Acoustics and Psychoacoustics (Music Technology) (Paperback)

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"Reviews of the previous edition: 'This book is a good choice for music students - and ear surgeons. For anyone studying acoustics for the first time the explanations are about as easy as they come and the coverage wide too.' Hi-Fi World

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This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the subject of acoustics, including the principles of human perception of sound, sometimes called psychoacoustics. Acoustics and Psychoacoustics is ideal for students of music technology, sound recording, traditional music and acoustics, as well as engineers studying audio, multimedia and communications systems. Anyone who wants a practical understanding of how real musical sounds behave and are perceived in real spaces, will find this an accessible and interesting read. Subjects featured include: Principles of sound Human hearing and psychoacoustics Musical timbre, pitch and loudness perception Sound generation in musical instruments Sound in different environments (architectural acoustics) Processing sound electronically The book's second edition provides new material on wave motion, brass and woodwind instruments, forward and backward masking, an introduction to coding, and diffusion. Additional references and marginal notes explaining basic terms are provided to aid understanding. Supporting website: http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~dmh8/AcPsych/acpsyc.htm Visit the book's supporting website, designed by author David Howard, for additional resources: Questions and exercises to test your knowledge Web links for further resources and research Audio clips Calculation facilities (eg. adding decibel values and converting between frequency ratio and cents/semitones) The website can also be reached via www focalpress.com Professor David M Howard lectures on music technology at the University of York's Electronics Department. His research interests include the analysis and synthesis of music, speech and singing, human hearing modelling and the use of computer displays in voice teaching. He is an active organist, choral singer and choral conductor. Dr James Angus was an instigator of the music technology courses at York, where he formerly lectured. He is now an independent consultant and researches in the area of acoustics, in particular diffuser design and audio signal processing. Acoustics and Psychoacoustics is part of the Focal Press Music Technology Series.

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews   7 of 23 people found the following review helpful: 3.0 out of 5 stars A god complementary book but focus to much on the mathematic, 15 Dec 2000 By  "alex_gitt" - See all my reviews This review is from: Acoustics and Psychoacoustics (Music Technology) (Paperback) In the intoduction can you read that the books is writts in order to fill the void of the mathematicall side of the acoustics. A lot of books that I have reed in this subject does not talk much about the maths involved, so the atuhors is absolutely rigth. But the atuhors also written that this book ligths the properties of sound that does not invalves mathematics. Unforteally this book focus to much on maths and forgetts to explain thing in words without the help of numbers. But if you are a determend student or simular this book is necessary to understand the areas where a deep understanding of maths is required. Particular when it commes to understand the speed of sound in different kinds of materiall, the book has a great explenation of Young's modulus and showes with a formula how the differencies in temperature applies on the speed of the sound wave in air. This book explains much better the properties of sound than for example Master Handbook of Acoustics by F. Alton Everest. But I miss a satesfactory disscusion about scales and temperaments and the darw backs of the equal tempered scale. But still I have to say as a student in this area that I strongely recommend this book as a complement to J,Backus the acoustical foundation of music. Comment Comment (1) | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this) Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review › See all customer reviews...		Ad feedback   Search Customer Reviews Only search this product's reviews

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