xii, 444 pages : illustrations (some color); 25 cm.
Summary
"This book comprises twelve articles which cover a range of topics from musical instrument acoustics to issues in psychoacoustics and sound perception as well as neuromusicology. In addition to experimental methods and data acquisition, modeling (such as FEM or wave field synthesis) and numerical simulation plays a central role in studies addressing sound production in musical instruments as well as interaction of radiated sound with the environment. Some of the studies have a focus on psychoacoustic aspects in regard to virtual pitch and timbre as well as apparent source width (for techniques such as stereo or ambisonics) in music production. Since musical acoustics imply subjects playing instruments or singing in order to produce sound according to musical structures, this area is also covered including a study that presents an artificial intelligent agent capable to interact with a real ('analog') player in musical genres such as traditional and free jazz."--Page [4] of cover.
Series Statement
Current research in systematic musicology, 2196-6966 ; volume 4
Japanese flutes and their musical acoustic peculiarities / Shigeru Yoshikawa -- Acoustics of the Qin / Chris Waltham, Kimi Coaldrake, Evert Koster and Yang Lan -- Tone production of the wurlitzer and Rhodes e-pianos / Florian Pfeifle and Malte Münster -- Feedback of different room geometries on the sound generation and sound radiation of an organ pipe / Jost Leonhardt Fischer -- Acoustical modeling of mutes for brass instruments / Shigeru Yoshikawa and Yu Nobara -- Experimental approaches to the study of damping in musical instruments / Matle Kob -- Comparison of vocal and violin vibrato with relationship to the source/filter model James W. Beauchamp -- Vowel quality in violin sounds - a timbre analysis of Italian masterpieces / Robert Mores -- Sound, pitches and tuning of a historic carillon / Albrecht Schneider and Marc Leman -- Source width in music production : methods in stereo, ambisonics, and wave field synthesis / Tim Ziemer -- Methods in neuromusicology : principles, trends, examples and the pros and cons / Christiane Neuhaus -- An intelligent music system to perform different "shapes of jazz - to come" / Jonas Braasch, Selmer Bringsjord, Nikhil Deshpande, Pauline Oliveros and Doug Van Nort -- Explorations in keyboard temperatments : some empirical observations / Albrecht Schneider and Andreas Beurmann.