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1949 |
Genre | |
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The Physics of Musical Instruments
Title | The Physics of Musical Instruments PDF eBook |
Author | Neville H. Fletcher |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 629 |
Release | 2012-12-06 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1461229804 |
The history of musical instruments is nearly as old as the history of civilization itself, and the aesthetic principles upon which judgments of musical quality are based are intimately connected with the whole culture within which the instruments have evolved. An educated modem Western player or listener can make critical judgments about particular instruments or particular per formances but, to be valid, those judgments must be made within the appro priate cultural context. The compass of our book is much less sweeping than the first paragraph might imply, and indeed our discussion is primarily confined to Western musical instruments in current use, but even here we must take account of centuries of tradition. A musical instrument is designed and built for the playing of music of a particular type and, conversely, music is written to be performed on particular instruments. There is no such thing as an "ideal" instrument, even in concept, and indeed the unbounded possibilities of modem digital sound-synthesis really require the composer or performer to define a whole set of instruments if the result is to have any musical coherence. Thus, for example, the sound and response of a violin are judged against a mental image of a perfect violin built up from experience of violins playing music written for them over the centuries. A new instrument may be richer in sound quality and superior in responsiveness, but if it does not fit that image then it is not a better violin.
The Acoustically Balanced Carillon
Title | The Acoustically Balanced Carillon PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur Lynds Bigelow |
Publisher | |
Pages | 122 |
Release | 1961 |
Genre | Bells |
ISBN |
Studies in Musical Acoustics and Psychoacoustics
Title | Studies in Musical Acoustics and Psychoacoustics PDF eBook |
Author | Albrecht Schneider |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 452 |
Release | 2016-12-26 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | 3319472925 |
This book comprises twelve articles which cover a range of topics from musical instrument acoustics to issues in psychoacoustics and sound perception as well as neuromusicology. In addition to experimental methods and data acquisition, modeling (such as FEM or wave field synthesis) and numerical simulation plays a central role in studies addressing sound production in musical instruments as well as interaction of radiated sound with the environment. Some of the studies have a focus on psychoacoustic aspects in regard to virtual pitch and timbre as well as apparent source width (for techniques such as stereo or ambisonics) in music production. Since musical acoustics imply subjects playing instruments or singing in order to produce sound according to musical structures, this area is also covered including a study that presents an artificial intelligent agent capable to interact with a real ('analog') player in musical genres such as traditional and free jazz.