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Why You Hear What You Hear: An Experiential Approach to Sound, Music, and Psychoacoustics
Eric Johnson Heller
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Description for Why You Hear What You Hear: An Experiential Approach to Sound, Music, and Psychoacoustics
Hardback. Focuses on the physics of sound for the nonspecialist to empower readers with a hands-on, ears-open approach that includes production, analysis, and perception of sound. This book helps you discover how musical instruments really work, how pitch is perceived, and how sound can be amplified with no external power source. Num Pages: 624 pages, 397 color illus. BIC Classification: AV; PHDS; TTA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 260 x 212 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1932.
Why You Hear What You Hear is the first book on the physics of sound for the nonspecialist to empower readers with a hands-on, ears-open approach that includes production, analysis, and perception of sound. The book makes possible a deep intuitive understanding of many aspects of sound, as opposed to the usual approach of mere description. This goal is aided by hundreds of original illustrations and examples, many of which the reader can reproduce and adjust using the same tools used by the author (e.g., very accessible applets for PC and Mac, and interactive web-based examples, simulations, and analysis tools ... Read more
Why You Hear What You Hear is the first book on the physics of sound for the nonspecialist to empower readers with a hands-on, ears-open approach that includes production, analysis, and perception of sound. The book makes possible a deep intuitive understanding of many aspects of sound, as opposed to the usual approach of mere description. This goal is aided by hundreds of original illustrations and examples, many of which the reader can reproduce and adjust using the same tools used by the author (e.g., very accessible applets for PC and Mac, and interactive web-based examples, simulations, and analysis tools ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
624
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
624
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691148595
SKU
V9780691148595
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99-15
About Eric Johnson Heller
Eric J. Heller is the Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Physics at Harvard University, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Reviews for Why You Hear What You Hear: An Experiential Approach to Sound, Music, and Psychoacoustics
Why You Hear What You Hear ... has much to interest physicists and physics students... This book contains a lot of physical insight, and I think it will be the rare acoustician who does not enjoy reading it. I particularly liked the use of color coding to introduce (with a minimum of math) a graphical algorithm to represent autocorrelation. Also ... Read more