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Measured tones : the interplay of physics and music /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
CRC Press,
2009.
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| Edición: | 3rd ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables; Prologue; Acknowledgments; About the author; Chapter 1: Why these and not others?; Chapter 2: Music and scientific method; Interlude 1: Brass instruments; Chapter 3: Harmonies of a mechanical universe; Interlude 2: The piano; Chapter 4: Overtones of enlightenment; Interlude 3: The violin; Chapter 5: Over the waves; Interlude 4: Acoustics in architecture; Chapter 6: The romance of electricity; Interlude 5: Woodwind instruments; Chapter 7: Summertime in Heidelberg; Interlude 6: Percussion instruments; Chapter 8: O brave new world.; Interlude 7: Electronic instrumentsChapter 9: I think, therefore I am; Interlude 8: Sublimest of instruments, the voice; Epilogue; Appendix 1: Musical notation; Appendix 2: Logarithms; Appendix 3: Binary numbers; Appendix 4: Measurement of pitch intervals; Appendix 5: Measurement of loudness; Appendix 6: Acoustic impedance; Appendix 7: Pentatonic scales; Bibliography.