Music Definition and 433 Threads

When I watch videos of directors beginning a musical performance, I usually cannot tell how they designate a particular instant of time when the musicians are supposed to start playing. Perhaps each conductor has his own habits and the musicians must get used to them? Or perhaps the director...

Hi, My daughter's first ever song, titled 'Confined' got published on Spotify/YouTube and few other websites. She did the complete work by herself, including lyrics, music, singing, guitar and Piano. Would like to request all of you to please support her by listening/subscribing to the song and...

Hey everyone - I run a music school and learning about how sound works is really helpful in talking about tone production, volume, and just understanding in general what's going on. As part of that,. I'm looking for a pattern that I could print on a drum head that would show how the head moves...

Sorry if this is the wrong place for this question. I am a musician and recording engineer trying to learn about why my bass guitar recordings sometime appear with the waveform going up first (positive polarity) and other times going down first (negative polarity) in my DAW (digital audio...

Tests of a mini-Stonehenge indicates it was acoustically suited for music and voices. Science News article Original research article Thus is was probably a good place to use for meetings of humans involving different audio features. This argument is reminiscent (to me anyway) of a David Byrne...

the d# a# e chord held since 2013 will change today to g# e. The next chord change is February 5, 2022. The piece will end in 620 years on Sep 5, 2640 https://www.aslsp.org/de/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_Slow_as_Possible

Hi, Some years ago I saw a youtube video in which a song was made using other youtube videos with people playing a single instrument or people singing. They just mixed the videos together to make a new song.It was awesome! I cannot find it, anyone knows?

I live in a complicated community. People will have parties lasting all the night in the weekend. Ocasionally some neighbours will complain and call the police. However people are usually too afraid of doing anything fearing retaliation. (Fortunately during this pandemic authorities are not...

I am a high school science teacher working on arts integration for thirty years in schools where many students have academic skills below grade level. I am looking for feedback.

An interesting article from the Physics Archive Blog:

I make marimbas, and I have invented a few variations (www.marimbaaustralia.com) I am interested in how sound moves through the wooden bars - in particular the effect that temperature has and how to compensate during tuning on different temperature days. I have almost no algebraic knowledge...

Recently I read a quote/statement by a younger (20's) male member of a modern band: apprx: All the good music has already been created,played,copied, completed... I do not think he was referring to classical but I am assuming just about everything else: pop, blues ,jazz, motown, country...

Hi people, So I've been digging into music theory and want to understand the basic reasons for how it is constructed. I've come across a particular relationship but I can't understand the reason it exists. A quick musical lesson: Imagine you've got a pure musical note: let's say C. From a low...

Hi there, I am a guitarist and have recently decided to learn the piano as a tool for learning music theory. In digging into music theory I've come into wanting to understand it from the very physics of sound upwards. You'll probably find me on forums discussing sounds theory mostly! I live in...

Seems gravity waves are longitudinal waves, similar to sound waves as it is produced by the vibrations of spacetime? So in theory, if we can produce a powerful enough gravity wave, can we hear it? G-waves are usually produced by merging binary neutron stars or black holes. These celestial...

Music and the crafting and playing of musical instruments are among the earliest manifestations of science and technology in human culture not directly related to survival. Early drums used for communication also provided rhythm for dance and song. Simple reed flutes and pipes, bone whistles...

I've been wondering this for a while. It's usually noisy in my day to day environment so I usually play music in my earphones to help me concentrate, sometimes for hours. Would there be any negative effects to this besides loss of hearing? I feel as if music may overstimulate the brain though I...

Hello, When I attend art course in high school, on (Western) Music Theory subject, there are a lot of terms in Italian, especially on tempo (largo, adagio, moderato, allegro), dynamics (piano, pianissimo, forte, fortissimo, crescendo, decrescendo), and curves (legato, portato, staccato). Is it...

Summary: what is the evolutionary benefit of human rhythm capability It seems that most of the human capabilities and senses developed from some feature that had a survival benefit. But the capability to maintain complex rhythms doesn't seem to confer any benefits. For example a 4/4 rhythm...

People, I am really at the bottom of the brain-interphase and have arrived here traveling through the internet utterly bereft how I -finally- arrived here. An amazing space. Attracted to the science fiction end of things. Paradoxically given my inverted brain this is the beginning as I write...

In several places (e.g., page 12 of http://www.cs.williams.edu/~bailey/06le.pdf), I have come across the aperiodic intervals in a one-dimensional Penrose tiling as "musical sequences". I do not see the connection between aperiodicity and music. The history of a fruitless but amusing search: (a)...

Hi I need to find a reliable freeware to copy music CD. I know it's not as simple as before that just copy, I have to rip it. I did it once with BurnAware, but this time when I try to download, it prompted me to download drivers and others, I did not proceed. I just want to find a way to copy...

If you were able to vote for a certain type of music that you dislike, which would it be? This poll is inspired by the fact that I never got back to sleep after being disturbed by yet another obnoxious person playing hip-hop in his car. I am happy to start the voting.

Maybe this is a little too irrelevant even for a general lounge section but: Should musicians be shamed for liking pop music? a lot of my fellow music friends either listen to classical music, or really emo stuff admittedly I listen to classical music quite often myself, and though I'm...

I was sure there were one or two threads on in this forum on “what music are you listening to now?“ or favourite tunes or similar title title that was quite active, sure because I intended to post there when I got round to it. But I can’t find it now. But never mind for : This is the time for...

