Broadhouse, John.

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.


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Music--Acoustics and physics

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