Sound : a very short introduction / Mike Goldsmith.
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TextSeries: Very short introductions: 451.Publisher: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: First editionDescription: xvi, 140 pages : illustrations ; 18 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780198708445; 0198708440Subject(s): Sound | Hearing | Hearing | Sound | Geräusch | AkustikDDC classification: 534 LOC classification: QC225.15 | .G66 2015| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-130) and index.
Past sounds -- The nature of sound -- Sounds in harmony -- Hearing sound -- Electronic sound -- Ultrasound and infrasound -- Sound underwater and underground -- Sound out of place.
Sound is integral to how we experience the world, in the form of noise as well as music. But what is sound? What is the physical basis of pitch and harmony? And how are sound waves exploited in musical instruments? In this book Mike Goldsmith looks at the science of sound and explores sound in different contexts, covering the audible and inaudible, sound underground and underwater, acoustic and electric, and hearing in humans and animals. He also considers the problem of sound out of place - noise and its reduction.-- Source other than the Library of Congress.
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