Wave Patterns

Most successful musicians know a hidden art carried out by the work of a good sound engineer; it is essential for a magnificent album. For the rest of us novice listeners and fans, we believe what we hear through our speakers or played over the radio are the true skilled professional musicians, soaring at their craft. Most contemporary music, from pop to R&B and acid jazz to the sophisticated realm of orchestral film scores, has been modernized by several inventions encased within the studio. The art of audio engineering has taken on new forms, from the nuts and bolts, "plug it in, and see if it works" era into the digital world, because of these wonderfully tragic solutions to a

When analyzing musical sound there are many factors to pay attention to during the performance. Important things to listen for are the pitch, scale, timbre, tone

The purpose of this experiment is to measure the speed of sound in air and to determine the effects of frequency on the speed of sound.

Gone are the days where artist, songwriters, performers, producers and records companies reap full successes of songs through stage performance and radio airplay. Since 1960, a technological evolution has created many changes in how music are made, played and performed. From the era where television and radio was popular with much of its viewers and listeners being the youth to development of the Internet and World Wide Web platforms, music suffered much development. Huge part of these changes was how music was delivered to the audience this time not on the radio or television but on the Internet websites where music

Music has been around for many centuries evolving new types of sound every single day. Music has come a long way; listening to music helps us stay focus, helps us relieve from stress, and just to preoccupied ourselves. In present day, they are many different variety of music ranging from folk to hip hop. The two songs “God’s Plan” by Drake Graham and “Shepherd's hey” by Percy Grainger are two songs that have a significant amount of differences. “Shepherd’s hey” is an original band composed song while “God’s plan” is hip hop. Showing differences in their dynamics, rhythm, and timbre these songs are relatively different from each other.

This aim for this project was to create a remix or mashup of different songs of our choice. We were to create the project on programs like Audacity or GarageBand. The intended audience for this remix was anyone that is interested in music. There is no specific age limit to this project considering it was made to be appropriate for everyone when making it. The purpose of this project was to gather an understanding on using programs like Audacity and enhance our skills.

Monophony, Polyphony, Heterophony, and Homophony are all textures of music. The texture of music is the structure of the different parts. Monophony music is that in which only has one part, while polyphony music consists of multiple parts. Heterophony and homophony are like polyphony, they have multiple parts. Homophony is when the multiple parts move with the same rhythm, this is also referred to as chordal music.

In this picture, I am plucking a chord on a violin. This is an example of simple harmonics and waves. The chords on a violin, or any stringed instrument, act as strings that are fixed at both ends. The vibration on the string, which was caused by me plucking it, is known as a standing wave, meaning it has nodes at both ends. The nodes are clearly seen as places where the amplitude is always zero. The antinodes are where the amplitude varies from zero to the maximum value. The first harmonic, or fundamental frequency, is seen in the picture. A wavelength is characterized as node to node to node. Therefore, for the first harmonic, the wavelength, ʎ, is equal to 2L, L being the length of the string. Since standing waves follow the standard relationship

Music is very popular in the world. It's always changing. They’re so many different types of music: rap, pop, jazz, rock, gospel, country, and even more. They’re so many songs out in the world that has cover songs. In this paper I had to choose any song from any genre and two covers of the original song and conduct a survey. I chose to stick with pop music because that's what most people prefer. The song that I chose was Hello by Adele. My two covers are made by The Animal In Me, cover one, and Leroy Sanchez, cover two. Doing the survey I will learn how people respond to cover songs. I predict that most people would choose the second cover song by Leroy Sanchez because it's a guy who sings and the way he sings it lets you know how he really feels about what he’s saying.

The paper illustrates the differences among individuals in the Frequency-following response (FFR) and its connection with pitch perception. Generally, the FFR is presumed to introduce the pitch of a particular sound perceived by individuals. FFR varies among individuals and the reason of this variability is still unknown. However, the authors of this paper carried out the investigation to find out the relation between FFR representation of the frequency of a complex tune and perception of the pitch of the fundamental frequency.

Ever since I attended my first concert I had a sudden realization that the music sounded so full and rich. It made me wonder how people get their music to sound the way they want it to sound. This had me consider how music is made along with all the steps in the process from writing it to distributing it. The process that most intrigued me was the production and mastering aspect of it, which comprised of taking the recordings of instruments or vocals and choosing what to do with them to make everything sound cohesive with one another. I had learned somewhat recently of how compression has impacted music both positively and negatively. If audio compression did not exist some aspects of music would never be able to be heard over others and music would cost more due to data compression of music files. This research question affected my values when it comes to obtaining music I will always buy the original album or

The meaning of the Doppler Effect is the effect of sound waves in relation to the relative motion between a sound source and a listener. In order to know the meaning of the Doppler Effect, you will have to know what pitch means. Pitch is how high or low a sound is heard. Also, the pitch of a sound is related to the how fast or slow the frequency of the sound wave is. After understanding

Compression is the process often used to make music appear to be louder without increasing its peak amplitude. By compressing the loudest signals, it becomes possible to increase the overall volume of a signal without exceeding the limits of a reproduction device or medium. This process has created what many call the loudness wars.

In 1955, a method of sound recording was developed that allows for the separate recording of multiple sound sources recorded at different times to create a unified whole called, multi-track recording. The introduction of multi-tracking was a major musical breakthrough because it allowed studio engineers to record all of the instruments and vocals for a song separately. In addition, this style of recording also allowed the studio engineer to adjust each individual track, and if needed, redo a certain part of the track to correct an error or try to get a better “take”. This advancement led to all sorts of new sounds that would not be able to be created outside the studio, and should be regarded by the musical world as one of the most influential technological advancements in popular music ever.

The relationship between the wavelength and the speed of the wave creates different frequencies from the guitar. The frequency is the number of wavelengths that occur per second. The equation is set up as the frequency equals the speed of the waves divided by the wavelength, or f = u § l . Frequency is measured in Hertz (Hz) and humans can generally hear between 20Hz and 20,000Hz, depending on the individual.