Fundamentals of Musical Acoustics

Segunda edición, revisada.

CONTENIDO:

Preliminaries to a Study of Musical Acoustics
- Impulsive Sounds, Alone and in Sequence
- Simple Relations of Sounds and Motions
- Characteristic Frequencies and the Decay of Composite Sound
- Pitch: The Simplest Musical Implication of Characteristic Oscillations
- The Modes of Oscillation of Simple and Composite Systems
- Introduction to Vibration Recipes: The Plucked Strings
- Broad Hammer and Plectra, Soft Hammers, and the Stiffness of Strings
- The Vibrations of Drumheads and Soundboards
Sinusoidally 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 Relationships of Pitch
- Successive Tones: Reverberations, Melodic Relationships, and Musical Scales
- Keyboard Temperaments and Tuning Properties of the Organ, Hapsichord, 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-Valved Octaves, Burrs, Multiphonics, and Wolf Notes
Index