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- Fascinating and colourful book bringing new insights to Musical Acoustics and Music Psychology from nonlinear dynamics
- Recent research on nonlinearities and synchronization in
- Musical Acoustics and Music Psychology
- Written by a leading expert in the field
Part of the book series: Current Research in Systematic Musicology (CRSM, volume 2)
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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.
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Signal Processing
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Physical Modelling
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Musical Acoustics
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Music Psychology
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Nonlinearities and Synchronization in Musical Acoustics and Music Psychology
Authors: Rolf Bader
Series Title: Current Research in Systematic Musicology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36098-5
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-36097-8Published: 02 February 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-43024-4Published: 07 March 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-36098-5Published: 01 February 2013
Series ISSN: 2196-6966
Series E-ISSN: 2196-6974
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXI, 458
Number of Illustrations: 174 b/w illustrations, 28 illustrations in colour
Topics: Complexity, Engineering Acoustics, Acoustics