It covers a tremendously wide swath, everything from singing and linguistics, to loudspeakers and microphones, hearing in humans and the anatomy of the ear, the basic physics of sound, musical instruments and how they work, acoustics, electronic music and the use of computers.
There are even a few chapters on noise, its effects on humans and how to control it. And more! It's an overview, a semi-technical introduction to the study of sound. There is no way it can cover these things in any depth; in fact, there are entire books that specialize in the topics covered in any one chapter. There are several complaints in the reviews that mention the lack of depth. True enough, but there is a bibliography at the end of every chapter and, if you want something more immediate simply do a search here on the Amazon site e.
In many cases they know a lot more than I do and I find them quite useful. The main author, Thomas D. Rossing, has studied sound for many years and has a lot of books on the subject. Fletcher, also a longtime researcher in sound. It is a technical work for those with an engineering or science background and will give you much more depth than this book can. This is a good book for its intended audience; the subject is large and there are books on just about everything about it, some technical, some not so technical.
The book is informative and light. This is given that you do actually know some of the basics taught in freshman physics. If you're too busy doing all your sciency stuff to pick up that keyboard or violin that's been collecting dust, this may be a class that appeases you for the time being. This book is exceptionally clear in its writing and careful attention to definitions and summaries of key facts.
I wish all of my technical books were this clear. Search for:. Wheeler - StudyBlue. Thomas D'amato M. Excellent book The only thing women love more than diamonds is a lecture on the property of waves.
Great book, I used to for a couple classes. Very easy to understand for beginners. Wonderful textbook and a necessity for those in the audio engineering field. This is given By Electricaesahaettr on Nov 24, The book is informative and light.
Easy to read. For physics class at NIU This book is exceptionally clear in its writing and careful attention to definitions and summaries of key facts. What is Sound? Vibrating Systems. Sound Pressure, Power, and Loudness. Pitch and Timbre. Combination Tones and Harmony. Musical Scales and Temperament. String Instruments. Brass Instruments. Woodwind Instruments.
Percussion Instruments. Keyboard Instruments. Speech Production. Speech Recognition, Analysis, and Synthesis. Electronic Circuits. Microphones, Amplifiers, and Tuners. Digital Circuits and Techniques. Sound Recording. Auditorium Acoustics. Electronic Reinforcement of Sound. Music Technology and its Origins. Analog Electronic Music. Digital Audio and Processing. Computer Music and Virtual Acoustics. Noise in the Environment. At the same time, for the expert, it is too little.
Therefore, it appeals to neither the introductory level nor the more advanced level. I gave up using this book. I have used this book as the primary textbook for an introductory course in the physics of music. It is at a somewhat higher level than some of its competitors e. It is the most thorough and informative book I have seen at this level. However, the students complained that it was somewhat dull.
Also, the section on electronic reproduction of music is out of date--relatively little on CD's etc. Still, I plan to use it again. This book is terrible for beginners. It doesn't explain things well. The graphs and diagrams are hard to understand and it doesn't give enough examples to help you do the exercises at the end of the chapter.
Also, there are a lot of typos and errors. For instance I tried to look up 'attenuation of sound' in the index and the word was there with no page number.
And I found a graph where the graph didn't match the descrpition. I have the advantage of having one of the authors of the book as my professor, and I still have a hard time understanding this book. It's horrible. I think this textbook failed to expain each of the topics. A longer explanation of the given topics which were mostly experiments should have been given. This book, aside from all the other negatives listed in these reviews, is written like a laundry list without passion or insight.
It is well nigh impossible for a curious person to get excited about this book. It might make a good book for 'check-off' courses you know, valves? This book was required for a Musical Acoustics course. Worst textbook choice ever! Firstly, at pages, it's too thick and heavy to take to class, even in a backpack. Second, the diagrams in the textbook are really old and in black and white and hard to tell what's going on.
The book explains everything poorly. It covers so many topics that weren't even discussed in the class. The way it explains equations is terrible, especially when four different equations in the same chapter use the same letter to mean different things. Nothing is explained in an intuitive way. If you read everything carefully twice and double it up with Wikipedia, you might grasp the concepts. Bottom line, whatever bad things that could be said about a book, I want to say about this book.
But if I want to be fair, it deserves more than one star. I mean, it does cover a large amount of material, and the summaries at the end of the chapters do provide a decent overview.
The only thing women love more than diamonds is a lecture on the property of waves. Now I know how acoustic scientists walk around with all of that confidence. An abundance of writing and grammatical errors do not make the already confusing explanations in this book any easier to grasp. I got bogged down in technical mistakes before I could begin to use the provided formulas. This is one of the worst textbooks I've ever read, and taking a supplemental course from one of the authors only added to one of the worst experiences of my college career.
I have found this to be a very good reference book for just about everything about sound. It covers a tremendously wide swath, everything from singing and linguistics, to loudspeakers and microphones, hearing in humans and the anatomy of the ear, the basic physics of sound, musical instruments and how they work, acoustics, electronic music and the use of computers.
There are even a few chapters on noise, its effects on humans and how to control it. And more! It's an overview, a semi-technical introduction to the study of sound. There is no way it can cover these things in any depth; in fact, there are entire books that specialize in the topics covered in any one chapter.
There are several complaints in the reviews that mention the lack of depth. True enough, but there is a bibliography at the end of every chapter and, if you want something more immediate simply do a search here on the Amazon site e. In many cases they know a lot more than I do and I find them quite useful. The main author, Thomas D. Rossing, has studied sound for many years and has a lot of books on the subject.
Fletcher, also a longtime researcher in sound. It is a technical work for those with an engineering or science background and will give you much more depth than this book can. This is a good book for its intended audience; the subject is large and there are books on just about everything about it, some technical, some not so technical.
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