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Books from the display
The following are books in the display and can be checked out. Click on the link to go to the catalog for more information about the book.
Bonus Ebooks
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- Absolute Beginner's Guide to iPod and iTunes (ebook)
- Acoustics and the performance of music: manual for acousticians, audio engineers, musicians, architects and musical instruments makers (ebook)
- Analysis, synthesis, and perception of musical sounds: the sound of music (ebook)
- The art of artificial evolution: a handbook on evolutionary art and music? (ebook)
- The Complete Home Music Recording Starter Kit (ebook)
- Perception-based data processing in acoustics: applications to music information retrieval and psychophysiology of hearing (ebook)
- Computational Mechanics of the Classical Guitar (ebook)
- Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval: International Symposium, CMMR 2003, Montpellier, France, May 26-27, 2003. Revised Papers (ebook)
- Computer music modeling and retrieval: Second International Symposium, CMMR 2004, Esbjerg, Denmark, May 26-29, 2004: revised papers (ebook)
- Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval: Third International Symposium, CMMR 2005, Pisa, Italy, September 26-28, 2005. Revised Papers (ebook)
- Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval. Sense of Sounds: 4th International Symposium, CMMR 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 27-31, 2007. Revised Papers (ebook)
- Concise Oxford dictionary of music (ebook)
- Creativity and Innovation in the Music Industry (ebook)
- Digital audio essentials (ebook)
- Dynamic media: music, video, animation, and the web in Adobe PDF (ebook)
- Musical Instruments: History, Technology, and Performance of Instruments of Western Music (ebook)
- The recording engineer's handbook (ebook)
- Evolutionary computer music (ebook)
- Formulas of acoustics (ebook)
- From Edison to MP3: a struggle for the future of the music recording industry (ebook)
- A General History of the Science and Practice of Music (ebook)
- Handbook of Signal Processing in Acoustics (ebook)
- Laptop Music Power!: The Comprehensive Guide (ebook)
- MacAddict guide to making music with GarageBand (ebook)
- Music, cognition, and computerized sound: an introduction to psychoacoustics (ebook)
- Musical Acoustics: Or, the Phenomena of Sound as Connected with Music (ebook)
- A pipeline for the creation, compression, and display of streamable 3D motion capture based skeletal animation data (ebook)
- The science and applications of acoustics (ebook)
- Signal Processing Methods for Music Transcription (ebook)
- Speech acoustics and phonetics (ebook)
- Springer Handbook of Acoustics (ebook)
- Take Control of Making Music with GarageBand '08 (ebook)
- Tonal pitch space (ebook)
- Ways of Listening: An Ecological Approach to the Perception of Musical Meaning (ebook)
Web Sites/Pages
- NAXOS Music Library
- The most comprehensive collection of classical music available online. It includes the complete Naxos, Marco Polo and Dacapo catalogues of over 85,000 tracks, including Classical music, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music. We have 10 simultaneous users capacity.
- NAXOS Music Library Jazz
- NAXOS Music Library Jazz contains over 23,000 tracks from Fantasy Records of jazz and rhythm and blues. Over 1800 albums and over 500 artists are represented in the database. 10 concurrent users
- The Science of Music: Exploratorium's Accidental Scientist
- MusicNovatory: The Science of Music
- Music Science and the Science of Music
- Physics, Mathematics, and technology of Music
- Mathematics of Music
- The Mathematics of Music | The Music of Mathematics
- Music & Math: The Mathematics of Music Notation
- Math in Music
- The Physics of Music and Musical Instruments
- Physics of Music - Notes
- UIUC Physics 199POM: Physics of Music - Useful/Neat Links Page:
- Mathematics and Music
- The Correlation Between Music and Math: A Neurobiology Perspective
- Acoustics for Music
- The Biology of Music
- Rules for music wired into the brain: Researchers explore the biology of music
- Recording Technology History
- OSU Department of Dance Research Gallery
- LabanReader
- LabanWriter
- Dancing through theoretical physics
- Links to resources and research help in music and dance
- Link to dance videos in OSU's Music/Dance collection
- Synchronous Objects
- Synchronous Objects media release
- The Legacy of Merce Cunningham [NY Times video]
- Drums downtown VIII - Elements - Inside Look
- Armitage Gone! Dance
- Armitage Gone! Dance: Three theories
- danceCODES
- Miro Dance Theatre: Principles of uncertainty
- Miro Dance Theatre: Spooky Action
- Do the math dance
- Streb lab for action mechanics
- Armitage Gone! Dance: Connaisseurs of Chaos
- Armitage Gone! Dance: Drastic Classicism
- Merce Cunningham Dance Company
- An excerpt of Charles Atlas's film A Lifetime of Dance
- Ctrl+Shift+: A Performance Unlike Any Other
Items from the display cabinet
Below you will find images of items in the display case and information about them. These are items on which music has been stored over the years plus a metronome.
| Item | Image | Description | More Information |
|---|---|---|---|
| Phonograph Cylinder |  |
Year Invented: 1877 Materials: Tinfoil, wax, celluloid Important Names: Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell |
Cylinder Recordings: A Primer |
| 78 rpm Records |  |
Year Invented: 1898 Materials: shellac, vinyl |
The history of 78 RPM recordings |
| LP (33 1/3 rpm) | 
|
Year Invented: 1948 Material: polyvinyl chloride Important Names: Columbia Records Other: 33 1/3 rpm |
Vinyl Records: LPs and 45s |
| Reel to Reel Tape |  |
Year Invented: 1948 Material: magnetic tape (cellulose acetate, iron oxide) Important Names: Poulsen, Pfleumer, Allgemeine Elektrizitatsgesellschaft, BASF |
The History of Magnetic Recording |
| 8 Track Cassette |  |
Year Invented: 1965 Material: magnetic tape in a plastic cartridge Important Names: Bill Lear Other: Also known as Stereo 8 |
The History of the 8-track Tape |
| Audio Cassette |  |
Year Invented: 1961 Material: magnetic tape in a plastic cartridge Important Names: Philips Also known as: compact cassette |
From Poulsen to Plastic: A Survey of Recordable Magnetic Media |
| Compact Disc |  |
Year Invented: 1980 Material: polycarbonate plastic, metal (usually aluminum, sometimes gold) Important Names: Philips, Sony Also known as: CD |
Molecular Expressions: History of the Compact Disc |
| Metronome |  |
Year patented: 1815 Important names: Johann Maelzel |
Info on Maelzel's patent |
This display the work of:
- Daniel S. Dotson
- Margaret G Atkinson
- Cheryl J. Mason-Middleton
- Patricia A. Peterson
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