Spectral Analysis of Musical Sounds: Emphasis on the Piano
David M. Koenig, Corning, Inc.;
Delwin D. Fandrich, Fandrich Piano Company
Oxford University Press, 2015
ISBN: 978-0-19-872290-8;
Language: English
Spectral Analysis of Musical Sounds: Emphasis on the Piano addresses the analysis of musical sounds from the viewpoint of physicists, engineers, piano technicians, and musicians.
The text is structured into three parts. In part one, the reader is introduced to a variety of waves and a variety of methods used to present, visualize, and analyze. A tutorial on the tools used throughout the book accompanies this introduction; the mathematics behind the tools is in the appendices. Part two of the text provides a graphical survey of the classical areas of acoustics that pertain to musical instruments: vibrating strings, bars, membranes, and plates. Part three is devoted almost exclusively to the piano. Several two and three-dimensional graphical tools are introduced to study various characteristics of pianos: individual notes and interactions among them, the missing fundamental, inharmonicity, tuning visualization, the different distribution of harmonic power for various zones of the piano keyboard, and potential uses for quality control. These techniques are also briefly applied to other musical instruments studied in earlier parts of the book.
For physicists and engineers, there are appendices included to cover the mathematics hidden beneath the numerous graphs; a brief introduction to MATLAB is also included, which is used to generate graphs. In addition, a supplemental set of MATLAB code files are available for download.
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