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This classic work deals in a nonmathematical way with the interface between physics and music. There is a general introduction to wave motion and sound--its generation by vibration and the its reception by the ear and the brain. The sections that follow discuss consonance, dissonance, characteristic sounds of major instruments, the mechanical reproduction of music, and acoustics.Wood, Alexander is the author of 'Alexander Wood's Physics of Music', published 1981 under ISBN 9780313226441 and ISBN 031322644X.
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