Measured Tones The Interplay of Physics and Music

Name: Measured Tones The Interplay of Physics and Music
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ISBN: 9780750307628

ISBN-10: 0750307625

ISBN-13: 9780750307628

Edition: 2nd 2002 (Revised)

Authors: Ian Johnston, Institute of Physics Staff

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From the very earliest experiments on vibrating strings and primitive sound makers to the latest concerns of digital sound recording, MP3 files, and information theory, this book explores the relationship between physics and music in an entertaining, user-friendly way. It provides an easy-to-understand introduction to the physics involved in every stage of the music making process. The book also narrates the story of our developing concept of the universe we live in: from the ancient visions of a cosmos regulated by the music of the spheres to our current understanding of an expanding universe controlled by the laws of quantum mechanics and string theory.

Book details

List price: $59.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: CRC Press LLC
Publication date: 3/1/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 420
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Ian Johnston is currently an independent scholar pursuing a lifelong passion for ancient languages.



List of tables


Prologue



Why these and not others?


Length of strings


Harmonious intervals


Pythagoras


Pentatonic and Pythagorean scales


Ptolemy


Boethius



Music and scientific method


Medieval music


Josquin


Copernicus


Kepler


Galileo


Vibrations


Pendulums and strings


Consonance


Measurement of frequency


Standards of pitch



Brass instruments



The harmonies of a mechanical universe


Mechanical forces


Energy


Oscillation theory


Mersenne's Laws


Baroque music


Instruments


Equal temperament



The piano



Overtones of enlightenment


Newton and the Age of Reason


Visualization of oscillations


Overtones


Harmonic analysis and synthesis


Rameau and harmony


End of the Englightenment



The violin



Over the waves


Wave theory


Speed of sound


Wave properties: reflection, absorption, diffraction


Huygens and Young


Standing waves



Acoustics in architecture



The romance of electricity


The Romantic movement


Study of electricity, Faraday


Acoustics


Energy coupling and acoustic impedance


Mismatch theorem


Standing waves in air columns



Woodwind instruments



Summertime in Heidelberg


Wagner and Helmholtz


Theory of resonance


Working of the ear


Pitch recognition and discrimination


Psycho-acoustics


Theory of consonance



Percussion instruments



O brave new world


Communication devices: microphones, gramophones, values, transistors


Effect on music


Modern sound engineering: frequency response, transients


Technology



Electronic instruments



I think, therefore I am


Theory of communication


Information


Computers


Computer composition



Sublimest of instruments, the voice


Epilogue



Musical notation



Logarithms



Measurement of pitch intervals



Measurement of loudness



Acoustic impedance



Pentatonic scales


Bibliography


Accompanying web site


Index