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Author
Pub. Date
1976
Physical Desc
xii, 596 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Landmark book by leading expert, hailed for its astonishingly clear, delightfully readable explication of everything acoustical important to music-making. Over 300 illustrations. Examples, experiments, and questions conclude each chapter.
3) Microsound
Author
Publisher
MIT Press
Pub. Date
©2001
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xii, 409 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
A comprehensive presentation of the techniques and aesthetics of composition with sound particles.
Author
Pub. Date
1968
Physical Desc
x, 258 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
As the author mentions in the Preface, the intent of the book is to explain in a non-technical manner the main outlines of parts of science specially related to the questions and problems of music, assuming no previous knowledge either of science or of mathematics on the part of the reader.
Sir James Jeans, who was a noted British scientist, gave a physical analysis of musical sounds, in what is considered to be the best exposition on the subject,...
Author
Pub. Date
1975
Edition
7th ed.
Physical Desc
xiv, 258 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The Physics of Music by ALEXANDER WOOD.PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION: I HOPE that this little book may serve as an introduction for some to the very interesting borderland between physics and music. It is a borderland in which the co-operation of musicians and physicists may have important results for the future of music. The typescript and proofs have been read by Miss Nancy Browne from the point of view of the general reader, and many obscure passages...
Author
Pub. Date
1967
Edition
2d ed.
Physical Desc
xi, 460 pages : illustrations, music ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
This extraordinarily comprehensive text, requiring no special background in physics, math or music, discusses the nature of sound waves, musical instruments, musical notation, acoustic materials, elements of sound reproduction systems - from the telephone to stereo sound systems - and electronic music. Includes 376 figures.
Author
Pub. Date
1967
Physical Desc
ix, 189 pages : illustrations, music ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Related closely to the field of physical acoustics is that of psychoacoustics, which deals with the phenomena of musical hearing from a psychological and aesthetic point of view. One of the major contributors to our understanding of the subject is Fritz Winckel. When this book first appeared in German in 1960, reviewers pressed for an English translation. This Dover volume is an answer to that demand: it makes Professor "Vinckel's important study...
19) Sounds of music
Author
Pub. Date
1976
Physical Desc
6 unnumbered pages, 183 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, music, portraits ; 26 cm
Language
English
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