Musical Acoustics Sessions at the Fall 2009 ASA Meeting
San Antonio, Texas
26-30 October, 2009
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009, 8:45 AM - 10:00 AM

2aMUa - Acoustics of Free-Reed Instruments I

James Cottingham, Chair

Invited papers:

2aMUa1     8:45    James P. Cottingham, "Blown-closed free reeds with an without pipe resonators"

2aMUa2     9:15    Laurent Millot, "Free reed coupling with either a vocal tract or a rather small pipe"

Contributed paper:

2aMUa3     9:45    Thomas G. Muir, "Acoustical curiosities of an American reed organ"

 

Tuesday, October 27, 2009, 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM

2aMUb -  Measurements on Musical Instruments

Daniel Ludwigsen, Chair

Contributed papers:

2aMUb1    10:30    Randy Worland, "Physics of water crotales"   

2aMUb2    10:45    Daniel Zietlow and Thomas Moore, "The auger shell whistle"

2aMUb3    11:00    Laurent Millot, "Why using complex stimuli for acoustical measurements may be necessary to get physically relevant analysis results"

 

Tuesday, October 27, 2009, 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

2pMUa - Acoustics of Free-Reed Instruments II: Accordion Acoustics

James Cottingham, Chair

Invited papers:

2pMUa1    1:00    Paul A. Wheeler, "The adoption of the accordion and other bellow-blown free-reed instruments in world cultures"

2pMUa2    1:30    John J. Stankus, "Characteristics and construction of the accordion"

Contributed papers:

2pMUa3    2:00    Sarah L. Behrens, Whitney L. Coyle, Nicholas P. Goodweiler, and James P. Cottingham, "Vibrational modes of accordion reeds"

2pMUa4    2:15    Whitney L. Coyle, Sarah L. Behrens, and James P. Cottingham, "Influence of accordion reed chamber geometry on reed vibration and airflow"

Invited paper:

2pMUa5    2:30    Thomas Tonon, "Accordion reeds, cavity resonance, and pitch bend"

 

Tuesday, October 27, 2009, 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM

2pMUb - Demonstration/Concert featuring Accordionist Ruben Coe

James Cottingham, Chair

Accordionist Ruben Coe of Laredo, Texas, will perform and give a demonstration of a pitch bending accordion.

 

Tuesday, October 27, 2009, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

2pMUc - Concert featuring Accordionist Juan Tejeda with the band Conjunto Aztlan

Paul A. Wheeler, Chair

Conjunto Aztlan performs traditional conjunto as well as a variety of other musical styles.

 

Musical Acoustics Technical Committee Meeting

Tuesday, October 27, 7:00-9:30 PM

Paul A. Wheeler, Chair

 

Wednesday, October 28, 2009, 8:30 AM - 11:40 AM

3aMU - Psychoacoustic Response to Musical Instruments

Rolf Bader, Chair

Invited papers:

3aMU1    8:30    James W. Beauchamp, Andrew B. Horner, and Michael D. Hall, "Recent research in musical timbre perception"

3aMU2    8:55    Rolf Bader, "Perception strategies for violin sounds"

3aMU3    9:20    Anne Caclin, Marie-Helene Girard, and Stephen McAdams, "Perception of timbre dimensions: psychophysics and electrophysiology in humans"

3aMU4    9:45    Antoine Shahin, "Development of auditory phase-locked activity for music sounds"

3aMU5   10:25   John M. Hajda, "Psychoacoustics and organology"

3aMU6   10:50   Christoph Reuter, "The role of formant positions and micro-modulations in blending and partial masking of musical instruments"

3aMU7   11:15   Filipa La and Johan Sundberg, "Observations of the singing voice during pregnancy"

 

Thursday, October 29, 2009, 8:30 AM - 11:50 AM

4aMU - Musical Ability and  Other Abilities: Innate and Environmental Influences

Diana Deutsch, Chair

8:30 Chair's Introduction

Invited papers:

4aMU1    8:35    Gottfried Schlaug, "Singing in the Brain: Professional singers, occasional singers, and out-of-tune singers"

4aMU2    9:05    Laurel Trainor, "Effects of musical training on brain development"

4aMU3    9:35    Glenn Schellenberg, "Musical ability and cognitive abilities"

4aMU4   10:20   Harald Goring, "Evidence for a genetic contribution, and a chromosome 4 locus, to musical aptitude"

4aMU5   10:50   Erin Hannon, "The development of domain-specific musical knowledge"

4aMU6   11:20   Diana Deutsch, "The genesis of absolute pitch: Theories and experimental findings"