The Physics of Music

From
Michigan Technological University

• Beats
• Scales (general comments)
• Just vs Equal Temperament
• Western Scales and Chords
• Pythagorean Scale
• Pentatonic Scales
• Hexatonic Scales
• Blues Scales
• Equal Tempered Scale - Table of Frequencies and Wavelengths in air
• Equal Temperament compared to Mean Tone - Table of Frequencies
• Some Other Scales
• Making sense of cents
• Conical vs Cylindrical Bores
• Clarinet Comments
• Sounds and Spectra
• Saxophone Sounds
• Make your own Flutes
• Fife dimensions
• G Flute from PVC Plumbing
• Native American - like PVC Flute
• Calculating Flute Finger Hole Positions
• Make your own wind chimes
• Acoustics in Tubes and Ducts
• Acoustic Filters
• Terminating Impedance
• Measuring propagation
• Duct and Filter References
• Room Acoustics
• Reverberation Time
• Absorbers
• Diffusers
• Table of Primitive Root and Quadratic Residue Sequences
• White Noise Sources
• The Linear Feedback Shift Register
• Other Tap Positions
• Blank Staffs for composing (PDF)
• Some General References