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| The Nature of Sound | |
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| Acoustics and Music | |
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| Kinds of acoustics | |
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| "... But is it music?" | |
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| Organizing Our Study of Sound | |
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| The Physical Nature of Sound | |
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| The value of wave analogies | |
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| The Speed of Sound | |
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| Pressure and Sound Amplitude | |
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| Waves and Vibrations | |
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| The Time Element in Sound | |
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| Waveforms | |
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| The ubiquitous oscilloscope | |
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| Functional Relations | |
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| Simple Harmonic Oscillation | |
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| Mass and weight | |
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| Work, Energy, and Resonance | |
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| Sources of Sound | |
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| Classifying Sound Sources | |
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| Percussion Instruments | |
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| String Instruments | |
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| Wind Instruments | |
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| Source Size | |
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| Transposing instruments | |
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| Sound from the Natural Environment | |
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| Sound Propagation | |
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| Reflection and Refraction | |
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| Diffraction | |
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| The wave nature of matter | |
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| Outdoor Music | |
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| The Doppler Effect | |
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| Interference and Beats | |
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| Sound Intensity and Its Measurement | |
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| Amplitude, Energy, and Intensity | |
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| Sound Level and the Decibel Scale | |
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| The sound level meter | |
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| Sound levels in music | |
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| The Inverse-Square Law | |
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| Environmental Noise | |
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| Combined Sound Levels and Interference | |
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| Combining amplitudes, intensities, and sound levels | |
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| The Human Ear and Its Response | |
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| The Mechanism of the Human Ear | |
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| Limits of Audibility and Discrimination | |
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| Hearing loss | |
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| Characteristics of Steady Single Tones | |
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| Loudness and Intensity | |
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| The psychophysical law | |
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| Pitch and Frequency | |
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| Pitch and Loudness Together | |
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| Timbre and Instrument Recognition | |
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| Elemental Ingredients Of Music | |
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| Organizing Musical Events in Time | |
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| Melody and Harmony | |
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| Scales and Intervals | |
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| The chromatic scale in equal temperament | |
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| The Harmonic Series | |
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| Sound Spectra and Electronic Synthesis | |
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| Prototype Steady Tones | |
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| Periodic Waves and Fourier Spectra | |
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| Modulated Tones | |
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| Electronic and Computer Music | |
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| Musical uses of computers | |
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| Percussion Instruments and Natural Modes | |
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| Searching for Simplicity | |
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| Coupled Pendulums | |
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| Natural Modes and Their Frequencies | |
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| Tuning Forks and Xylophone Bars | |
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| Drums, Cymbals, and Bells | |
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| Tympani | |
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| Striking Points and Vibration Recipes | |
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| Damped Vibrations | |
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| Piano and Guitar Strings | |
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| Natural Modes of a Thin String | |
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| Standing and traveling waves | |
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| Vibration Recipes for Plucked Strings | |
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| Vibration Recipes for the Piano | |
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| The piano action | |
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| Piano Scaling and Tuning | |
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| Impedance matching | |
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| The Bowed String | |
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| Violin Construction | |
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| Bowing and String Vibrations | |
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| Resonance | |
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| Energy flow and resonance | |
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| Sound Radiation from String Instruments | |
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| Blown Pipes and Flutes | |
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| Air Column Vibrations | |
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| Acoustic standing waves | |
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| Fluid Jets and Edgetones | |
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| Examples of flow instability | |
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| Organ Flue Pipes | |
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| Organ Registration and Design | |
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| Fingerholes and Recorders | |
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| The Transverse Flute | |
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| Blown Reed Instruments | |
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| Organ Reed Pipes | |
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| The Reed Woodwinds | |
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| The Brass Family | |
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| A chromatic scale for the trumpet | |
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| Playable Notes and Harmonic Spectra | |
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| The tacet horn | |
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| Radiation | |
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| The Human Voice | |
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| The Vocal Apparatus | |
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| Sound Production | |
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| The Bernoulli effect | |
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| Formants | |
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| Special Characteristics of the Singing Voice | |
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| Room Acoustics | |
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| General Criteria for Room Acoustics | |
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| Traveling and standing waves | |
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| Reverberation Time | |
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| Reverberation Calculation | |
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| Reverberant Sound Levels | |
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| Sound Reinforcement | |
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| Spatial Perception | |
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| Anechoic chambers and reverberation chambers | |
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| Sound Reproduction | |
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| Electric and Magnetic Concepts | |
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| Transducers | |
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| Microphones | |
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| Amplifiers | |
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| Recording | |
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| Equalization | |
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| Loudspeakers | |
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| Multiphonic Sound Reproduction | |
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| The Ear Revisited | |
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| Types of Pitch Judgment | |
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| Pitch Perception Mechanisms | |
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| Modern Pitch Perception Theory | |
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| Critical Bands | |
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| The uncertainty principle | |
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| Combination Tones | |
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| Loudness and Masking | |
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| Timbre | |
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| Harmonic Intervals and Tuning | |
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| Interval Perception | |
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| Intervals and the Harmonic Series | |
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| Musical Scales | |
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| The Impossibility of Perfect Tuning | |
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| Tuning and Temperament | |
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| Moods, keys, and transposition | |
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| Structure in Music | |
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| Melodies and Modes | |
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| Chords and Harmonic Progressions | |
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| Consonance and Dissonance | |
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| Musical Forms and Styles | |
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| Epilogue: Science and Esthetics | |
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| Written Music | |
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| The Metric System | |
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| Units for Physical Measurements | |
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| Scientific Notation and Computation | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Hints and Answers to Selected Exercises | |
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| Index | |
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| The Chromatic Scale; The Harmonic Series Slider | |