Sound
2000, 1st edition. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #391367
ISBN: 0521572096
Physical description: v, 235 pages : illustrations, music ; 25 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: Introduction / Patricia Kruth and Henry Stobar -- Re-sounding silences / Philip Peek -- The physics of sound / Charles Taylor -- Hearing / Jonathan Ashmore -- Sounds natural : the song of birds / Peter Slater -- The sounds of speech / Peter Ladefoged -- Ancestral voices / Christopher Page -- Shaping sound / Brian Ferneyhough -- Sound worlds / Steven Feld -- Audio-vision and sound / Michel Chion. Subjects: Music, Music History, Sound, Audio, Silence, Sound Studies, Human Hearing.
Price: €21.95