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Acoustics of Musical Instruments and Human Voice
FEKT-BPC-ANHAcad. year: 2024/2025
The subject deals with the five basic shapes of acoustic or electronic/virtual wave, the registers of musical instruments regarding spectral saturation and their loudness, the mixing of sound colours, masking and categories of the dynamic behaviour of a tone. Furthermore, the traditional as well as modern tone systems are characterized from the viewpoint of interpretation, types of listening rooms regarding their acoustics, the most frequent types of chamber bodies, variants of dispositions of a symphonic orchestra (European, American, etc.), the most common forms of vocal bands, and the most common configurations from other genres (rock, jazz, country).
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To obtain the credit it is necessary to complete at least 10 exercises during semester. Other forms of the checked instructions are specified by a regulation issued by the guarantee of the course and updated for every academic year.
Aims
The student will be able to:
- describe an ADSR sound envelope,
- name basic tonal systems and characterize them in terms of interpretation,
- describe keyboard, string, and wind instruments, both wood and brass, in terms of interpretation,
- describe solo voice singing and vocal bands,
- describe chamber bodies and bands in the area of popular music and symphonic orchestras and describe their most frequent configurations.
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Basic literature
Burhauser, J., Špedla, A.: Akustické základy orchestrace, Praha 1967
Cook, P. R. : Music, Cognition and Computerized Sound, An Introduction to Psychoacustics
Forró D.: Musitronika, elektroakustické hudební nástroje. II. Analogové a analogově-digitální syntetizéry, JAMU, Brno 2001
Forró D.: Musitronika, elektroakustické hudební nástroje. IV. Samplery, JAMU, Brno 2001
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