Science Of Percussion Instruments
Published on 7. September 2000
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-981-02-4158-2 (ISBN)
Description
Percussion instruments may be our oldest musical instruments, but only recently have they become the subject of extensive scientific study. This book focuses on how percussion instruments vibrate and produce sound and how these sounds are perceived by listeners.
Reviews / Votes
"What singles this book out is the sheer diversity of instruments covered ... this is a very welcome book. It is fair to say that the science of percussion instruments would not have advanced anywhere near so far without the tireless enthusiasm and passion of Rossing and his students." Nature, 2001 "It forms a very nice survey work on an entire class of musical instruments ... I recommend it to anyone interested in acoustics and the physics of musical instruments." American Journal of Physics, Sept 2001 "This book would be valuable to a music library as well as for the acoustical scientific community. The performing percussionist will find this text extremely valuable as to how percussion instruments make their sounds. This is an extensive, well researched text for percussion reference." The Percussionist, 2001More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Singapore
Singapore
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
479 gr
ISBN-13
978-981-02-4158-2 (9789810241582)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
The percussion family; drums with definite pitch; interlude - sound and hearing; drums with indefinite pitch; interlude - vibrations of bars and air columns; xylophones and marimbas; metallophones; interlude - vibrations of plates and shells; cymbals, gongs and plates; music from oil drums - Caribbean steelpans; church bells and carillon bells; handbells, choirchimes, crotals and cow bells; eastern bells; glass musical instruments; other percussion instruments.