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Fundamentals of musical acoustics / Arthur H. Benade.

By: Benade, Arthur H.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Oxford University Press, 1975Description: xii, 596 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0195020308.Subject(s): Music -- Acoustics and physicsDDC classification: 534
Contents:
Preliminaries to the study of musical acoustics -- Impulsive sounds, alone in sequence -- Simple relations of sounds and motions -- Characteristic frequencies and the decay of composite sounds -- Pitch:the simpliest musical implication of characteristic oscillations -- The models of oscillation of simple and composite systems -- Introduction to vibration recipes: the plucked string -- Broad hammers and plectra, soft hammers and the stiffness of strings -- The vibrations of drumheads and soundboards -- Sinuosoidally driven oscillations -- Room acoustics I:excitation of the modes and the transmission of impulses -- Room acoustics II:the listener and the room -- The loudness of single and combined sounds -- The acoustical phenomena governing the musical relationship of pitch -- Successive tones:reverberations, melodic relationships and musical scales -- Keyboard temperaments and tuning properties of the organ, harpsichord and piano -- Sound production in pianos -- The clavichord and the harpsichord -- The voice as a musical instrument -- The brass wind instruments -- The woodwinds I -- The woodwinds II -- The oscillations of a bowed string -- Instruments of the violin family -- Half haved octaves, burrs, multiphonics and wolf notes.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
General Lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 534 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00038007
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Addressed most directly to those people with a reasonable playing knowledge of music who wish to learn something of the ways in which music as an art form is related to our understanding of vibrating objects, of the study of auditory perception, and of the craft of the instrument maker.

Includes index.

Preliminaries to the study of musical acoustics -- Impulsive sounds, alone in sequence -- Simple relations of sounds and motions -- Characteristic frequencies and the decay of composite sounds -- Pitch:the simpliest musical implication of characteristic oscillations -- The models of oscillation of simple and composite systems -- Introduction to vibration recipes: the plucked string -- Broad hammers and plectra, soft hammers and the stiffness of strings -- The vibrations of drumheads and soundboards -- Sinuosoidally driven oscillations -- Room acoustics I:excitation of the modes and the transmission of impulses -- Room acoustics II:the listener and the room -- The loudness of single and combined sounds -- The acoustical phenomena governing the musical relationship of pitch -- Successive tones:reverberations, melodic relationships and musical scales -- Keyboard temperaments and tuning properties of the organ, harpsichord and piano -- Sound production in pianos -- The clavichord and the harpsichord -- The voice as a musical instrument -- The brass wind instruments -- The woodwinds I -- The woodwinds II -- The oscillations of a bowed string -- Instruments of the violin family -- Half haved octaves, burrs, multiphonics and wolf notes.

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