The Physics and Psychophysics of Music An Introduction /

• Main Author: Roederer, Juan G. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer US, 2009.
• Subjects: Physics.; Neurobiology.; Acoustics.; Music.; Biophysics and Biological Physics.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09474-8

This book, a classic in its field, deals with the physical systems and physiological processes that intervene in music. It analyzes what objective, physical properties of sound are associated with what subjective psychological sensations of music, and it describes how these sound patterns are actual...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• The Science of Music and the Music of Science: A Multidisciplinary Overview
• Sound Vibrations, Pure Tones, and the Perception of Pitch
• Sound Waves , Acoustic Energy, and the Perception of Loudness
• Generation of Musical Sounds, Complex Tones, and the Perception of Timbre
• Superposition and Succession of Complex Tones, and the Integral Perception of Music
• Appendix 1: Some Quantitative Aspects of the Bowing Mechanism
• Appendix II: Some Quantitative Aspects of Central Pitch Processor Models
• Appendix III: Some Renarks on Teaching of Physics and Psychophysics of Music
• References
• Index.