Instrument Families

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Objectives[edit]

  • Student will be able to categorize different instruments into families
  • Student will be able to surmise an unknown or hypothetical instrument's family based on sound or playing mechanism
  • Student will be familiar with how sound waves are propagated by different playing mechanisms and effector systems (including physiological ones)

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Readings[edit]

Tools

Instructor References[edit]

Tools[edit]

Class Activities[edit]

  • Listen to instrument recordings (common and non) and identify based on sound.
  • Compare sound of instrument timbres based on materials.
  • Discuss instrumental wave vibrations.
  • Observe instrument harmonics (on spectrogram/oscilloscope) based on type, material, playing mechanism.
  • Discussion of SH system: compare and contrast various instruments and discuss instruments with ambiguous/multiple categorizations (i.e. voice, loudspeakers).

Assignments[edit]

  • Instrument classification worksheet
  • Create-your-own instrument activity based on assigned material and SH system category

Notes[edit]