| Partial contents |
Basic physical quantities -- Wave motion -- Properties of sound waves -- Pitch, loudness, and quality -- Musical scales -- Stringed instruments -- Wind instruments -- Percussion instruments -- Electrical and electronic instruments and recording systems -- Room acoustics: reverberation time -- Electronic music -- Ultrasonic and underwater acoustics. |
| Contents |
Basic physical quantities. Length ; Time ; Velocity, speed, and acceleration ; Mass ; Force ; Density ; Pressure ; Energy and power ; Summary of terms -- Wave motion. Transverse and longitudinal waves ; Simple harmonic motion ; Summary of terms ; Questions and problems -- Properties of sound waves. Velocity of sound waves ; Doppler effect ; Reflection ; Refraction ; Diffraction ; Interference ; Standing waves ; Beats ; Energy ; Sound intensity ; Inverse square law ; Resonance ; Resonators ; Summary of terms ; Questions and problems -- Pitch, loudness, and quality. The ear ; Pitch ; Loudness ; Frequency and loudness ranges ; Binaural hearing ; Aural or combination tones ; Subjective tones ; Subjective music ; Vibrato and tremolo ; Measurement of pitch: standard pitch ; Pitch range of musical instruments ; Quality or timbre ; Summary of terms ; Questions and problems -- Musical scales. Frequency ratios ; Choosing a musical scale ; Diads and inversions ; Triads ; Other musical chords ; Major, minor, harmonic, melodic, and chromatic scales ; Summary of terms ; Questions and problems -- Stringed instruments. Frequency ; Plucked stringed instruments ; Struck stringed instruments ; Bowed stringed instruments ; Summary of terms ; Questions and problems -- Wind instruments. Modes of oscillation ; Air reed instruments ; Single mechanical reed instruments ; Double mechanical reed instruments ; The lip reed instruments or brass instruments ; The human voice ; Summary of terms ; Questions and problems -- Percussion instruments. Definite pitch instruments ; Indefinite pitch instruments ; Summary of terms ; Questions and problems -- Electrical and electronic instruments and recording systems. Basic electrical instruments ; Electronic instruments ; Electronic systems ; Electrical instruments ; Electronic music instruments ; Summary of terms ; Questions and problems -- Room acoustics: reverberation time. Reverberation time ; Acoustical qualities of concert halls ; Summary of terms ; Questions and problems -- Electronic music. Electronic equipment ; Computers ; Notations in electronic music ; Style analysis by the computer ; The ethics and aesthetics of computer music ; Live performances ; Summary of terms -- Ultrasonic and underwater acoustics. Ultrasonics ; Infrasound ; Summary of terms -- Appendix A. Basic mathematics. Exponents ; Square roots ; Algebra ; Significant figures ; Graphs -- Appendix A. More on subjective music -- Appendix C. More on musical scales. The pentatonic and Pythagorean scales ; Music of other cultures ; The just major scale ; Augmented and diminished intervals ; The just minor scale ; The equitempered scale ; Cents ; Other octave divisions -- Experiments. Length and mass measurement ; Time measurement: the simple pendulum ; Simple harmonic motion ; Crova's disk ; Wave motion and the ripple tank ; Wave properties and the ripple tank ; Velocity of longitudinal waves in a spring ; Velocity of sound in air calculated with an interference tube ; Velocity of sound in a metal rod ; Kundt's table ; Standing waves in stretched strings: Melde's experiment ; Savart's toothed wheel: the major triad frequencies ; Musical intervals ; Vibrating strings: verifying the relation [...] ; Velocity of sound in air ; Resonance in air columns ; Resonant frequency of spherical flasks ; Frequency of tuning forks ; Measurement of frequencies of percussion instruments ; Chladni's figures ; Waveform of a vibrating string: the stroboscope ; Quality of sound waves ; Lissajous figures: the oscilloscope ; Harmonic spectrum: the harmonic wave analyzer ; Measurement of absorption coefficients of various materials ; Reverberation time calculations and measurement ; Ultrasonic waves. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliography (pages 359-362) and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Askill, John. Physics of musical sounds. New York : D. Van Nostrand Co., c1979 |
| LCCN | 78071026 |
| ISBN | 0442203810 |
| ISBN | 9780442203818 |
