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Taylor & Francis Acoustics And Psychoacoustics 5Th Edn by David M. Howard
The acoustics of a space can have a real impact on the sounds you create and capture. Acoustics and Psychoacoustics, Fifth Edition provides supportive tools and exercises to help you understand how music sounds and behaves in different spaces, whether during a performance or a recording, when planning a control room or listening space, and how it is perceived by performers, listeners, and recording engineers.With their clear and simple style, Howard and Angus cover both theory and practice by addressing the science of sound engineering and music production, the acoustics of musical instruments, the ways in which we hear musical sounds, the underlying principles of sound processing, and the application of these concepts to music spaces to create professional sound. This new edition is fully revised to reflect new psychoacoustic information related to timbre and temporal perception, including an updated discussion of vocal fold vibration principles, samples of recent acoustic treatments, and a description of variable acoustics in spaces, as well as coverage of the environment's effect on production listening, sonification, and other topics. Devoted to the teaching of musical understanding, an accompanying website (www.routledge.com/cw/howard) features various audio clips, tutorial sheets, questions and answers, and trainings that will take your perception of sound to the next level.This book will help you:Gain a basic grounding in acoustics and psychoacoustics with respect to music audio technology systemsIncorporate knowledge of psychoacoustics in future music technology system designs as appropriateUnderstand how we hear pitch, loudness, and timbre Learn to influence the acoustics of an enclosed space through designed physical modifications PrefaceChapter 1: Introduction to SoundChapter 2: Introduction to HearingChapter 3: Notes and HarmonyChapter 4: Acoustic Model for Musical InstrumentsChapter 5: Hearing Timbre and Deceiving the EarChapter 6: Hearing Music in Different EnvironmentsChapter 7: Applications: Acoustics and Psychoacoustics CombinedAppendix 1: The Fourier TransformAppendix 2: Solving the ERB EquationAppendix 3: Converting between Frequency Ratios and CentsAppendix 4: Deriving the Reverberation Time EquationAppendix 5: Deriving the Reverberation Time Equation for Different Frequencies and SurfacesAppendix 6: The Effect of Speaker Sixe on its Polar PatternAppendix 7: Track Listing for the Audio Compact DiscIndex