The Musician's Guide to Acoustics

by Campbell, Murray; Greated, Clive

• ISBN13: 9780198165057
• ISBN10: 0198165056
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-04-28
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	1	(4)
The Creation and Transmission of Musical Sounds	5	(34)
Sources of musical sounds	5	(17)
Transmission of sound	22	(17)
Hearing Musical Sounds	39	(30)
The outer ear	40	(2)
The middle ear	42	(6)
The inner ear	48	(14)
Distortion in the ear	62	(7)
Anatomy of a Musical Note	69	(96)
Pitch	70	(29)
Loudness	99	(42)
Timbre	141	(24)
Playing in Tune	165	(18)
Consonance and dissonance	165	(5)
Origin of scales	170	(2)
Just diatonic scale	172	(4)
Tempered scales	176	(7)
Sound Production in Musical Instruments	183	(20)
Classification of musical instruments	183	(4)
Resonance	187	(3)
Impedance and coupling	190	(2)
Waves on a string	192	(2)
Waves in tubes	194	(9)
Bowed and Plucked Stringed Instruments	203	(30)
The violin	203	(13)
Other members of the violin family	216	(3)
The viols	219	(1)
The lute	219	(2)
The guitar	221	(5)
Other members of the guitar family	226	(1)
The harp	227	(6)
Stringed Keyboard Instruments	233	(26)
Clavichord	234	(2)
Harpsichord family	236	(5)
The piano	241	(11)
Tuning keyboard instruments	252	(7)
Woodwind Instruments	259	(44)
Reed woodwinds	259	(2)
Shawms and crumhorns	261	(3)
The clarinet	264	(7)
The saxophone	271	(1)
The oboe	272	(3)
The bassoon	275	(3)
Bagpipes	278	(2)
The flute	280	(16)
Fipple flutes	296	(7)
Brass Instruments	303	(106)
The lip reed	304	(24)
The shapes of brass instruments	328	(22)
Crooks, slides and valves	350	(8)
Instruments with predominantly conical bore	358	(15)
Instruments with predominantly cylindrical bore	373	(18)
Instruments with hybrid bore	391	(7)
Muting and hand-stopping on brass instruments	398	(6)
The effects of bell material, treatment, thickness and finish	404	(5)
Percussion Instruments	409	(44)
Drums	410	(19)
Tuned idiophones	429	(16)
Triangle, cymbal and gong	445	(8)
Organs	453	(18)
Pipe organs	453	(11)
Reed organs	464	(7)
The Human Voice	471	(26)
The voice organ	471	(3)
The vocal sound source	474	(4)
Vocal tract resonances	478	(5)
Special techniques of trained singers	483	(14)
Electronic Instruments	497	(28)
Electro-acoustic instruments	498	(4)
Early electronic instruments	502	(1)
Electronic organs and synthesizers	503	(18)
Loudspeakers	521	(4)
The Musical Environment	525	(24)
Behaviour at surfaces	526	(6)
Reverberation time	532	(6)
Direct and reverberant sound	538	(2)
Room modes	540	(2)
Remedial measures	542	(3)
Laboratory environments	545	(4)
References	549	(26)
Suggestions for further reading	575	(4)
Index	579