Musical acoustics : or the phenomena of sound as connected with music /
John Broadhouse.
- 5th impression.
- London : W. Reeves, 1926.
- xii, 440 p. : ill. ; 19 cm. + hbk.
Includes index.
Sensation and external cause of sound -- Transmission of sound -- Nature of wave motion in general -- Application of the wave theory of sound -- Resonance -- The analysis of compound sounds -- Helmholtz theory of musical quality -- The motions of sounding strings -- The motion of sounding air columns -- The human voice -- Beats -- Helmholtz theory of consonance and dissonance -- Combinational tones -- Consonant chords -- Scales and temperaments -- Systems of pitch notation.