Studies in Musical Acoustics and Psychoacoustics

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

   PDF

2. Japanese Flutes and Their Musical Acoustic Peculiarities

   • Shigeru Yoshikawa

   Pages 1-47

3. Acoustics of the Qin

   • Chris Waltham, Kimi Coaldrake, Evert Koster, Yang Lan

   Pages 49-74

4. Tone Production of the Wurlitzer and Rhodes E-Pianos

   • Florian Pfeifle, Malte Münster

   Pages 75-107

5. Feedback of Different Room Geometries on the Sound Generation and Sound Radiation of an Organ Pipe

   • Jost Leonhardt Fischer

   Pages 109-142

6. Acoustical Modeling of Mutes for Brass Instruments

   • Shigeru Yoshikawa, Yu Nobara

   Pages 143-186

7. Experimental Approaches to the Study of Damping in Musical Instruments

   • Malte Kob

   Pages 187-200

8. Comparison of Vocal and Violin Vibrato with Relationship to the Source/Filter Model

   • James W. Beauchamp

   Pages 201-221

9. Vowel Quality in Violin Sounds—A Timbre Analysis of Italian Masterpieces

   • Robert Mores

   Pages 223-245

10. Sound, Pitches and Tuning of a Historic Carillon

    • Albrecht Schneider, Marc Leman

    Pages 247-298

11. Source Width in Music Production. Methods in Stereo, Ambisonics, and Wave Field Synthesis

    • Tim Ziemer

    Pages 299-340

12. Methods in Neuromusicology: Principles, Trends, Examples and the Pros and Cons

    • Christiane Neuhaus

    Pages 341-374

13. An Intelligent Music System to Perform Different “Shapes of Jazz—To Come”

    • Jonas Braasch, Selmer Bringsjord, Nikhil Deshpande, Pauline Oliveros, Doug Van Nort

    Pages 375-403

14. Explorations in Keyboard Temperaments. Some Empirical Observations

    • Albrecht Schneider, Andreas Beurmann

    Pages 405-444

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. 

• Turbulence Simulations
• Musical Instruments
• Synchronization Phenomena
• Musical Applications of Finite Element Models
• Sound
• Impulse-response Recording

• Institut für Systematische Musikwissenschaft, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

  Albrecht Schneider