acoustics and physics

Suggests activities demonstrating how variations in the creation of sound can create musical tones for the human ear and why musical instruments produce sound.

Discusses how the various musical instruments produce sound and describes how records, tapes, and disks are made and how the playback equipment for them generates sound waves.

Explores what music is and how it is made, describing various kinds of instruments, and how technology has influenced music over the decades.

Focuses on how sound is produced, transmitted, and received. Activities explore aural skills through sound recognition, dynamics, and pitch variation.

Explains essential facts about sound, including human voices, how musical instruments work, echoes, and ultrasound. Includes experiments.

Discusses sound, both as a natural phenomenon and as an application in music, and provides related projects.

A guide to acoustics, drawing from science and psychology to answer questions about how music works, discussing harmony, keys, chords, loudness, composition, and other topics.

Explores how to make sounds and simple music with everyday objects.

This book explains how guitars and other objects make sounds--and sometimes music.