Musical
Acoustics
音樂聲學
Instructor：Chen-gia Tsai
Semester：Spring 2008
Credit：2
Schedule
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Week |
Content |
Readings |
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1 |
Introduction / Acousticians and Music |
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2 |
Wave and Vibration / Sources of Sound |
(A) |
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3 |
Sound Propagation and Intensity / Elemental Ingredients of Music |
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4 |
Sound Spectra / Frequency Domain / Overtone Singing |
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5 |
Organology / Classification of Instruments |
(B) |
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6 |
Percussion Instruments and Natural Modes |
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7 |
Piano and Plucked Strings / Tuning System |
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8 |
Midterm exam / Theremin |
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9 |
Self-sustained Oscillation / The Bowed String |
(C) |
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10 |
Blown Pipes and Flutes / Helmholtz Resonator |
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11 |
The Chinese Membrane Flute / Timbre Space |
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12 |
Blown Reed Instruments / Impedance |
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13 |
The Human Voice |
(D) |
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14 |
Auditory System / Pitch Model |
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15 |
Auditory Scene Analysis / Room Acoustics |
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16 |
Students’ presentation |
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17 |
Students’ presentation |
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18 |
Final exam |
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Readings
(A) Zhuang, Yuan.
Colloquium on acoustics of Chinese modern and contemporary. Musicology in China 2005.2:113-121.
(B) Liu, Sha. On The
Research object and task of the instrumental-course. Journal of Wuhan Conservatory of Music 2002;4:86-91.
Lu, Yu-Hsiu. Approch to Musical
Praxis in Musical Instrument Museums. 2005;19(4):123-131.
(C) Fletcher, N.H.
The nonlinear physics of musical instruments. Rep. Prog. Phys.
1999;62:723-764.
(D) Tsai, Chen-Gia.
Chaotic behavior of performers' vocalizations: an interdisciplinary study of
growl voices. Taipei Theatre Journal
2005;2:39-62.
Extended Readings
Hall,
D.E. Musical Acoustics (3rd edition). California: Brooks-Cole Publishing
Co., 2002.
Fletcher, N.H., and Rossing,
T.D. The Physics of Musical Instruments. Springer-Verlag, 1991.
Crocker, M.J. Handbook of
Acoustics. Wiley-Interscience, 1998.
Hirschberg,
A., Kergomard, J., and Weinreich, G. (ed.). Mechanics of Musical Instruments. Springer-Verlag, 1995.
Rossing, T.D. Science of
Percussion Instruments. World Scientific Publishing, 2000.
Benade, A.H. Fundamentals
of Musical Acoustics. London: Oxford University Press, 1976.
Meyer, J. Acoustics and the
Performance of Music. Verlag Das Musikinstrumenter. Frankfurt/Main, 1978.
Campbell, M., and Greated, C. The
Musician’s Guide to Acoustics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Sundberg, J. The Science of
the Singing Voice. Northern Illinois University Press, 1987.
Joliveau E, Smith J, Wolfe J. Tuning of vocal
tract resonances by sopranos. Nature 2004;427:116.
Tarnopolsky A, Fletcher N, Hollenberg L, Lange B,
Smith J, Wolfe J. The vocal tract and the sound of a didgeridoo. Nature 2005;436:39.
Hikichi T, Osaka N, Itakura F. Time-domain
simulation of sound production of the sho. J. Acoust. Soc. Am.
2003;113:1092-1101.
Penttinen H, Pakarinen J, Välimäki V, Laurson M,
Li H , Leman M. Model-based sound synthesis of the guqin. J. Acoust. Soc.
Am. 2006;120:4052-4063.