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Sound : a very short introduction / Mike Goldsmith.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Very short introductions ; 451.Publication details: Graet Birtain: Oxford University Press c2015Edition: 1st edDescription: xvi, 140 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 18 cmISBN:
  • 9780198708445
  • 0198708440
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 534 23 GOL-S 2015 475276
Online resources: Summary: Sound is integral to how we experience the world, in the form of noise as well as music. But what is sound? What is the physical basis of pitch and harmony? And how are sound waves exploited in musical instruments? In this book Mike Goldsmith looks at the science of sound and explores sound in different contexts, covering the audible and inaudible, sound underground and underwater, acoustic and electric, and hearing in humans and animals. He also considers the problem of sound out of place - noise and its reduction.--
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-130) and index.

Sound is integral to how we experience the world, in the form of noise as well as music. But what is sound? What is the physical basis of pitch and harmony? And how are sound waves exploited in musical instruments? In this book Mike Goldsmith looks at the science of sound and explores sound in different contexts, covering the audible and inaudible, sound underground and underwater, acoustic and electric, and hearing in humans and animals. He also considers the problem of sound out of place - noise and its reduction.--

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