Physics of Music: Their Birth, Life, Death

By Carleen Maley Hutchins

Book Overview

Eight articles from Scientific American concerned with the orderly relation between the physical properties of musical instruments and the sounds coming from them. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0716700956
• ISBN13: 9780716700951
• Release Date: January 1978
• Publisher: W.H. Freeman & Company
• Length: 98 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Should be updated

With Yamaha coming out with a digital violin and this last being updated at 1978, before the invention of the Personal computer took hold, I have to say this book isn't doing most people a lot of good. We , now, have digital simulations of concert halls, instruments and sound boxes. Scientific American still seems "Mathematics Challenged" even when the computers do the math when you just type it in! The 1973 horn article by Arthur H. Benade seems the best to me, but I loved the Chiladni violin pictures as well.