What is music?
By: InCA ; BBC ; presented by Films for the Humanities and Sciences ; producer/director, Brian Johnson
Contributors: Independent Communications Associates; British Broadcasting Corporation; Royal Institution of Great Britain; Films for the Humanities (Firm)
Series: Science and music; Exploring music -- 1; Royal Institution Christmas lectures
Publisher: Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 60
Subjects: Music; Acoustics and physics; Sound-waves; Musical perception
Description: "This program examines sound-waves: why some sounds are musical and others just noise, and the relationship of regularity or irregularity of vibration to the perception of musicality, as well as such non-scientific questions as the cultural content of musical perception."--Container.
Notes: Videodisc release of the Royal Institution 1989 Christmas Lectures.

Executive producer, William Wollard ; associate producer, Richard Thomson ; camera supervisor, Barry Chaston ; production manager, Gabi Kabza.

Charles Taylor.

DVD.