What is music?
Description
Whenever the pressure of air is changed rapidly-by the beating of a drum, rattling a stick in a can, plucking a string stretched across a box-the ear-brain system detects the pressure changes as sound, which travels from source to listener as sound waves. This program examines sound waves: why some sounds are musical and others just noise, and the relationship of regularity or irregularity of vibration to the perception of musicality, as well as such nonscientific questions as the cultural content of musical perception.
Runtime
60 min
Series
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Date of Publication
[2005], c1989
Database
Films on Demand
Direct Link
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