By Murray Campbell, Joël Gilbert, Arnold Myers

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This book provides an in-depth account of the fascinating but far from simple actions and processes that take place when a brass instrument is played. Written by three leading researchers in brass instrument acoustics who are also experienced brass players, it draws together the many recent advances in our understanding of the subtly interrelated factors shaping the musician's control of the instrument's sound.

The reader is introduced to models of sound generation, propagation and radiation.

In particular, the current understanding of the behaviour of the player's lips, the modes of vibration of the air column inside the instrument, and the radiation of sound from a brass instrument bell are explained.

The functions of the mouthpiece and of mutes are discussed. Spectral enrichment arising from nonlinear propagation of the internal sound wave in loud playing is shown to be an important influence on the timbre of many types of brass instrument. The characteristics of brass instruments in contemporary use (including cornets, trumpets, french horns, trombones and tubas) are identified, and related to those of the great variety of instruments at earlier stages in the evolution of the brass family.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08TGW6QMT
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Springer; 1st ed. 2021 edition (January 19, 2021)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 19, 2021
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 16031 KB
Print length ‏ : ‎ 820 pages