Studies in Musical Acoustics and Psychoacoustics (Current Research in Systematic Musicology Book 4)

"This book comprises twelve articles which cover a range of topics from musical instrument acoustics to issues in psychoacoustics and sound perception as well as neuromusicology. In addition to experimental methods and data acquisition, modeling (such as FEM or wave field synthesis) and numerical simulation plays a central role in studies addressing sound production in musical instruments as well as interaction of radiated sound with the environment. Some of the studies have a focus on psychoacoustic aspects in regard to virtual pitch and timbre as well as apparent source width (for techniques such as stereo or ambisonics) in music production. Since musical acoustics imply subjects playing instruments or singing in order to produce sound according to musical structures, this area is also covered including a study that presents an artificial intelligent agent capable to interact with a real ('analog') player in musical genres such as traditional and free jazz."--Page 4 of cover Front Matter....Pages i-xii Japanese Flutes and Their Musical Acoustic Peculiarities....Pages 1-47 Acoustics of the Qin....Pages 49-74 Tone Production of the Wurlitzer and Rhodes E-Pianos....Pages 75-107 Feedback of Different Room Geometries on the Sound Generation and Sound Radiation of an Organ Pipe....Pages 109-142 Acoustical Modeling of Mutes for Brass Instruments....Pages 143-186 Experimental Approaches to the Study of Damping in Musical Instruments....Pages 187-200 Comparison of Vocal and Violin Vibrato with Relationship to the Source/Filter Model....Pages 201-221 Vowel Quality in Violin Sounds—A Timbre Analysis of Italian Masterpieces....Pages 223-245 Sound, Pitches and Tuning of a Historic Carillon....Pages 247-298 Source Width in Music Production. Methods in Stereo, Ambisonics, and Wave Field Synthesis....Pages 299-340 Methods in Neuromusicology: Principles, Trends, Examples and the Pros and Cons....Pages 341-374 An Intelligent Music System to Perform Different “Shapes of Jazz—To Come”....Pages 375-403 Explorations in Keyboard Temperaments. Some Empirical Observations....Pages 405-444