Thursday, April 24, 2008

Music, Physics and Engineering


Harry F. Olson “Music, Physics and Engineering"
Dover Publications | 1967-06-01 | ISBN: 0486217698 | 320 pages | Djvu | 11,4 Mb


This extraordinarily comprehensive text, requiring no special background in physics, math or music, discusses the nature of sound waves, musical instruments, musical notation, acoustic materials, elements of sound reproduction systems — from the telephone to stereo sound systems — and electronic music. "Very thorough, and full of well-presented facts." — Musical Times. Includes 376 figures.