PhD Thesis in music acoustics

       

       FROM AIR TO MUSIC

Acoustical, Physiological and Perceptual Aspects of Reed Wind Instrument Playing and Vocal-Ventricular Fold Phonation

by

 Leonardo Fuks

©1998

An ancestral and recurrent dream of humankind is that of flying.
In my ordinary flying dreams,
whenever I inhale, I start levitating in the space;
when I exhale, I immediately return to the firm ground.

Playing a wind instrument may follow the same simple, supernatural rule:
in blowing, one donates life and sound to other beings, and gains the Earth;
in inspiring, one must incorporate spirits and angels.

Contents:

Thesis front cover

Abstract

1.Included papers

2.List of abbreviations and conventions

3.Introduction

4.Previous work

5.Instruments analysed

6.Playing a reed woodwind

7.Basic ideas and methods

8.Summaries and comments on individual papers

9.Music continues; a list of possible future investigations

10.Conclusions

Acknowledgements

Bibliography

Thesis back cover (spectrogram of "oh, Susanah" during overtone singing in VVM phonation- see Paper VI)

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 ©1998 by Leonardo Fuks