Physics 288/489: THE PHYSICS OF MUSIC   Fall, 2004

Lecture 11 (10/12)

HOMEWORK #2 DUE IN CLASS

Stringed instruments II.  The piano (continued).  Slight inharmonicity of piano partials and "stretched" tuning.  Bowed string instruments.  The violin family; Eastern bowed string instruments.  Bowing action and sound production. 

Reading: Hall Chap 11

Music Played:

Zoltan Kodaly, Intermezzo from Hary Janos (hammer-dulcimer, or in Hungary the cimbalom)

Nicolo Paganini, Caprice No. 24 in A minor

Ludwig van Beethoven, String Quartet Opus 131, 5th movement