What is music?
Whenever the pressure of air is changed rapidly-by the beating of a drum, rattling a stick in a can, plucking a string stretched across a box-the ear-brain system detects the pressure changes as sound, which travels from source to listener as sound waves. This program examines sound waves: why some...
| Other Authors: | Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm), Infobase., INCA (LONDON) Ltd. |
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| Format: | Video |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York, N.Y. :
Infobase,
[2005], c1989.
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| Physical Description: |
1 streaming video file (60 min.) : sd., col., digital file. |
| Series: |
Science and music (New York, N.Y.)
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| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Exploring the Science of Music (4:22)
- Bell Jar Experiment (2:20)
- Music with Instruments and MIDI (2:22)
- Pressure and the Human Ear (3:18)
- Human Wave Experiment (2:55)
- Sound Travels Through Wood (3:22)
- Nature of Sound and Music (2:34)
- Recognizing Patterns (4:28)
- Frequency and Pitch (5:21)
- Xylophone
- A Simple Instrument (3:39)
- Many Things Produce Musical Sounds (2:46)
- Music Recognition by Sight (4:57)
- Rhythm and Harmony (4:33)
- Pleasant and Unpleasant Sounds (3:00)
- Harmony in Context (3:53)
- Programming the Brain (3:31)