MUSI 3702 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Psychoacoustics, The Peripheral, Joseph Sauveur
25 May 2016
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Musi 3702: introduction to the acoustics & psychoacoustics of music. Acoustics branch of physics concerned with physical nature and properties of sound. Psychoacoustics branch of psychology concerned with the perception of sound and its physiological effects. *there is a lot of gap filling that goes on in perception (due to light), computers cannot do this. *we can never know the external world in a meaningful sense because we don"t have direct access to it. *we only know the world from what we think. Noumenal material world understanding phenomenal mental world. Origins of music flute formed a long time ago in ancient times. Music as many different functions serves rituals, for games, communication, expression, religion, etc. Music & play performed, rule-governed, other-worldly, gratifying in itself, valued for aesthetic qualities, childlike & pre-linguistic, spatially and temporally circumscribed, etc. Ancient greeks came up with seven foundational arts and sciences. Human hearing range: 15 hz - 20,000 hz.
