Science
& Music Series (60 min.
videos, Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 1990)
Technology,
Trumpet and Tunes
Technology of making wind
instruments, vibrations in tubes, valves for trumpets, role of finger holes, &
components of tone quality
What is
Music?
Musical sounds,
regularity of vibration, perception of musicality, & noise
Scales,
Synthesizers and Samplers
Origin of scales,
limitations of keyboards, pure electronic oscillations, and addition, subtraction,
multiplication, mixing of functions that make up complex sounds of music
Science,
Strings and Symphonies
Vibrations from plucking
vs bowing strings, Stradivari instruments, use of laser interferometry in studying the
production of sounds
The
Essence of an Instrument
Essential features of
instruments, producing regularity of pressure change, continuous notes, amplification, and
the use of synthesizers and computers