Sound for music technology: An introduction
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Discover the impact of music technology on your life with this free course on sound for music technology. Learn the basics of sound creation, travel, and more. Enhance your understanding of emboldened terms and grasp the concept of pressure waves and oscillating sources. Gain insights into amplitude, frequency, period, and wavelength calculations. Start your journey into music technology today!
Whether you’re a professional musician, play music with your friends on the weekends or just like to listen to CDs, music technology affects your life. In this free course, Sound for music technology: An introduction, you will learn some of the basics of music technology, starting with what sound is, how it is created and how it travels.
Course learning outcomes
After studying this course, you should be able to:
Explain correctly the meaning of the emboldened terms in the main text and use them correctly in context
Describe simply what a pressure wave is and give a simple explanation of sound in terms of a travelling pressure wave
Explain ‘cycle’ in terms of an oscillating source and the pressure wave it produces
Relate amplitude (including peak-to-peak and r.m.s.), frequency, period and wavelength to a sinusoidal waveform
Calculate the wavelength of a pressure wave from a graph of pressure against distance
