Ján Haluška:
Seraching harmony (subtitle: Credo of a
mathematician about music and a little bit also about philosophy), Veda - Pulishing house of the Slovak Academy of Sciences,
Bratislava 2006, pp. 295, ISBN 80-224-0918-9, ca 120 color illustrations, 21
tables
1.2 Excluding
of tone system from nature . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
1.3 Reverse direction:
from idea to tone system . . . . . . . .
. . . 24
1.4 Music is a
relation of one tone to other tones . . . . . . . . . 27
1.5 Excellence of
Tone systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
1.6 What about
any definition of Tone system? . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
1.7 Tone system
theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
2.1 Tools and
natural human abilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
2.2 Invention .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
2.3 About
problems of classification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
2.4 Material a shapes
of instruments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
2.5 Aulos and
lyra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
3.2 Division of
string . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
3.3 Table of Pythagoras
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
4.2 Resonance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . 86
4.3 Sequences
of harmonics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
5.1 Pitch . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
5.2 Loudness .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
5.3 Timbre . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
5.4 Interference
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
6.2 Psychological
research. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . 116
6.3 Acoustical
measurements of music halls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
7.2 Soprano,
alt, tenor, bas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
7.3 Functioning
of glottis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
7.4 Tone timbre
of human voice and its relation to language . . . . . . . . . 150
7.5 Some
aesthetical aspects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
8.1.1 The
complex production of tone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
8.1.2 Mersenn Laws . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . 156
8.1.3 Fiddle and
loudness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
8.1.4 Masters of Cremona.Timbre depends on … . . . .
160
8.2 Key string instruments . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . 163
8.2.1 Hammer,
tangenta and plectrum . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
8.2.2 Fixed
tuning is typical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
8.2.3 Illusion
of clavier crescendo, terraced dynamics
. . 168
8.2.4 Using of
sympathetic vibrations . . . . . . . . . . . 169
8.2.5 Any
clavier style? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
9.1.1 Relation
to string instruments . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
9.1.2 Labial,
lingual and edge instruments . . . . . . . . . 177
9.1.3 Combination
of harmonics with the length of the air stlpca 181
9.1.4 Elastic resistence of the iwind stream . . . . . 187
9.1.5 Is timbre
a business of instrument produsers? . . . . . . . . 189
9.2.1 The set
of pipes and the double system of ventils . . . . . . . 191
9.2.2 Nomenklature
of pipes with respect to the lenght . . . . . . . . . . . 195
9.2.3 Wind
press, jealuzions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
9.2.4 Mensure,
various types of pipes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
10.2 Noise and
dissonant harmonics . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
10.3 Beet, but
with love, please! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
10.4 Various structure
of harmonics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
11.2 All flows:
consonance and dissonance . . . . . . . . . . . 233
12 Temperament
12.1 Pythagorena
tone system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
12.2 Just
(pure) intonation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
12.3 Equal 12–tone
temperament . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
12.4 1/4–comma
meantone temperament . . . . . . . . . . 265
12.5 Pythagorean versus Equal 12-tone temperament . . . . 268
13.2 Impact of
music to science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
13.3 European
tradition, culture, consciousness . . . . . . . . . . 279