Book description
People have been playing music on homemade instruments for thousands of years. But creating new instruments is much more than an art form. When you want to make a note sound higher or lower, you have to change the sound waves coming out of the instrument. That's science! When you explore the way different materials produce different sounds, that's engineering. When you speed up or slow down a song, you're counting beats -- using math. And technology makes electronic instruments and devices to record and play back music possible.
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Table of contents
- Titlepage
- Copyright
- Acknowledgments
- Preface: Musical Inventors
- The Musical Inventions Supply Closet
- Introduction: The Science of Sound and the Art of Inventing Instruments
- Chapter 1: Singing Strings and Warbling Winds
- Chapter 2: Bells and Beats
- Chapter 3: Mechanical Music
- Chapter 4: Eerie Electronic Music
- Chapter 5: Recording and Listening
- Afterword: It’s Not Music Until You Make It Musical
- Index
- About the Author
Product information
- Title: Musical Inventions, 1st Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: May 2017
- Publisher(s): Make: Community
- ISBN: 9781680452334
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