I was looking for the previous "Best songs ever" thread, but it seems it is gone. So I boldly start a new one... The very talented 21 year old Norwegian singer and songwriter Sigrid:

My question is simply 'are all notes produced in a guitar produced by first harmonics?', but I will clarify what made me ask this question. Now, if you have a wave driver you can make several harmonics in a string by increasing the frequency of the machine. In a guitar string, however, it does...

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/tom-petty-rock-iconoclast-who-led-the-heartbreakers-dead-at-66-w506651 He did some amazing songs. Don't Come Around Here No More (1985) Free Fallin' (1989) Don't Come Around Here No More (Live, 2006)

Hello! I hope I'm in the right place for this questions. In short, I'm a musical instrument builder. I'm looking at placing a piece of wood above a closed resonator box. The box (also made out of wood) will have a hole in the top that is centered under the piece of wood. I know the material that...

What's everyone's favorite band(s) around here? I recently got into hard rock and similar genres, and became a big Led Zeppelin fan. Besides them, I listen to a lot of Pink Floyd, AC/DC, Styx, and Def Leppard. All in all, though, LZ is my favorite band and my favorite song would have to be...

Yes, this is kind of a weird question to make, but I haven't found anyone discussing it so I decided to ask it myself. The question: Is it possible to change the pitch of a voice up two tones (for example), in order to create a harmonizer that has no electronics involved? The idea and where it...

So I am just working with a synth and I am having it create a single sine wave. I am then looking at the output on a db vs frequency graph and I would expect the db to only be reading at the frequency of that sine wave, but there are readings from 20 Hz all the way to 2k Hz sometimes(althought...

out-freakin-standing !

Last month, I graduated from college with a music degree...a musical theatre degree, to be specific. (Yeah yeah, I know.) I am already itching to learn more, and wanted to focus on physics, which I've been very interested in since high school. I thought about switching majors in college, but...

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Homework Statement A stereo amplifier is rated at 130W output at 1150Hz. The power output drops by 10.0dB at 15.3kHz. What is the power output in watts at 15.3kHz? Homework Equations R=I/Io Io = 10^-12 w/m2 bel = log(r) The Attempt at a Solution I have no idea where to start

Homework Statement The A string on a violin has a fundamental frequency of 440Hz. The length of the vibrating portion is 32.4cm and has a mass of 0.340g. Under what tension must the string be placed? Homework Equations V = Fλ Vs = √t/μ The Attempt at a Solution I plugged in my info to...

How can game sounds tracks be produced? How can they found singer and lyrics for the games. How can the song and the music be in harmony with the game? I am also wondering about the lyrics and the singer of this game soundtrack. Thank you.

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Homework Statement I have a mass of 100 g and I want to make it oscillate with a period of 10 Hz. What spring stiffness do I need? Homework Equations f = 1/2π√s/m The Attempt at a Solution I don't know how to find the stiffness to plug into the equation.

Homework Statement Suppose a string is 0.50 m long, it has a mass per unit length of 1.2 g/m, and it is under a tension of 52 N. What is the frequency of the second mode of this string? Express your answer in the SI unit for frequency? Homework Equations f = Vs/2L Vs = sqrt (F/μ) The Attempt...

Homework Statement This is a homely. We were instructed to make a monochord and find and mark C5, G4, F4, E4, D4 & C4 by multiplying our starting length with the length rations (C5 = 1/2, G4 = 2/3, F4 = 3/4, E4 = 4/5, D4 = 8/9, C4 = 1) Then we used "Ravenlite" the application to measure the...

Homework Statement Suppose a harp string is tuned to middle C (C4) and is 0.56m long. If I want the tension to be 193.5 N, what mass per unit length do I need the harp string to be? Calculate your answer in kg.m Homework Equations Vs = sqrt(T/μ) V = fλ The Attempt at a Solution Having a very...

I have project code using MatLab and so far I am having difficulties of understanding what it is asking for. May anyone explain for me please. The file fugue.mat It contains numerical data that encode about 30-seconds worth of Johann Sebastian Bach's Fugue #2 for the Well-Tempered Clavier. You...

Hello all, First of all, I am aware that dissonance and consonance between pitches also depend to an extent by culture and musical origin but there also seems to be some degree of objective perception among people that can be explained scientifically. Also, I'm very new to this so I could be...

Horsehair is a string of tiny bead-shaped growths -- from what I have read. Even that slides over strings until rosin allows the "beads" to grab temporarily. But if one bead pulls and releases the string, wouldn't the other strings in the horsehair "hank" dampen that sound? It obviously doesn't...

I want to make an app, but I have no idea whether it can use the shuffle or the loop symbols. Are they copyrighted? Thanks in advance

Python is the only programming language I know, and I know there is a huge library of MIDI music out there. I want to play around with machine learning and algorithmic composition to see what I can produce. So, what books should I read to be able to do this? What I am looking for is: Books to...

I have a question about 'beats' between two sound waves of slightly different frequencies. Basically, I think I understand everything on this page (and have read a few textbooks on this): http://www.animations.physics.unsw.edu.au/jw/beats.htm . And in practice, I work with this concept all the...

please delete if not physicsy enough for the PF. I have always wondered why music sounds musical. there is general agreement through the music charts that a wide range people all agree on what a good song is evidently. generalising above that, nearly everyone agrees regardless of the...