Helmholtz
Helmholtz

Author: Michel Meulders

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 0262014483

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The first biography in English of a nineteenth-century German scientist whose experimental approach influences today's neuroscience.

Music: A Mathematical Offering
Music: A Mathematical Offering

Author: Dave Benson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13: 0521853877

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This book explores the interaction between music and mathematics including harmony, symmetry, digital music and perception of sound.

The Theory of Musical Communication
The Theory of Musical Communication

Author: Alexander N. Yakoupov

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2016-08-17

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 1443899062

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This book provides an overview of the communicative processes that encompass the creation, interpretation, perception, and evaluation of the various phenomena constituting musical art. The numerous internal and external communicative links in the spheres of the composer, the performer, the listener and the musicologist-critic – links which constitute a complex system of the transmission of musical information – are considered from a socio-cultural perspective, which determines the high social role of the academic genres of music. The book will be of use to professional musicians and to all those interested in the acute problems of musicology, musical aesthetics, the sociology of music, and musical pedagogics.

Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval. Genesis of Meaning in Sound and Music
Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval. Genesis of Meaning in Sound and Music

Author: Sølvi Ystad

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2009-07

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 364202517X

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval, CMMR 2008 - Genesis of Meaning in Sound and Music, held in Copenhagen, Denmark, in May 2008. The 21 revised full papers presented were specially reviewed and corrected for this proceedings volume. CMMR 2008 seeks to enlarge upon the Sense of Sounds-concept by taking into account the musical structure as a whole. More precisely, the workshop will have as its theme Genesis of Meaning in Sound and Music. The purpose is hereby to establish rigorous research alliances between computer and engineering sciences (information retrieval, programming, acoustics, signal processing) and areas within the humanities (in particular perception, cognition, musicology, philosophy), as well as to globally address the notion of sound meaning and its implications in music, modeling and retrieval.

The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory
The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory

Author: Thomas Christensen

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2006-04-20

Total Pages: 1033

ISBN-13: 1316025489

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The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory is the first comprehensive history of Western music theory to be published in the English language. A collaborative project by leading music theorists and historians, the volume traces the rich panorama of music-theoretical thought from the Ancient Greeks to the present day. Recognizing the variety and complexity of music theory as an historical subject, the volume has been organized within a flexible framework. Some chapters are defined chronologically within a restricted historical domain, whilst others are defined conceptually and span longer historical periods. Together the thirty-one chapters present a synthetic overview of the fascinating and complex subject that is historical music theory. Richly enhanced with illustrations, graphics, examples and cross-citations as well as being thoroughly indexed and supplemented by comprehensive bibliographies of the most important primary and secondary literature, this book will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars alike.

The Effects of Sound on People
The Effects of Sound on People

Author: James P. Cowan

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2016-05-16

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 1118895703

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Provides a summary of current research results on the physiological and psychological effects of sound on people Covers how the operation of the hearing mechanism affects our reactions to sounds Includes research results from studies on noise sources of public concern such as transportation, public utility, and recreational sources, with emphasis on low frequency sound and infrasound Covers sounds that affect some but not others, how sounds can be controlled on a practical level, and how and what sounds are regulated Includes coverage of both positive and negative effects of sound