How We Hear Music - The Relationship between Music and the Hearing Mechanism (Paperback, New Ed)

Covers much of the acoustics a student needs, without mathematics or scientific background. Choice Outstanding Academic Title A survey of intervals and scales, tone pitch, loudness and time in Western music raises many questions about the hearing mechanism and throws doubt on the conventional role of harmonics. James Beament's account of how musical sounds are coded by the ear and the brain's processing units, provides answers to most of these questions. It concludes that music started with simple instruments which voices imitated, and that the need to know sound direction determined the characteristics of hearing. This book will interest students, practising musicians and music psychologists, and assumes no scientific knowledge. The late ProfessorSir JAMES BEAMENT was a distinguished scientist and musician, who taught and examined music students at Cambridge University.

General

Imprint:	The Boydell Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	April 2003
First published:	2003
Authors:	James Beament
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	188
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-85115-940-9
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Popular science Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General Books > Language & Literature > Language teaching & learning (other than ELT) > Specific skills > Listening skills Books > Medicine > Clinical & internal medicine > Otorhinolaryngology (ENT) > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Human biology & related topics > General Books > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General
LSN:	0-85115-940-0
Barcode:	9780851159409

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