How Music Works: A Physical Culture Theory [1st ed. 2021] 3030671542, 9783030671549

Table of contents :
Introduction
Contents
*-20pt Part I
Some Fundamentals of Musical Acoustics
Play It Loud!
The Mysterious Sound of Friction
Linear Math and Nonlinear Nature
Hermann von Helmholtz
The First Synthesizers
Voice from Impulses
Unexpected Harmonicity
Why Are Musical Instruments Such Complex Boxes?
Who Wins the Game?
Eigenmodes Versus Forced Oscillations
What Makes a Musical Instrument Playable?
Damping Is a Feature, Determining Who Wins the Game
Synchronization as Output
Some Fundamentals of Music Psychology
Musical Instruments Treating the Psyche
Music and Trance
Aristoteles and the Beginning of Psychology
Transcendental Aesthetic
Transfer Effects of Music and Freedom of Will
Music and Politics
The Creation of Creativity
Brain Activities
The Split Between Hard and Soft Sciences
Fusion of Senses
Psychoacoustics
Some Fundamentals of Comparative Musicology
Music, DNA, and Sexulality
Diversity and Change
The Beginning of Comparative Musicology
Ethnomusicology and Music Archiving
Computational Music and Sound Archiving
*-20pt Part II
Impulses
What Is a Frequency?
How to Deal with Many Frequencies: The Fourier Theorem
Beyond Sinusoidals
Damping
Dispersion
Linearity or Nonlinearity
Impulse Pattern Formulation (IPF)
Environmental Noise
Musical Noise
Initial Transients
Information in Music
Turbulence
Turbulent and Laminar Flow
Navier-Stokes Equation
What Does Turbulence Lead To?
Saxophone
Saxophone Pitches Are Not Self-evident
Blowing in a Saxophone
Blowing Out of Normal Range
Multiphonics
Modeling Saxophones with Impulse Pattern Formulation
The Beginning of the Tone
The Saxophone Reed
More Wind Instruments
Recorder and Transverse Flute
Free Reed Instruments
Shawms, Oboes, Double-Reed Instruments
Brass Instruments
Articulation and Noise with Wind Instruments
Friction Instruments
Guitars and Plucked String Instruments
Practical Consequences for Guitar Acoustics
The Human Voice
Neurophysiology of Music
Self-organizing Models of the Brain
Music and Consciousness
Reconstructing Impulses—The Ear and the Auditory Pathway
Transfer of Acoustic Electricity into Neural Electricity: The Inner Ear
How Do We Hear a Pitch
A Spatio-Temporal Pitch Theory
How Do Tonal Systems Come into Place
Loops in the Auditory Pathway
Other Nerve Loops in the Auditory Pathway
Models of Music Perception
Timbre
Multidimensionality of Timbre
Music as Physical Adaption
IPF Comparison of Bowed and Wind Instruments
Neural Network Models of Timbre
Rhythm, Musical Form, and Memory
Neurophysiology of Time
Musical Form as Tension
Fractal Dimensions as Musical Density
Musical Form as Neural Synchronization
Efficient Coding
Brain Interactions in Music Therapy
Perception-by-Production as Self-organizing Process
*-20pt Part III
Music, Meaning, and Emotion
Freedom! Jazz! Dance! Yeah!
Slave to the Rhythm
Politics and Philosophy
Logic of Music
Physical Culture Theory
Predicting Culture
Physical Modeling or Artificial Intelligence?
Notions as Spatio-Temporal Patterns
The Musical System
Is Culture Conscious?
Appendix Notes
Appendix Discography
Appendix References

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