Title: Measured tones :
Authors: Johnstone, Ian H.,
Date: 2002
Publisher: Institue of Physics Publishing,
Physical description: xiv, 406 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language: English
LC classification: M
Contents: 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 Enlightenment -- 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.
Subject headings (LCSH): Music--Acoustics and physics.