Music Science and the Science of Music
Music Science at UNSW: scientific research and undergraduate study in music, musical instruments, music performance and music perception. Music Science at UNSW is the collaboration between the Music Acoustics Group in the School of Physics at UNSW with the Empirical Musicology Group in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. The Music Acoustics Group maintains a large web site introducing many aspects of music science.
The Science of Music is also the name of a series of broadcasts made for the ABC. Five of Australia's outstanding musicians took their instruments
and their questions to the laboratory. The result is a series
about music and musical instruments, comprising
structured discussions between musician and scientist, richly
illustrated with examples from the concert stage, the studio
and the laboratory.
- Dene Olding. . . . Strings
- Nigel Westlake. . Woodwinds
- Paul Plunkett . . . Brass
- Colin Piper . . . . Percussion
- Paul Dyer . . . . . Keyboards
- Nigel Westlake. . Composition
Written and presented by Joe Wolfe
The Science of Music was produced as a series of radio broadcasts
for the Australian Broadcasting Commission. Five prominent Australian
musicians and scientist Joe Wolfe of the University of New South
Wales discuss how musical instruments work, what this means
to players and composers, and the nature of music itself. The
series uses recordings, live demonstrations, laboratory demonstrations
and musical examples featuring the Australia
Ensemble, the Australian
Chamber Orchestra, the percussion group Synergy
and the Canberra School of Music Brass Ensemble.
The set of six 55 minute tapes and a booklet of background
material are available as an educational package. Single tapes
are also available separately. You may be able to borrow them
from the AV section of your library. (If not, you could suggest
that the library acquire a set.)
Another educational package about music:
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