Introduction to the Physics and Psychophysics of Music:
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Main Author: Roederer, Juan G. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer US 1975
Edition:Second Edition
Series:Heidelberg Science Library
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Online Access:Volltext
Item Description:viii book we shall refer a great deal to the discipline of psycho­ physics, which in a broad sense tries to establish in a quan­ titative form the causal relationship between the "physical" input from our senses and the psychological sensations and physiological reactions evoked in our mind and body, re­ spectively. Actually, we shall try to weave a rather close mesh between physics and psychophysics-or, more pre­ cisely, psychoacoustics. After all, they appear naturally interwoven in music itself: not only pitch, loudness and timbre are a product of physical and psychoacoustical proc­ esses, but so are the sensations related to consonance and dissonance, tonic dominance, trills and ornamentation, vibrato, phrasing, beats, tone attack, duration and decay, rhythm, and so on. Many books on physics of music or musical acoustics are readily available. An up-to-date text is the treatise of John Backus (1969). No book on psychoacoustics is available at the elementary level, though. Several review articles on pertinent topics can be found in Tobias (1970) and in Plomp and Smoorenburg (1970). A comprehensive discussion is given in Flanagan's book on speech (1972). And, of course, there is the classical treatise of von Bekesy (1960). A com­ prehensive up-to-date analysis of general brain processes can be found in Sommerhoff (1974); musical psychology is discussed in classical terms in Lundin (1967)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:9781461599814
9781461599838
ISSN:0073-1595
DOI:10.1007/978-1-4615-9981-4

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