For any four chapters of the book (could be an appendix), do the following:
1. Write a question that you either know the answer to (or that you can find the answer to), and answer it.
2. Write a question that you could not find (or understand) the answer to.
3. Write a comment on the material -- do you have any thoughts about anything you've read?
This can be subjective; an example would be to find and listen to music by one of the composers mentioned in Chapter 1.
What did you think of it -- was it appealing or appalling ?
J. R. PIERCE TABLE OF CONTENTS
1 Sound, Music, and Computers
2 Periodicity, Pitch, and Waves
3 Sine Waves and Resonance
4 Scales and Beats
5 Consonance and Dissonance
6 Consonance and Dissonance and Harmony
7 Ears to Hear With
8 Power and Loudness
9 Masking
10 Other Phenomena of Hearing
11 Architectural Acoustics
12 Sound Reproduction
13 Musical Instruments, Analysis, and Synthesis
14 Perception, Illusion, and Effect
APPENDICES
A Terminology 123
B Mathematical Notation 225
C Physical Quantities and Units 227
D Mathematics and Waves 228
E Reflection of Waves 234
F Digital Generation of Sound 239
G The MIDI Standard 248
H MAX 252