The Science of Brass Instruments

Written by three internationally acknowledged experts in the acoustics and organology of brass instruments who are also experienced brass instrument players. Provides both an accessible introduction to brass instrument science and a review of recent research results and mathematical modeling techniques Represents the first monograph on the science underlying the design and performance of musical instruments of the brass family

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Murray Campbell studied Physics at the University of Edinburgh. He was appointed to the teaching staff there in 1971, and in 1985 he founded the University’s Musical Acoustics Research Group. He is now Professor Emeritus and Senior Professorial Fellow at Edinburgh, where he continues to carry out research on the acoustics of wind instruments. He has co-authored three textbooks on musical acoustics, including The Science of Brass Instruments (Springer, 2021). He is an enthusiastic amateur musician, performing regularly on cornett with the Edinburgh Renaissance Band and on trombone with the Edinburgh Symphony Orchestra. Arnold Myers is Senior Research Fellow at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and Professor Emeritus of the University of Edinburgh. He read Physics at St Andrews University and received a doctorate from Edinburgh University for investigating acoustically-based techniques in the taxonomy of brass instruments. He was an editor of the *Cambridge Encyclopedia of Brass Instruments (2018) contributing 86 of its articles, and one of three authors of *The Science of Brass Instruments (Springer, 2021). He was formerly Director of Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments; he currently researches at the interface of acoustics and the history of brass instruments. Joël Gilbert read Physics and Acoustics at the ENS of Fontenay aux Roses and at Le Mans University. He received a doctorate from Le Mans University for investigating acoustics of reed musical instruments. He was Directeur de Recherche CNRS in the Acoustic Laboratory of Le Mans University until his untimely death in May 2022. Joël was not only an inspired researcher in acoustics but also an excellent and dedicated trombonist. He combined these twin passions in his work on the physics of brass instruments and was responsible for several important advances in this field. He was a co-author of *The Science of Brass Instruments (Springer, 2021).

Inhalt
Part I The Musician's Experience and The Scientific Perspective.- How Musicians Create, Perceive and Use the Sounds of Brass Instruments.- The Scientist's Perspective on Brass Instrument Behaviour.- Part II Acoustical Modelling of Brass Wind Instruments.- Buzzing Lips: The Sound Generating Mechanism in Brass Instruments.- After the Lips: Internal Propagation and Sound Radiation.- Part III Historical Evolution and Playing Properties.- Historical Evolution and Taxonomy of Brass Instrument Families.- Evaluating the Playing Properties of Brass Instruments.