Sound
Click below for a compact reader, written by former colleagues Theo Pulles and Wim van Binsbergen, used by permission:
Geluidsleer (Dutch)
Acoustics (English)
Physics of sound
The video's below cover the physics of sound
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- How sound waves travel (Science man digital lessons)
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- Resonance (by Bart)
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- Overtones (by Bart)
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- Tunings (by Bart)
Affective key characteristics
In the resonance movie you learned the keys have an absolute value, and that transposing a song to another key might change its atmosphere.http://www.wmich.edu/mus-theo/courses/keys.html is a list with affective key characteristics from a book from 1806.
Tunings
If you want to check out the full framents of the tunings movie, click the links below
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- The piano tuner at work
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- Sweelincks Chromatic Fantasy in meantone tuning
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- Sweelincks Chromatic Fantasy in equal temperament
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- Just intonation