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

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

OSCILLATIONS AND SOUND WAVES

Lecture 1 (9/7)

Lecture 2 (9/9) 

Lecture 3 (9/14) 

Lecture 4 (9/16)

Lecture 5 (9/21)

Lecture 6 (9/23)

Lecture 7 (9/28)

FROM SOUND TO MUSIC: NOTES AND THE WESTERN SCALE

Lecture 8 (9/30)

Lecture 9 (10/5)

THE PHYSICS OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

Lecture 10 (10/7) Stringed Instruments I: The Guitar family; the Piano

Lecture 11 (10/12) Stringed Instruments II: The bowed instruments

Lecture 12 (10/14) -- Organ Demonstration (meet on North Campus)

MIDTERM EXAM (10/21)

Lecture 13 (10/26) Blown Pipes and Flutes

Lecture 14 (10/28) Reed and Brass Instruments

Lecture 15 (11/2) -- Percussion Instruments (meet on North Campus at 7pm)

Lecture 16 (11/4) -- The Human Voice

Lecture 17 (11/9) -- The Carillon (meet at usual place; we will walk to the Central Campus Bell Tower)

Lecture 18 (11/11) -- Review of Musical Instruments

ACOUSTICS, PERCEPTION OF MUSIC

Lecture 19 (11/16) -- Analog and Digital Sound Reproduction

Lecture 20 (11/18) -- Acoustics

Lecture 21 (11/23) -- Acoustics: Meet at Hill Auditorium

Lecture 22 (11/30) -- Localization and perception of sound

Lecture 23 (12/2) -- Perception of musical pitch

Lecture 24 (12/7) -- Musical structure: rhythm and meter

Lecture 25 (12/9) -- Harmonic progression in music

FINAL EXAM (12/14) -- 1:10-2:30 in the usual place (Dennison 170)