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The creation and transmission of musical sounds. Sources of musical sounds ; Transmission of sound -- Hearing musical sounds. The outer ear ; The middle ear ; The inner ear ; Distortion in the ear -- Anatomy of a musical note. Pitch ; Loudness ; Timbre -- Playing in tune. Consonance and dissonance ; Origin of scales ; Just diatonic scale ; Tempered scales -- Sound production in musical instruments. Classification of musical instruments ; Resonance ; Impedance and coupling ; Waves on a string ; Waves in tubes -- Bowed and plucked stringed instruments. The violin ; Other members of the violin family ; The viols ; The lute ; The guitar ; Other members of the guitar family ; The harp -- Stringed keyboard instruments. Clavichord ; Harpsichord family ; The piano ; Tuning keyboard instruments -- Woodwind instruments. Reed woodwinds ; Shawms and crumhorns ; The clarinet ; The saxophone ; The oboe ; The bassoon ; Bagpipes ; The flute ; Fipple flutes -- Brass instruments. The lip reed ; The shapes of brass instruments ; Crooks, slides and valves ; Instruments with predominantly conical bore ; Instruments with predominantly cylindrical bore ; Instruments with hybrid bore ; Muting and hand-stopping on brass instruments ; The effects of bell material, treatment, thickness and finish -- Percussion instruments. Drums ; Tuned idiophones ; Triangle, cymbal and gong -- Organs. Pipe organs ; Reed organs -- The human voice. The voice organ ; The vocal sound source ; Vocal tract resonances ; Special techniques of trained singers -- Electronic instruments. Electro-acoustic instruments ; Early electronic instruments ; Electronic organs and synthesizers ; Loudspeakers -- The musical environment. Behaviour at surfaces ; Reverberation time ; Direct and reverberant sound ; Room modes ; Remedial measures ; Laboratory environments. |
