The Physics of Music , Revised by J.M. Bowsher

Methuen & CO LTD Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1962 Book condition, Etat : Bon hardcover, under editor's blue dust-jacket In-8 1 vol. - 270 pages

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16 plates (complete), and numerous text-figures in black and white 6th edition, revised by J.M. Bowsher Contents, Chapitres : Preface to the first, to the 6th edition, Contents, List of illustrations, Acknowledgments, xii, Text, 258 pages - The nature of sound - Forced vibration and resonance - Intensity and loudness - Pitch - Musical quality - The ear - Vibrations of strings - Organ pipes - Sundry other musical instruments - Dissonance and consonance - Scales and temperament - Recording and reproduction of sound - Halls ans concert rooms - Bibliography and Index minor wear on the dust-jacket which remains complete and near fine, inside is clean and fine, no markings