Descriptive acoustics of music and speech

A brief background will be given of ‘‘Descriptive Acoustics of Music and Speech,’’ an introductory course taught at Brigham Young University for the past 40 years. Several conceptual and physical models used in the course will be described. Some phenomena observed in music and speech will be explained in terms of the models. Diagrams, sound samples, and video clips will be used to illustrate the phenomena and their explanation.