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(Music for engineering students: Sound synthesis of jazz theme)

The production of sound by acoustic musical instruments is caused by the vibration of a resonant structure that can be described by signal corresponding to the temporal evolution of the vibration associated with the sound pressure. The fact that the sound can be characterized by a set of signals, suggests that a device can generate sound and therefore imitate sounds of acoustic instruments. Such device is called a synthesizer, its main component in sound production is an oscillator. This work presents the synthesis of a classic theme of West Coast Jazz that has as peculiarity an odd metric. All the notes were identified in the score and synthesized on computer.

oscillations; waves; sound synthesis; music


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