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Measured tones : the interplay of physics and music / by Ian Johnston.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Bristol ; Philadelphia : Institute of Physics Publishing, 1989Description: xi, 397 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0852742363
  • 9780852742365
  • 0852742355
  • 9780852742358
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 781.1
LOC classification:
  • ML3805 .J63 1989
Contents:
List of tables -- Prologue -- 1. Why these and not others? -- Length of strings -- Harmonious intervals -- Pythagoras -- Pentatonic and Pythagorean scales -- Ptolemy -- Boethius -- 2. Music and scientific method -- Medieval music -- Josquin -- Copernicus -- Kepler -- Galileo -- Vibrations -- Pendulums and strings -- Consonance -- Measurement of frequency -- Standards of pitch -- Interlude 1: Brass instruments -- 3. The harmonies of a mechanical universe -- Mechanical forces -- Energy -- Oscillation theory -- Mersenne's Laws -- Baroque music -- Instruments -- Equal temperament -- Interlude 2: The piano -- 4. Overtones of enlightenment -- Newton and the Age of Reason -- Visualization of oscillations -- Overtones -- Harmonic analysis and synthesis -- Rameau and harmony -- End of the Enlightenment -- Interlude 3: The violin -- 5. Over the waves -- Wave theory -- Speed of sound -- Wave properties: reflection, absorption, diffraction -- Huygens and Young -- Standing waves -- Interlude 4: Acoustics in architecture -- 6. The romance of electricity -- The Romantic movement -- Study of electricity, Faraday -- Acoustics -- Energy coupling and acoustic impedance -- Mismatch theorem -- Standing waves in air columns -- Interlude 5: Woodwind instruments -- 7. Summertime in Heidelberg -- Wagner and Helmholtz -- Theory of resonance -- Working of the ear -- Pitch recognition and discrimination -- Psycho-acoustics -- Theory of consonance -- Interlude 6: Percussion instruments -- 8. O brave new world -- Communication devices: microphones, gramophones, valves, transistors -- Effect on music -- Modern sound engineering: frequency response, transients -- Technology -- Interlude 7: Electronic instruments -- 9. I think, therefore I am -- Theory of communication -- Information -- Computers -- Computer composition -- Interlude 8: Sublimest of instruments, the voice -- Epilogue -- App. 1. Musical notation -- App. 2. Logarithms -- App. 3. Measurement of pitch intervals -- App. 4. Measurement of loudness -- App. 5. Acoustic impedance -- App. 6. Pentatonic scales -- Bibliography -- Accompanying web site -- Index.
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"Reprinted with corrections 1993"--Verso t.p.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 378-383) and index.

List of tables -- Prologue -- 1. Why these and not others? -- Length of strings -- Harmonious intervals -- Pythagoras -- Pentatonic and Pythagorean scales -- Ptolemy -- Boethius -- 2. Music and scientific method -- Medieval music -- Josquin -- Copernicus -- Kepler -- Galileo -- Vibrations -- Pendulums and strings -- Consonance -- Measurement of frequency -- Standards of pitch -- Interlude 1: Brass instruments -- 3. The harmonies of a mechanical universe -- Mechanical forces -- Energy -- Oscillation theory -- Mersenne's Laws -- Baroque music -- Instruments -- Equal temperament -- Interlude 2: The piano -- 4. Overtones of enlightenment -- Newton and the Age of Reason -- Visualization of oscillations -- Overtones -- Harmonic analysis and synthesis -- Rameau and harmony -- End of the Enlightenment -- Interlude 3: The violin -- 5. Over the waves -- Wave theory -- Speed of sound -- Wave properties: reflection, absorption, diffraction -- Huygens and Young -- Standing waves -- Interlude 4: Acoustics in architecture -- 6. The romance of electricity -- The Romantic movement -- Study of electricity, Faraday -- Acoustics -- Energy coupling and acoustic impedance -- Mismatch theorem -- Standing waves in air columns -- Interlude 5: Woodwind instruments -- 7. Summertime in Heidelberg -- Wagner and Helmholtz -- Theory of resonance -- Working of the ear -- Pitch recognition and discrimination -- Psycho-acoustics -- Theory of consonance -- Interlude 6: Percussion instruments -- 8. O brave new world -- Communication devices: microphones, gramophones, valves, transistors -- Effect on music -- Modern sound engineering: frequency response, transients -- Technology -- Interlude 7: Electronic instruments -- 9. I think, therefore I am -- Theory of communication -- Information -- Computers -- Computer composition -- Interlude 8: Sublimest of instruments, the voice -- Epilogue -- App. 1. Musical notation -- App. 2. Logarithms -- App. 3. Measurement of pitch intervals -- App. 4. Measurement of loudness -- App. 5. Acoustic impedance -- App. 6. Pentatonic scales -- Bibliography -- Accompanying web site -- Index.

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