Category:Musical performance techniques. Art of Composing — Learn the Art of Music Composition. How to Compose Music - Lesson 3 - The Musical Period. Physics of Music - Notes. Questions/Comments to: suits@mtu.edu Get Free Adobe Acrobat Reader (TM) for PDF filesThese notes initially arose after a short summer program in 1998 and are placed here for the convenience of anyone who cares to read them. The author is B. H. Suits, Physics Department, Michigan Technological University, copyright 1998-2015.
There are no pop-ups or ads of any kind on these pages. If you are seeing them, they are being added by a third party without the author's consent. To Suits PageTo PH1090 - The Physics Behind Music - course page(PH1090 is now being made available online - see the link above)To MTU Physics Home . Musical acoustics. Musical acoustics or music acoustics is the branch of acoustics concerned with researching and describing the physics of music – how sounds employed as music work. Examples of areas of study are the function of musical instruments, the human voice (the physics of speech and singing), computer analysis of melody, and in the clinical use of music in music therapy.
Methods and fields of study[edit] Physical aspects[edit] A spectrogram of a violin playing a note and then a perfect fifth above it. The shared partials are highlighted by the white dashes. Subjective aspects[edit] Pitch ranges of musical instruments[edit] *This chart only displays down to C0, though the Octocontrabass clarinet extends down to the B♭ below that C. Harmonics, partials, and overtones[edit] Overtones which are perfect integer multiples of the fundamental are called harmonics. The fundamental frequency is considered the first harmonic and the first partial.
Harmonics and non-linearities[edit] Harmony[edit] Scales[edit]