Overview
- A concise musical acoustics book intended for undergraduates with a basic understanding of math and science
- Discusses both the physics of sound, and the psychology and physiology of how humans perceive sound and music
- Includes chapters on the tonal characteristics and physics of musical instruments
- Includes end of chapter exercises and solutions
- Appendices provide useful supplementary information on diverse topics such as standard piano tuning, the greek alphabet, notable composers, and trigonometric functions
- Written by the author of the classic text "Signals, Sound, and Sensation"
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics (ULNP)
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Table of contents (27 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
The mathematical level of this book assumes that the reader is familiar with elementary algebra. Trigonometric functions, logarithms and powers also appear in the book, but computational techniques are included as these concepts are introduced, and there is further technical help in appendices.
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“Principles of Musical Acoustics is a welcome addition to the existing selection of undergraduate texts. … the writing is clear and lively, and it would be accessible to its target audience. Coupled with a laboratory component and ample demonstrations and computer visualizations, it could form the basis for a stimulating semester course.” (John Smedley, Physics Today, September, 2014)Authors and Affiliations
About the author
In 1981-82 Dr. Hartmann took a leave of absence to work as a visiting scientist at the Institute for Research on Acoustics and Music (IRCAM) in Paris. He subsequently served at IRCAM as acting director of acoustics (1982-1983) and, supported by a NSF-CNRS grant, as consultant (1983-1987).
Dr. Hartmann has been a fellow of the Acoustical Society of America since 1983. He was chairman of the Technical Committee on Musical Acoustics from 1980 to 1984. From 1992-1995 he served on the Society's Executive Council and was chairman of the External Affairs Administrative Council (1994-1995). He gave the Society Tutorial at the spring meeting in 1996 entitled, "Pitch, Periodicity and the Brain." He served as vice president of the Society (1998-1999) and as president (2001-2002). As president, he worked to enhance the Society's connections with allied organizations such as the Institute for Noise Control Engineering, and to expand the Society's presence internationally.
In 2001 Dr. Hartmann received the Distinguished Faculty Award from Michigan State University and the Helmholtz-Rayleigh Silver Medal from the Acoustical Society of America. He currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of Springer's Modern Acoustics and Signal Processing Series.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Principles of Musical Acoustics
Authors: William M. Hartmann
Series Title: Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6786-1
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-6785-4Published: 26 July 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-6786-1Published: 26 July 2013
Series ISSN: 2192-4791
Series E-ISSN: 2192-4805
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 348
Number of Illustrations: 180 b/w illustrations
Topics: Acoustics, Neurobiology, Engineering Acoustics