MUSI 3702 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Eardrum, Inner Ear, Efferent Nerve Fiber
25 May 2016
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Introduction to the acoustics & psychoacoustics of music. Know the names of the parts of the ear. A diagram from lecture notes will be on the midterm. Know that there is a central auditory system. Know what afferent and efferent nerve pathways are. Tonotopic (pitch geometry) central auditory system & organ of corti. Types of hearing loss: (know everything here: peripheral hearing loss: involving middle ear (ear drum and/or ossicles) or inner ear (cochlea) Etc. see online for the summary of this. Definitions of consonance and dissonance have fluctuated considerably throughout history. However the categorical conception of consonance and dissonance shown above has been relatively stable in both theory and practice during the last 400 years. Pythagorean theory: according to pythagorus, the smaller the numbers that express the ratio of the frequencies for an interval (or of the lengths of the corresponding strings), the more consonant the interval.
