This is a physical world of vibration and our auditory apparatus and mind helps in making the world of consciously heard music that separates different instruments and tones, identifies pleasantness and unpleasantness in music, establishes sensations of volume, acknowledges some vibrations but not others, and adds tones to fill out the sound spectrum.
Musical acoustics as well as Psychology of Music is a vast area of theory and research and is collectively known as the field of music cognition. Growing number of researches with varying background are getting involved throughout the world to the goal of understanding music cognition and the emotional basis of music. All music students need to build the foundation, the platform for getting into the new concepts.
This book is a compilation of existing theories and basics of Musical Acoustics as well as Psychology of Music. The book though has been directed primarily to the music students, it should be liked by all musicians and music lovers to expand their musical horizons.
The author was a student of Vis Bharatı, Santiniketan, from junior school level to M.Sc. She passed the Higher Secondary Exam., standing First in order of merit. In B. Sc. [Honours) and M.Sc. in Physics her position was First in the First Division. All her teachers were impressed by her high quality of mind and steady commitment to academic pursuits. She was awarded the teaching assistantship and later research assistantship in physics at Brown University, USA, and awarded Masters of Science degree. She executed research work on solar cell at Brown University with distinction. She pursued research on "Studies on lattice imperfection in deformed metals and alloys by X-Ray diffraction" at RE College, Durgapur and awarded Ph.D. from the University of Burdwan.
Five papers in Physics were published in International Journals like Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Japan; Metallurgical and Materials Transactions, USA.
Being daughter of Professor Nemai Chand Bural, a renowned Dhrupad singer, ex-Principal of Sangit Bhavana, Visva-Bharati, and ex-Dean, faculty of fine arts, Rabindra Bharati Univ., she is also an accomplished musician and is very reliable in her assignments.
She was a popular physics lecturer at Bidhan Chandra Institution, in Durgapur, presently retired. She was also given the responsibility of taking classes on Musical Acoustics and Psychology of Music at DDE, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, as a guest lecturer.
All students of music are supposed to have a basic knowledge about scientific analysis of different musical phenomena. Rapidly growing field of music cognition and exploring psychological processes involving imaging, composing and performing music need a proper foundation. This book will provide readers with a rich understanding of the central theories in the field, allowing them to pursue their interests through more focused readings.
Writing this book was initiated by the inspiration of students, who are very much in need of a proper introductory book, in English.
When I began the process I had to appreciate the challenge of summarizing such a vast area of study, suitable for a college student of music, without too much extensive explanations. The organization of the book was influenced by my experiences of teaching the courses, the approach of which was continuously refined over time, coinciding with any evolving views on the discipline. This book begins with proper introduction and motivation for broader questions that tend to capture the imagination and draw people towards the field.
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