The physics of music
ABCRobyn Williams: And so the ABC has turned 90. John Hopkins: The actual qualities that one is looking for of course are beautiful sound, good communication on the stage, that's a very important thing, particularly with playing intricate modern music because without that you've got really an uphill battle because players tend not to believe that they see and think of the sound around. It's the effect you hear when you sound together two frequencies which are very close to one another, which we call beats, Young wondered whether, if light were a wave, he might detect something similar. In one of the halls most highly rated in Beranek's study was the Tanglewood Music Shed in Lenox, Massachusetts… Ian Johnston: The what? Clearly, of all the properties of sound waves that I've talked about, the one that must be most important for music is reverberation time.
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The physics of music
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