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