Acoustics and Psychoacoustics: Edited by Francis Rumsey (Music Technology Series) - Softcover

Howard, David; Angus, Jamie

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9780240514284: Acoustics and Psychoacoustics: Edited by Francis Rumsey (Music Technology Series)

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ISBN 10: 0240514289 ISBN 13: 9780240514284

Publisher: Focal Press, 1996

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'this book is a good choice for music students - and ear surgeons. Its approach is more theoretical than practical, but for anyone studying acoustics for the first time the explanations are about as easy as they come and the coverage wide too.'
HI-FI WORLD
' Practical overview of computer based and stand alone digital audio
systems '
' Comprehensive introduction to acoustics and psychoacoustics'
SOUND ON SOUND

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Acoustics and Psychoacoustics is ideal for students of music technology, sound recording, traditional music and acoustics, as well as engineers studying audio, multimedia and communications systems. Anyone who wants a practical understanding of how real musical sounds behave and are perceived in real spaces, will find this an accessible and interesting read.Subjects featured include:
Principles of sound
Human hearing and psychoacoustics
Musical timbre, pitch and loudness perception
Sound generation in musical instruments
Sound in different environments (architectural acoustics)
Processing sound electronically
The book's second edition provides new material on wave motion, brass and woodwind instruments, forward and backward masking, an introduction to coding, and diffusion. Additional references and marginal notes explaining basic terms are provided to aid understanding.

Professor David M Howard lectures on music technology at the University of York's Electronics Department. His research interests include the analysis and synthesis of music, speech and singing, human hearing modelling and the use of computer displays in voice teaching. He is an active organist, choral singer and choral conductor. Dr James Angus was an instigator of the music technology courses at York, where he formerly lectured. He is now an independent consultant and researches in the area of acoustics, in particular diffuser design and audio signal processing. Acoustics and Psychoacoustics is part of the Focal Press Music Technology Series.

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