Musical acoustics or music acoustics is the branch of acoustics concerned with researching and describing the physics of music – how sounds employed as music work. Examples of areas of study are the function of musical instruments, the human voice (the physics of speech and singing), computer analysis of melody, and in the clinical use of music in music therapy.
Read more about Musical Acoustics: Methods and Fields of Study, Physical Aspects, Subjective Aspects, Pitch Ranges of Musical Instruments, Harmonics, Partials, and Overtones, Harmonics and Non-linearities, Harmony, Scales
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“Sometimes a musical phrase would perfectly sum up
The mood of a moment. One of those lovelorn sonatas
For wind instruments was riding past on a solemn white horse.
Everybody wondered who the new arrival was.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)