Acoustical Foundations of Music

Chapter Content

Introduction

What is Sound?

How Environment Affects Sound

Tuning Systems

Acoustics of the Voice and Musical Instruments

Room Acoustics

Introduction

MM5 Physical Acoustics (Sebald)

Russell animations

Wolfe Waves and Sounds

Music Acoustics

What is Sound?

Speed of Sound

Decibel Scale

Phons

Equal Loudness

Waveform

Strings

Cylindrical Winds

Conical Winds

Timpani Vibrations

Cymatics

Tempo/frequency

How Environment Affects Sound

Compressions/rarefactions

Interference

Tuning Systems

Consonance

Meantone and Equal Temperament

Music from Thailand

Music from Arabia

Music from India

Music from Ghana

Music from Uganda

Music from Norway

Acoustics of the Voice and Musical Instruments

Acoustics of the Voice

Acoustics of Single reeds: Clarinet

Acoustics of Saxophone

Cymatics

Ted Talk on Cymatics

Room Acoustics

Room Acoustics

Acoustics in the most expensive concert hall

How to get perfect sound