PHYS 1240: Sound and Music
Summer 2019


Additional Links


Applets/Animations

 

Spectrogram web applet

Frequency tone generator

Virtual piano

Phet Sound Simulations

Wave Ripple Tank

Acoustics/Vibrations Animations by Dan Russell


Psychoacoustics

 

Diana Deutsch's Audio Illusions

Audio Illusions (AsapSCIENCE) [3:29]

Audio Illusions pt 2 (AsapSCIENCE) [3:49]

The yanny/laurel phenomenon

Tartini tones [5:11]

3D animation showing how the ear detects sound [6:43]


Instruments

 

Theremin

Whistles

World's largest musical instrument: Great Stalactite Organ (though it's actually a lithophone, not an organ)

Archicembalo (keyboard with 19 notes per octave instead of 12)


Other Interesting Links

Anechoic chamber: can silence drive you crazy? (Veritasium) [10:32]

MRI Image of the Vocal Tract [0:34]

International Phonetic Alphabel (IPA) Chart

Bobby McFerrin - pentatonic scale [2:52]

Why It's Impossible to Tune a Piano (MinutePhysics) [4:19]

Just Intonation (with audio examples)

How Acoustic Shadows changed the Civil War


Learning Resources

 

Hartmann's Principles of Musical Acoustics textbook (can be accessed online on campus network)

Music Acoustics (University of New South Wales): Great resource for current research in music science as well as detailed science behind instruments (including didgeridoos). Also check out their FAQ page for plenty of intriguing acoustics questions.

Helmholtz's On the Sensation of Tone: The foundational text of the physics and physiology of sound and music, first published in 1863.