Spectral Analysis of Musical Sounds with Emphasis on the Piano
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 13 November 2014
- ISBN 9780198722908
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages400 pages
- Size 249x181x23 mm
- Weight 910 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 357 b/w illustrations 0
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Short description:
In this book the tools of spectral analysis are applied via graphics to musical sounds, especially those coming from a piano, with emphasis on the visualization of musical sounds rather than the mathematics behind it. The aim is to give a different and insightful view of musical instruments.
MoreLong description:
This book addresses the analysis of musical sounds from the viewpoint of someone at the intersection between physicists, engineers, piano technicians, and musicians.
The study is structured into three parts. The reader is introduced to a variety of waves and a variety of ways of presenting, visualizing, and analyzing them in the first part. A tutorial on the tools used throughout the book accompanies this introduction. The mathematics behind the tools is left to the appendices. Part Two provides a graphical survey of the classical areas of acoustics that pertain to musical instruments: vibrating strings, bars, membranes, and plates. Part Three is devoted almost exclusively to the piano. Several two- and three-dimensional graphical tools are introduced to study various characteristics of pianos: individual notes and interactions among them, the missing fundamental, inharmonicity, tuning visualization, the different distribution of harmonic power for the various zones of the piano keyboard, and potential uses for quality control. These techniques are also briefly applied to other musical instruments studied in earlier parts of the book.
For physicists and engineers there are appendices to cover the mathematics lurking beneath the numerous graphs and a brief introduction to Matlab® which was used to generate these graphs. A website accompanying the book (https://sites.google.com/site/analysisofsoundsandvibrations/) contains:
- Matlab® scripts
- mp3 files of sounds
- references to YouTube videos
- and up-to-date results of recent studies
I recommend this remarkable book to everyone who wants to know how sounds are generated and how they can be analyzed. I am sure that this book will serve as a standard reference for the spectral analysis of musical sounds over many years
Table of Contents:
Part 1: Some Basic Sound Waves and Some Simple Tools
An Introduction to Some Elementary Waves
The Basic Tools of Spectral Analysis
Analysis of Several Common Musical Instruments
Harmonics in Musical Sounds
Part 2: A Visual Analysis of Vibrating Objects (Strings, Membranes, Bars, Plates)
The Vibrating String
The Vibrating Bar
The Vibrating Membrane
The Vibrating Plate
Part 3: The Piano
An Introduction to Pianos
Some Individual Piano Notes and Interactions Between Them
The Missing Fundamental
Octave Stretching, Inharmonicity and Railsback Curves
Beating, Unisons and Tuning
Two Dimensional Graphical Metrics
Three Dimensional Graphical Metrics
An Investigation into Hammer Knock and Key Striking
Evaluation of a Wapin Bridge Conversion
Similarities between Pianos and Repeatability of Data Gathering Methods
Two Metrics Applied to Other Instruments
Use of the Metrics in Production and Development
Comments by Delwin Fandrich
Appendix 1. Mathematical Basis for Part One
Appendix 2. Mathematical Basis for Part Two
Appendix 3. Mathematical Basis for Part Three
Appendix 4. Experimental Setup
Appendix 5. A Brief Exposure to Matlab
