Physics and Music: Essential Connections and Illuminating Excursions

Author:   Kinko Tsuji ,  Stefan C. Müller
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2021
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Pages:   424
Publication Date:   02 December 2022
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Author:   Kinko Tsuji ,  Stefan C. Müller
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2021
Weight:   0.676kg
ISBN:  

9783030686789


ISBN 10:   3030686787
Pages:   424
Publication Date:   02 December 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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Introduction.- Notation and Tonal Systems.- Intervals and Scales.- Tunings - from Pythagoras to Equal Temperament.- Comparison with Non-European Systems.-  Musical Instruments.- Selected Instruments 1 - Aerophones.- Selected Instruments 2 - Chordophones, Membranophones, Idiophones and Human Voice.- Create Music.- Play Together and Form an Orchestra.- Physiology and Psychoacoustics.- Room Acoustics.- Music Analysis with Phase Portraits.- What is Music Supposed to Do with our Mind and for Our Society?

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Kinko Tsuji is a physical chemist. She obtained her doctoral degree at the University of Tokyo in 1976. As a researcher she worked at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel and at the Max Planck Institutes in Munich and in Dortmund. Since 1981 she has worked at the company Shimadzu Europa GmbH, developing applications of ultra high-speed cameras. Furthermore, she was active in the “Japan Business Council in Europe” in Brussels and serves as a chairman of the planning committee. Stefan C. Müller is a physics professor at the University of Magdeburg, Germany. After obtaining his doctoral degree at the University of Göttingen in 1978, he spent 3 years of postdoctoral research in the USA, first at MIT and then at the Stanford University in California. He was a researcher at the Max Planck Institute in Dortmund from 1982 to 1994, before transferring his research to Magdeburg.

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