INSTRUCTORS:
Fredrick I. Olness (office 201 Fondren Science, phone 768-2500)
Thomas W. Tunks (office 2122 OAC, phone 768-3454)
GUEST LECTURER:
George
Baker Associate University Organist
MEETINGS:
LECTURE: Tuesday & Thursday, 2:00 - 3:20, Fondren Science Rm. 158
LAB: Monday (1-3pm), (3-5pm) or (5-7pm), Fondren Science Rm. 60
Labs begin Monday August 25, 2014
BEWARE: On occasion, lecture and lab may be held in different rooms.
Link to Grade sheets: Lecture and Lab
Link to the PreLab and Lab Assignments (in PDF format)
Special
dates:
TBD
7:00-8:30pm
Professor George Baker
(Guest Lecturer for Phys 1320)
Perkins
Chapel:
Organ
Demonstration/Performance:
(Counts for 2 quizzes)
Make-up assignment if you missed Organ Demonstration (Due Nov. 27)
Thursday 6 November 2014
(class
time: 2:00-3:20 pm)
Room 158 Fondren Science Building
Professor Andres Diaz
Professor of Cello:
Demonstration/Performance/Lecture
TBD
(class
time: 2:00-3:20 pm)
Room 110 Junkins Building
Professor
Scott Douglas
From
Pythagoras to Walt Disney:
Demonstration/Performance
TBD
(in class: 2:00-3:20 pm)
Russ
Berger
President,
Berger Design Group:
Special lecture
presentation
Tuesday 4 November 2014
(Meadows OAC, Choral Hall Room 1180 - - 2:00-3:20 pm)
David
Brown
Piano
Technician:
Special lecture presentation
Friday December 12, XXXpm
(Final is Wednesday 17 December)
Fondren Science Room 202
TEXT:
John Backus (Author)
"The Acoustical Foundations of Music" Hardcover: 384 pages
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; 2 edition (December 1977)
REFERENCES:
Selected books will be placed on reserve.
GRADES: Components are:
|
KNW 2305 / Phys 1320 |
Phys 3320 |
MPSY 5340 |
|
exams (50% each) daily quizzes (20%) Laboratory (30%) |
exams (40% each) daily quizzes (20%) Homework (40%) |
exams (50% each) daily quizzes (20%) paper & presentation (20%) Laboratory (10%) |
GROUP PROJECT: Students can work in groups of 2 or 3 on a project of their choice. Suggestions for projects
PAPER & PRESENTATION (MPSY 5340 Only): Each student will be responsible for writing a paper 10 to 15 pages in length. You may, if you choose, submit your project in the form of a web page(s). The topic should be either the acoustics (psychoacoustics) of your own instrument or another acoustics topic of your choice. Presentations of this type are usually enhanced by a demonstration.
COURSE CONTENT: We will cover both the acoustics (physical sound properties) and the psychoacoustics (psychological, perceptual properties) of music. Topics will include sound in general, sound of musical instruments (including voice), sound characteristics of rooms, electronic production (synthesis) and reproduction of sound.
DEMONSTRATIONS: Demonstrations will be done in class sessions throughout the semester. You are encouraged to make suggestions about interesting ways to demonstrate the phenomena we are studying. Each class discussion will FOLLOW the reading of appropriate material, meaning that you will be expected to have completed the reading PRIOR to the class session for which it is listed. The same for tape listening assignments.
ASSIGNMENTS: Various problem sheets will be distributed for you to complete. Your completion of the problems is optional, and will be for your own benefit. As such, the problem sheets will not be graded. Other assignments, such as completing lab tasks and doing outside investigations will be considered under "participation".
Study Problems Fall 2014
Physics 1320 Music & Physics
Prof. Tunks & Olness
Chapt. 1: Questions: 1,2,4,5, Problems: 1,2,9,11
Chapt. 2: Questions: 1,5,7,8,9 Problems: 4,5
Chapt. 3: Questions: 6,8,9 Problems: 1,3,4,5,8,11,13,17,
Chapt. 4: Questions: 2,3, Problems: 1,2,4,5,6,14
Chapt. 5: Questions: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8, Problems: 1,4,8,9,10,11,12,14,16
Chapt. 6: Questions: 1,2, Problems: 1,2,3,4,5,8,9,10
Chapt. 7: Questions: 1,2, Problems: 1,2,3
Chapt. 8: Questions: 1,2,3,4,5,6 Problems: 1,4,7,9
Chapt. 9: Questions: 1,2,3 Problems: 1,2,3,4