<description>An introduction to The Sound of Silence</description>

An introduction to The Sound of Silence

The sound of silence introduction

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Transcript -- An introduction to The Sound of Silence

Transcript -- The sound of silence introduction

<description>Understand how a musical note is made up by plotting amplitude against time.</description>

Understand how a musical note is made up by plotting amplitude against time.

Waves and harmonics

<description>Transcript -- Understand how a musical note is made up by plotting amplitude against time.</description>

Transcript -- Understand how a musical note is made up by plotting amplitude against time.

Transcript -- Waves and harmonics

<description>We take a trip to the Anglia polytechnic university of music theory to see if we can recreate the sound of a saxophone</description>

We take a trip to the Anglia polytechnic university of music theory to see if we can recreate the sound of a saxophone

Recreating sounds

Why does each musical instrument have its own unique sound? What exactly distinguishes a guitar from a fiddle? Follow the story as we find out exactly how a musical note is produced and how to create the sound of silence. This material forms part of The Open University course MU120 Open mathematics.

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