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Much has been added to our scientific knowledge of musical sound, since Helmholtz published his great work Tonempfindungen in 1862. The new knowledge has been often and well described, but mostly by scientists writing for scientists in the technical language of science.
In the present book I have tried to describe the main outlines of such parts of science, both old and new, as are specially related to the questions and problems of music, assuming no previous knowledge either of science or of mathematics on the part of the reader. My aim has been to convey precise information in a simple non-technical way, and I hope the subject-matter I have selected may interest the amateur, as well as the serious student, of music.
I need hardly say that I am indebted to many friends and books. A considerable fraction of my book is merely Helmholtz modernised and rewritten in simple language. Another considerable fraction is drawn from the wealth of material provided in the notes added to Helmholtz's book by his English translator, A. J. Ellis. On the less technical side, I have borrowed largely from Dayton C. Miller's book The Science of Musical Sounds (The Macmillan Company, 1934), and am especially indebted to the author for permission to reproduce eleven excellent photographs of sound-curves.
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