Murray Campbell, Joël Gilbert, Arnold Myers

The Science of Brass Instruments (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

• Written by three internationally acknowledged experts in the acoustics and organology of brass instruments who are also experienced brass instrument players.

• Provides both an accessible introduction to brass instrument science and a review of recent research results and mathematical modeling techniques

Represents the first monograph on the science underlying the design and performance of musical instruments of the brass family

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer International Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 443
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783030556860
• Artikelnr.: 60958906

Autorenporträt

A team of researchers who each have more than 20 years' experience studying the acoustics and organology of brass instruments and who are all also regular performers on brass instruments.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I The Musician's Experience and The Scientific Perspective.- How Musicians Create, Perceive and Use the Sounds of Brass Instruments.- The Scientist's Perspective on Brass Instrument Behaviour.- Part II Acoustical Modelling of Brass Wind Instruments.- Buzzing Lips: The Sound Generating Mechanism in Brass Instruments.- After the Lips: Internal Propagation and Sound Radiation.- Part III Historical Evolution and Playing Properties.- Historical Evolution and Taxonomy of Brass Instrument Families.- Evaluating the Playing Properties of Brass Instruments.

Rezensionen

"The 2023 Nicholas Bessaraboff Prize for the most distinguished book-length publication in English is awarded to ... The Science of Brass Instruments ... . This collective effort of scholarship represents the culmination of decades of sustained, original, wide-ranging research into the science underpinning many facets of the world of brass instruments, including performance, design, timbre, acoustics, early history, and taxonomy. ... the authors have produced a significant, authoritative, and pioneering contribution to organological literature." (Bradley Strauchen-Scherer, William Hettrick and Matthew Zeller, American Musical Instrument Society, amis.org, May 11, 2023)