Research Catalog

Title

Introduction to the physics and psychophysics of music / Juan G. Roederer.

Author

Roederer, Juan G., 1929-

Publication

New York : Springer-Verlag, 1979.

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Details

Description

xii, 202 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Heidelberg science library ; v. 16

Uniform Title

Heidelberg science library ; v. 16.

Subject

• Music > Acoustics and physics

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. [189]-194.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• 1. Music, physics, and psychophysics: an interdisciplinary approach : 1.1. The intervening physical system ; 1.2. Characteristic attributes of musical sounds ; 1.3. The time element in music ; 1.4. Physics and psychophysics ; 1.5. What is music?
• 2. Sound vibrations, pure tones, and the perception of pitch : 2.1. Motion and vibration ; 2.2. Simple harmonic motion ; 2.3. Acoustical vibrations and pure tone sensations ; 2.4. Superposition of pure tones: first-order beats and the critical band ; 2.5. Other first-order effects: combination tones and aural harmonics ; 2.6. Second order effects: beats of mistuned consonances ; 2.7. Fundamental tracking ; 2.8. Auditory coding in the peripheral nervous system ; 2.9. Periodicity pitch and the role of the central nervous system
• 3. Sound waves, acoustical energy, and the perception of loudness : 3.1. Elastic waves, force, energy, and power ; 3.2. Propagation speed, wavelength, and acoustical power ; 3.3 Superposition of waves; standing waves ; 3.4. Intensity, sound intensity level, and loudness ; 3.5. The loudness perception mechanism and related processes
• 4. Generation of musical sounds, complex tones, and the perception of tone quality : 4.1. Standing waves in a string ; 4.2. Generation of complex standing vibrations in string instruments ; 4.3. Sound vibration spectra and resonance ; 4.4 Standing longitudinal waves in an idealized air column ; 4.5. Generation of complex standing vibrations in wind instruments ; 4.6. Sound spectra of wind instrument tones ; 4.7. Trapping and absorption of sound waves in a closed environment ; 4.8. Perception of pitch and timbre of musical tones ; 4.9. Identification of musical sounds
• 5. Superposition and successions of complex tones and the perception of music : 5.1. Superposition of complex tones ; 5.2. The sensation of musical consonance and dissonance ; 5.3. Building musical scales ; 5.4. The standard scale and the standard of pitch ; 5.5. Why are there musical scales and why do we experience musical sensations? ; 5.6. Specialization of speech and music processing in the cerebral.

ISBN

• 0387901167
• 3540901167

LCCN

^^^75002313^/MN

OCLC

6150424

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library