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Landmark book by leading expert, hailed for its astonishingly clear, delightfully readable explication of everything acoustical important to music-making. "Comprehensive . . . rigorous . . . well-organized . . . will surely be the text of choice." — American Scientist. "Recommended for music lovers and audiophiles" — Stereo Review. Over 300 illustrations. Examples, experiments, and questions conclude each chapter.
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In a landmark book in its field, this book deals extensively with the fundamental modes of sound production and sound-producing properties of the musical instruments in common use today.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Benade is One of the Greats in This field,
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This review is from: Fundamentals of Musical Acoustics: Second, Revised Edition (Paperback)
I studied with Dr. Benade, taking his course in musical acoustics, at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, some years ago. Dr. Benade was a brilliant and dedicated scientist in the area of musical acoustics, but he was highly opinionated and sometimes inflexible. He refused to accept, for example, that flutes could produce "whisper tones", a standard 20th Century player's/composer's technique which I have used many times in my compositions (and can perform myself on the flute).Nonetheless, this book is a very important book to read and own if you are interested in the fundamentals of the acoustics of musical instruments (not performing spaces as other reviewers have pointed out). This book was the text which Benade used to teach his courses. Add this to your collection of musical acoustics books...and be sure to include "Horns Strings and Harmony", Benade's earlier book, as well as the book by John Pierce and of course the book by Helmholtz.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Reasonably informative without much technical info,
This review is from: Fundamentals of Musical Acoustics: Second, Revised Edition (Paperback)
This book, like practically all Dover science books, is a reprinted old book that does not incorporate any of the recent research in acoustics. For example, much research on acoustics as related to the design of a theatre is not in here. However, if you have a good grasp of fundamental physics (say, you took some good college physics classes but it has been quite a few years back), and now you just want to see how the physics you learned apply to the making of musical instruments, this book provides a nice overview.
2.0 out of 5 stars
Very outdated,
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This review is from: Fundamentals of Musical Acoustics: Second, Revised Edition (Paperback)
Of historical interest only, this book never was a comprehensive overview of musical acoustics, instead focusing on Benade's interests. Now, it is horribly outdated. Much interesting work is not in here...in fact there is no really top notch acoustics book with modern research available at this time.
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