Books with title Sound, Noise, and Music

Excerpt from Sound and MusicThe present volume has grown out of a course of lectures given last year in the Catholic University of America at Washington, D. C. Yielding to numerous requests to have the lectures published, my first intention was to give them to the press substantially as they were first delivered. When, however, I came to revise them, I soon found myself making many alterations and additions; and by the time the task of revision was complete, I became aware that I had practically written a new work. The object in view was to give a more complete exposition of the subject treated than had been possible in the lectures actually delivered, and to make the volume now offered to the public embrace in greater detail all the latest results of acoustical research. I have been led to retain the lecture form, as being more animated and picturesque, and as being more in keeping with the character of a work which deals so largely with apparatus and experiments.The main purpose of the book is to give musicians and general readers an exact knowledge, based on experiment, of the principles of acoustics, and to present at the same time a brief exposition of the physical basis of musical harmony.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.