FF:VHK_07 Acoustics of Music - Course Information

VHK_07 Acoustics of Music

Extent and Intensity

0/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).

Teacher(s)

PhDr. Petr Kalina, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
doc. Mgr. Vladimír Maňas, Ph.D. (assistant)

Guaranteed by

doc. Mgr. Vladimír Maňas, Ph.D.
Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Vlasta Taranzová
Supplier department: Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

• Musicology (programme FF, B-OT)

Course objectives

At the end of the course students should know basic terms concerning acustics, sound, waves, tunning and acustical characteristics of individual instruments.

Syllabus

• Topics: Music instruments as acoustic sources
• frequency normal and its development
• Pythagoras tuning, physical tuning, damped and undamped resonator
• sensor acoustics
• mutual relation of sound, tone, noise and din
• radiation diagrams of music instruments
• resonance effect
• masking of tone
• acoustical units their importance and usage.

Literature

• KURFÜRST, Pavel. Organologie (propedeutika, exemplifikace) (Organology). 1st ed. Hradec Králové: Georgius, 1998, 379 pp. ISBN 80-902548-02. info

Teaching methods

Lectures.

Assessment methods

Written test.

Language of instruction

Czech

Follow-Up Courses

• VHK_22 Introduction to Organology

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: in blocks.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 4 hodiny.

• Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2014, recent)
  
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