Free Audio Editor - Completely free audio editor for Windows. Featured Download: WavePad Offers Full-Featured Audio Editing. ☮ Music: a Mathematical Offering ☮ Back to Dave Benson's front page The current online version (14 December 2008) is available FREE in pdf format here: music.pdf (10 megabytes, 531 pages). Please read further down about differences from print version. I have noticed many people putting old versions of this text online, especially on the usenet group alt.binaries.e-book.technical: PLEASE, PLEASE don't do this. The text is regularly updated, and your version is almost always out of date, sometimes by several years.
Finally, I get a large volume of email about this book. Published by Cambridge University Press, Nov 2006, 426 pages. UK: Hardback £65 / Paperback £26 USA: Hardback $126 / Paperback $48 AUS: Hardback A$225 / Paperback A$80 Can be obtained directly from CUP online (above) or bookshop (tel. 01223-333333); or from Amazon UK £25.99; Amazon USA $44.10; Amazon FR €29,38; Amazon DE €32,99; Amazon CA CDN$43.96; Amazon JP ¥5,213.
Current Chapter Headings (online version): 1. 1.1 What is sound? 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Appendices. Free Sounds Database. Top 10 Incredible Recordings - The List Universe. Weird Stuff Before I start on the list, I feel that I should advise that a couple of the items here are quite horrific and I would recommend that those who are weak of heart or who have a nervous disposition avoid them. The items I am referring to are marked in the text. The items are not in any particular order as it is very hard to rate the historical importance versus the just plain weird value. Alessandro Moreschi Only Recorded True Castrato The Castrati were men who were forcibly castrated at an early age in order to ensure that they would not experience the hormonal changes of puberty that lead to the lowering of the male voice.
Mado Robin Stratospheric Coloratura This amazing French singer has one of the highest recorded notes in classical music. Florence Foster Jenkins Worst Singer Believe it or not, Florence managed, despite being famously awful, to sell out an entire concert at Carnegie Hall. Pope Leo XIII . HOW TO: Send Audio/Your Voice Over a Beam of Light : intro. VioLet Composer.