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- catalog abstract ""Percussion instruments may be our oldest musical instruments, but only recently have they become the object of extensive scientific study. This book focuses on how percussion instruments vibrate and produce sound and how these sounds are perceived by listeners."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11999426.
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description ""Percussion instruments may be our oldest musical instruments, but only recently have they become the object of extensive scientific study. This book focuses on how percussion instruments vibrate and produce sound and how these sounds are perceived by listeners."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and indexes.".
- catalog description "Percussion family -- Drums with definite pitch -- Interlude: sound and hearing -- Drums with indefinite pitch -- Interlude: vibrations of bars and air columns -- Xylophones and marimbas -- Metallophones -- Interlude: vibrations of plates and shells -- Cymbals, gongs, and plates -- Music from oil drums: Caribbean steelpans -- Church bells and carillon bells -- Handbells, choirchimes, crotals, and cow bells -- easter bells -- Glass musical instruments -- Other percussion instruments.".
- catalog extent "xii, 208 p. :".
- catalog identifier "9810241585 (hbk.)".
- catalog identifier "9810241593 (pbk.)".
- catalog isPartOf "Series in popular science ; vol. 3".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Singapore ; River Edge, N.J. : World Scientific,".
- catalog subject "ML3805 .R76 2000".
- catalog subject "Music Acoustics and physics.".
- catalog subject "Percussion instruments Acoustics.".
- catalog subject "Percussion instruments.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Percussion family -- Drums with definite pitch -- Interlude: sound and hearing -- Drums with indefinite pitch -- Interlude: vibrations of bars and air columns -- Xylophones and marimbas -- Metallophones -- Interlude: vibrations of plates and shells -- Cymbals, gongs, and plates -- Music from oil drums: Caribbean steelpans -- Church bells and carillon bells -- Handbells, choirchimes, crotals, and cow bells -- easter bells -- Glass musical instruments -- Other percussion instruments.".
- catalog title "Science of percussion instruments / Thomas D. Rossing.".
- catalog type "text".