This paper documents an instrument-building course codeveloped by the School of Engineering and Applied Science and the Department of Music at Yale University. The course focuses on the fundamentals of musical acoustics, electronic sound production, and instrument design through traditional lecture-based learning as well as a hands-on experimentation and building. The structure of the course, t...

Preface. When H. Bouasse published his Instrumentsà Vent in two volumes in 1929–30, he set the starting point for what can be regarded as modern research on musical acoustics. Some 40 years later, the stock of published papers could be counted in their hundreds. However, it is only during the last two or three decades that our physical understanding, in combination with the development of compu...

Abstract This study is written at the suggestion of Master Octav Calleya, a disciple Celibidache and Franco Ferrara, who addresses those passionate about Musical Phenomenology Acoustics. It not very technical, it more an introduction to “roots” this scientific approach music imposed by Celibidache, which can be open gate for want enter vast universe knowledge.

Notes, ornaments and intervals are examples of basic musical elements. Their representation as discrete-time digital audio plays a central role in software for music creation and design. Nevertheless, there is no systematic relation, in analytical terms, of these musical elements to the sonic samples. Such a compendium enables scientific experiments in precise and trustful ways, among education...

Online collaborative activities provide a powerful platform for the collection of psychoacoustic data on the perception of audio and music from a very large numbers of subjects. Furthermore, these activities can be designed to simultaneously educate users about aspects of music information and acoustics, particularly for younger students in grades K-12. We have created prototype interactive act...

The finite difference time domain (FDTD) method has direct applications in musical instrument modeling, simulation of environmental acoustics, room acoustics and sound reproduction paradigms, all of which benefit from auralization. However, rendering binaural impulse responses from simulated data is not straightforward to accomplish as the calculated pressure at FDTD grid nodes does not contain...

The study of a fractional Burgers equation arising in nonlinear acoustics is presented. The motivation comes from an elementary model of shock waves in brass wind instruments, that proves useful in musical acoustics. Such a model results from the coupling of a conservative nonlinear system with a dissipative term; here the dissipation is represented by a fractional derivative in time, for which...

This paper presents a free and open-source numerical framework for the simulation and the analysis of the sound production in reed and brass instruments. This tool is developed using the freely distributed Python language and libraries, making it available for acoustics student, engineers and researchers involved in musical acoustics. It relies on the modal expansion of the acoustic resonator (...