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Product Identifiers

PublisherDover Publications, Incorporated

ISBN-100486217647

ISBN-139780486217642

eBay Product ID (ePID)1016962

Product Key Features

Number of Pages208 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameMusic, Sound and Sensation : a Modern Exposition

Publication Year2012

SubjectInstruction & Study / Appreciation, Physics / General, Acoustics & Sound

TypeTextbook

AuthorFritz Winckel

Subject AreaMusic, Science

SeriesDover Books on Physics Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Weight7.6 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

Dewey Edition21

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal781.2/2

SynopsisThis excellent text offers thorough, nontechnical coverage of psychoacoustics: loudness, dissolution power of the ear, influence of hall properties, function of time variation, sound spectrum, musical space, electroacoustic sound structure, and other key topics., Related closely to the field of physical acoustics is that of psychoacoustics, which deals with the phenomena of musical hearing from a psychological and aesthetic point of view. One of the major contributors to our understanding of the subject is Fritz Winckel. When this book first appeared in German in 1960, reviewers pressed for an English translation. This Dover volume is an answer to that demand: it makes Professor "Winckel's important study generally available to English-language readers for the very first time." It has been extensively revised and updated by the author. In his thought-provoking study, Professor Winckel applies the findings of technical researches in acoustics to the practice of music, covering many different aspects of recent psychoacoustical researches: the evaluation of loudness and the dissolution power of the car; the influence of the acoustical properties of the concert hall on the hearing process; the function of time variation and rhythm in musical perception; the evaluation of the sound spectrum including the unharmonic components. He surveys extensively the German and English literature in the field, organizing his information into chapters on stationary sound, the onset behavior of sound, the concept of space, the concept of time, the evaluation of sound through the hearing mechanism, unclarity in musical structures, simultaneously sounding tones, electroacoustic sound structure, and the effect of music on the listener. This book should prove equally useful to acousticians, sound engineers, and others working in this area of applied physics and to composers, performers, and musicologists concerned with the technical aspects of music. Psychologists working in the field of sense perception will also find much of value here. New translation by Thomas Binkley of the 1960 German edition of Ph nomene des musikalischen H rens, with revisions and corrections by the author., This excellent text offers thorough, nontechnical coverage of psychoacoustics: loudness, dissolution power of the ear, influence of hall properties, function of time variation, sound spectrum, musical space, electroacoustic sound structure, and other key topics. New translation of the 1960 German edition by Thomas Binkley. 111 figures., Related closely to the field of physical acoustics is that of psychoacoustics, which deals with the phenomena of musical hearing from a psychological and aesthetic point of view. One of the major contributors to our understanding of the subject is Fritz Winckel. When this book first appeared in German in 1960, reviewers pressed for an English translation. This Dover volume is an answer to that demand: it makes Professor "Winckel's important study generally available to English-language readers for the very first time." It has been extensively revised and updated by the author. In his thought-provoking study, Professor Winckel applies the findings of technical researches in acoustics to the practice of music, covering many different aspects of recent psychoacoustical researches: the evaluation of loudness and the dissolution power of the car; the influence of the acoustical properties of the concert hall on the hearing process; the function of time variation and rhythm in musical perception; the evaluation of the sound spectrum including the unharmonic components. He surveys extensively the German and English literature in the field, organizing his information into chapters on stationary sound, the onset behavior of sound, the concept of space, the concept of time, the evaluation of sound through the hearing mechanism, unclarity in musical structures, simultaneously sounding tones, electroacoustic sound structure, and the effect of music on the listener. This book should prove equally useful to acousticians, sound engineers, and others working in this area of applied physics and to composers, performers, and musicologists concerned with the technical aspects of music. Psychologists working in the field of sense perception will also find much of value here. New translation by Thomas Binkley of the 1960 German edition of Phänomene des musikalischen Hörens, with revisions and corrections by the author.