Measured Tones: The Interplay of Physics and Music, Third Edition

by Johnston; Ian

• ISBN13: 9781420093476
• ISBN10: 1420093479
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-06-01
• Publisher: CRC Press

Summary

Building on the success of its predecessors, this third edition of is substantially updated to include modern technology and recent advances. The text features a greater examination of psycho-acoustics and its role in the design of MP3s. Additional coverage includes expanded information on the gamelan and other Asian percussion instruments. The author also introduces detailed discussions of binary arithmetic, general digitization trends, and electronic manipulation of music. An accompanying website provides sound files and further reading to supplement the problems that are presented in the book.

Table of Contents

List of tables
Prologue
Acknowledgments
About the author
Why these and not others?	p. 1
Length of strings
Harmonious intervals
Pythagoras
Pentatonic and Pythagorean scales
Ptolemy
Boethius
Music and scientific method	p. 17
Medieval music
Josquin
Copernicus
Kepler
Galileo
Vibrations
Pendulums and strings
Consonance
Measurement of frequency
Standards of pitch
Brass instruments	p. 37
Harmonies of a mechanical universe	p. 57
Mechanical forces
Energy
Oscillation theory
Mersenne's Laws
Baroque music
Instruments
Equal temperament
The piano	p. 75
Overtones of enlightenment	p. 87
Newton and the Age of Reason
Visualization of oscillations
Overtones
Harmonic analysis and synthesis
Rameau and harmony
End of the Enlightenment
The violin	p. 111
Over the waves	p. 133
Wave theory
Speed of sound
Wave properties: reflection, absorption, diffraction
Huygens and Young
Standing waves
Acoustics in architecture	p. 155
The romance of electricity	p. 175
The Romantic movement
Study of electricity, Faraday
Acoustics
Energy coupling and acoustic impedance
Mismatch theorem
Standing waves in air columns
Woodwind instruments	p. 199
Summertime in Heidelberg	p. 225
Wagner and Helmholtz
Theory of resonance
Working of the ear
Pitch recognition and discrimination
Psycho-acoustics
Theory of consonance
Percussion instruments	p. 255
O Brave new world	p. 275
Communication devices: microphones, gramphones, valves, transistors
Effect on music
Modern sound engineering: frequency response, transients
Technology
Electronic instruments	p. 303
I think, therefore I am	p. 323
Theory of communication
Information
Computers
Computer composition
Sublimest of instruments, the voice	p. 341
Epilogue	p. 363
Musical notation	p. 365
Logarithims	p. 371
Binary numbers	p. 375
Measurement of pitch intervals	p. 379
Measurement of loudness	p. 383
Acoustic impedance	p. 387
Pentatonic scales	p. 393
Bibliography	p. 399
Index	p. 405
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