Science Of Percussion Instruments

Thomas D Rossing (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

2000
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd (Verlag)
978-981-02-4158-2 (ISBN)

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An examination of how percussion instruments vibrate and produce sound, and how these sounds are perceived by listeners.

Percussion instruments may be our oldest musical instruments, but only recently have they become the subject of extensive scientific study. This book focuses on how percussion instruments vibrate and produce sound and how these sounds are perceived by listeners.

The percussion family; drums with definite pitch; interlude - sound and hearing; drums with indefinite pitch; interlude - vibrations of bars and air columns; xylophones and marimbas; metallophones; interlude - vibrations of plates and shells; cymbals, gongs and plates; music from oil drums - Caribbean steelpans; church bells and carillon bells; handbells, choirchimes, crotals and cow bells; eastern bells; glass musical instruments; other percussion instruments.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	7.9.2000
Reihe/Serie	Series In Popular Science ; 3
Mitarbeit	Herausgeber (Serie): Richard J Weiss
Verlagsort	Singapore
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Instrumentenkunde
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Mechanik
ISBN-10	981-02-4158-5 / 9810241585
ISBN-13	978-981-02-4158-2 / 9789810241582
Zustand	Neuware