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Sound Waves
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The Science of Musical Sounds
New Premium Paperback - Bookstore Quality Edition!This is Mr. Mason's third contribution to the "Appreciation of Music Series," and in this work, he has made the world his debtor. Twelve of the most famous compositions of the great masters are analyzed in "Short Studies" in a masterly and entertaining way, demonstrating the thorough musicianship of the author. To get some idea of the scope of this work, here are a few of the masterpieces included: "NewWorld Symphony," by Dvorak; "Variations," by Elgar; "Pathetique Symphony," by Tchaikovsky; "Symphony No. 3," by Saint-Saens, etc. All the masterpieces analyzed by Mr. Mason in "Short Studies" are well known to the real musician.
Laboratory Physics
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Miller’s Waves
Dayton Miller, American physicist in the early twentieth century, known for research on medical x-rays and musical sounds, sought evidence for the luminiferous ether, joining the worldwide debate about relativity.
Tuning the World
Tuning the World tells the unknown story of how the musical pitch A 440 became the global norm. Now commonly accepted as the point of reference for musicians in the Western world, A 440 hertz only became the standard pitch during an international conference held in 1939. The adoption of this norm was the result of decades of negotiations between countries, involving a diverse group of performers, composers, diplomats, physicists, and sound engineers. Although there is widespread awareness of the variability of musical pitches over time, as attested by the use of lower frequencies to perform early music repertoires, no study has fully explained the invention of our current concert pitch. In t...
