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  title info:
    title: Nonlinearities and Synchronization in Musical Acoustics and Music Psychology
  name:
    name part: Bader, Rolf.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXXI, 458 p. 202 illus., 28 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: Nonlinearities are a crucial and founding principle in nearly all musical systems, may they be musical instruments, timbre or rhythm perception and production, or neural networks of music perception. This volume gives an overview about present and past research in these fields. In Musical Acoustics, on the one hand the nonlinearities in musical instruments often produce the musically interesting features. On the other, musical instruments are nonlinear by nature, and tone production is the result of synchronization and self-organization within the instruments. Furthermore, as nearly all musical instruments are driven by impulses an Impulse Pattern Formulation (IPF) is suggested, an iterative framework holding for all musical instruments. It appears that this framework is able to reproduce the complex and perceptionally most salient initial transients of musical instruments. In Music Psychology, nonlinearities are present in all areas of musical features, like pitch, timbre, or rhythm perception. In terms of rhythm production and motion, self-organizing models are the only ones able to explain sudden phase-transitions while tapping. Self-organizing neural nets, both of the Kohonen and the connectionist types are able to reproduce tonality, timbre similarities, or phrases. The volume also gives an overview about the signal processing tools suitable to analyze sounds in a nonlinear way, both in the Fourier-domain, like Wavelets or correlograms, and in the phase-space domain, like fractal dimensions or information structures. Furthermore, it gives an introduction to Physical Modeling of musical instruments using Finite-Element and Finite-Difference methods, to cope with the high complexity of instrument bodies and wave couplings. It appears, that most musical systems are self-organized ones, and only therefore able to produce all unexpected and interesting features of music, both in production and perception.
  table of contents: Introduction -- Signal Processing -- Frequency Representations -- Embedding Representations -- Physical Modelling -- Musical Acoustics -- Musical Instruments -- Impulse Pattern Formulation -- Examples of Impulse Pattern Formulation -- Music Psychology -- Psychoacoustic -- Timbre -- Rhythm -- Pitch, Melody, Tonality -- CD Tracks.
  note: by Rolf Bader.
  subject:
    topic: Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Acoustics
  subject:
    topic: Complexity, Computational
  subject:
    topic: Acoustical engineering
  subject:
    topic: Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Complexity
  subject:
    topic: Engineering Acoustics
  subject:
    topic: Acoustics
  classification: QA76.9.M35
  classification: 620
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Current Research in Systematic Musicology ; 2
  identifier: 9783642360985
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36098-5
  record info:
    record creation date: 130131
    record change date: 20151204162128.0
    record identifier: 978-3-642-36098-5