COURSE MATERIALS:
(PDF format unless otherwise noted)
Chapter Summaries
Chapter 1 & 2
Doppler Effect
Chapter 3 & 4
Temperament
Lecture Presentations
Basics of Sound Waves: Part A
Basics of Sound Waves: Part B
Sound Intensity Levels
Human Ear
Human Ear and Perception
Musical Elements: Timing, Perception of Pitch and Scales
Musical Elements B: More on Scales and Temperament
Strings and Scales
Plucked and Struck String Instruments
Bowed String Instruments
Helmholtz Resonators
Basics of Sound in Pipes
Basics of Flutes
Recorders, Pan Flutes, and Organ Flue Pipes
Reed Instruments
Brass Instruments
Stable Notes in Wind Instruments
Characteristic Sound (Timbre) of Wind Instruments
Percussion Instruments - I
Percussion Instruments - II
Basics of Room Acoustics- I
Basics of Room Acoustics - II
Sound Reproduction and Synthesis: Mostly Analog Systems
Sound Reproduction and Synthesis: Distortion and Its Correction
Sound Reproduction and Synthesis: Digital Reproduction
Misc File
Musical Staff is almost Logarithmic
Homework
Homework 1
Exams / Quizzes
Quiz 1
