Encyclopaedia of Musical Science and Technology

Organology, Musical Acoustics and Musical Instrument Making

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Encyclopaedia Contents

Acoustics

Physical acoustics
- Oscillation & Waves
- Spectrum & Fourier transformation
- Sounds
Musical acoustics
- General
- Strings
- Air Columns
- Sticks
- Plates
- Membranes
- Boxes
Human voice
- Speech
- Singing
Psychoacoustics
- Physiology
- Psychoacoustics
Soundscape design
Architectural
Noise
Electroacoustics
Acoustical engineering

Music Theory

Notation
Music Fundamentals
- Melody
- Pitch
- Rhythm
- Harmony
- Scales and Modes
- Texture
- Allocation
- Timbre
- Dynamics
- Articulation
- Form or Structure
- Consonance and Dissonance
Music subjects
- Mathematics
- Temperaments
- Analysis
- Ear training
Harmonization
- Four-part writing
- Music perception and cognition
- Serial composition and set theory
- Musical semiotics
Music Styles

Workshop Practice

Safety Manual
Woodworking
- General techniques
  - Joints
  - Bending
  - Decoration
  - Varnishing
- For Stringed
- For Flutes
Metalworking
- Heat Treatments
Jigs, Tools & Machinery
- Hand Tools
- Power Tools
- Jigs & Fixtures
- CAD/CAM
Instrument making
Painting & Decorating

Materials

Vegetables
- Woods
  - Quartersawn Wood
  - Cork
  - Cane
- Wood Derivates
  - Plywood
Animals
Metals & Minerals
Plastics
Chemicals

Instruments

About Instruments
Aerophones
- With keyboard
  - Organ
  - Portative Organ
- Woodwinds
  - Cornetto
  - Dolzaina
  - Flute
  - Gemshorn
  - Pífano
  - Recorder
- Reeds
  - Acordeon
  - Bagpipes
  - Baroque Bassoon
  - Cornamusen
  - Curtal
  - Crumhorn
  - Dulcian
  - Fagot
  - Glastonbury Pipe
  - Rackett
  - Rauschpfeife
  - Shawm
  - Sordune
- Brasswinds
  - Trumpet
Chordophones
- With keyboard
  - Cembalino
  - Clavichord
  - Harpsichord
  - Hurdy-Gurdy
  - Piano
  - Spinet
  - Symphony
- Bowed
  - Bowed Psaltery
  - Cello
  - Double bass
  - Fiddle
  - Rebec
  - Viol
  - Violin
- Plucked and Hammered
  - Appalachian Dulcimer
  - Bouzouki
  - Cítara
  - Citole
  - Cittern
  - Guitar
  - Guittern
  - Hammered Dulcimer
  - Harp
  - Lute
  - Lyre
  - Mandolin
  - Plucked Psaltery
  - Ukelele
- Struck
  - Hammered Dulcimer
Electrophones
- Theremin
Idiophones
- Limberjack
- Sanza
Membranophones
- Bodhran
- Drum
- Nakers
- Tabor
- Taboret
- Timbrel
- Timpani

Appendices

Matematics
- Geometry
- Trigonometry
Physics
- Measurement
- Solid Mechanics
- Fluid Mechanics
Chemistry
Vocabulary

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