Musical tradition is at times a rather odd element of this popular art. One of those traditions that still holds true for today is that of using Italian terms to instruct a performer in notated scores ...

The influence of W.A. Mozart across all areas of culture has been colossal, from the Baby Mozart Project through to contemporary song. You can hardly pass through a day without encountering the music ...

Estimate sound pressure level at a listener position, solve the distance for a target level, and account for speaker count, power change, and room adjustment.

Army of Me was released in 1995 on Björk’s second studio album, Post. The song opens with the repeated bass line in the Locrian mode. Although the root note is somewhat ambiguous, it will be revealed ...

Convert peak watts, peak voltage, or peak current into RMS values for audio signals, bench tests, and waveform checks using the correct crest factor.

Estimate coverage diameter, speaker quantity, row spacing, and edge offsets from room dimensions, ceiling height, listener height, and speaker dispersion angle.

With the distance of one hundred and ten years between us now and the premiere of Stravinsky’s ballet The Rite of Spring, it can be difficult to understand what the fuss was all about. Several things ...

The tambourine is probably one of the easiest and most fun musical instruments to play anywhere in the world. If you have any rhythm at all, and sometimes even if you don’t, you, too, can play a ...

French composer Claude Debussy did not align himself with the movement that became known as Impressionism. Understandably, Debussy resisted this classification as with it could come restrictions, ...

The notation for swing rhythm is an approximation but as close as it can be without requiring immensely complex and cumbersome sub-divisions of note values. The result of the swing is a sense of ...

Size speaker power, coverage, and speaker count for venues, then estimate the far-row SPL for speech, music, or live bands.

Size the rear chamber, front chamber, and port so your bandpass build fits the driver, the tuning target, and the cabinet footprint. Bandpass results are based on net chamber volumes after subtracting ...