The Sound Book: The Science of the Sonic Wonders of the World

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by Trevor Cox


  “Can’t Get Enough of Your Love, Babe”

  “Canvasser’s Tale, The” (Twain)

  Capitol, US

  Carlyle, Angus

  cars

  Castlefield Wharf

  casuarina

  cat

  “Cataract of Lodore, The” (Southey)

  Cathedral of Girgenti

  cathedrals

  reverberation time of

  cat piano

  Catskill Mountains

  caves

  coloration in

  see also specific caves

  Caviezel, Mike

  Cempoala

  centipede

  Central America

  centrum phonocampticum

  cerebrum

  chaffinches

  chalkboard, fingernails on

  chamber music

  champagne flutes

  chancel

  change ringing

  Chanson, Hubert

  Charles River

  Château de Chinon

  Chicago, Ill.

  Chichén Itzá

  chiffchaffs

  chiming

  China

  chirping

  of ice

  Christ the Redeemer statue

  chronic shipping noise

  churches, acoustics of

  Churchill, Chester Lindsay

  Churchill, Winston

  Church of All Saints

  CIA

  cicadas

  CitySpire Center

  clapping

  architectural acoustics and

  in dome

  and echo from stairs

  in echo tube

  reflection of

  clarinet

  clicking

  Clintonville, Wis.

  cloak of inaudibility

  Clonmacnoise

  cochlea

  cockneys

  coffers

  Coit Tower

  Colorado

  coloration

  computer models

  computers

  concert halls

  reverberation in

  conch shells

  Congo rainforest

  conifer forests

  consonance

  Coronation Street

  cortisol

  Costa Rica

  Court of 3 Stars

  Craine, Debra

  Crawford, Frank

  Cremer, Lother

  crickets

  crime, music as deterrent to

  Cromarty Firth

  Crow, Francis

  crowds

  crystals

  Cuban vine

  culvert whistler

  Curtin, Liam

  curved surfaces

  curved walls

  Curzon, Marquess

  Cusack, Peter

  Cutting Edge, The

  Czechoslovakia

  Czerski, Helen

  “Da Doo Ron Ron,”

  Dagois-Bohy, Simon

  Daisy (duck)

  Dan Harpole Cistern

  Darwin, Charles

  Daubenton’s bats

  Dauvois, Michel

  Davies, Bill

  Davison, Charles

  dead room

  decibel, as relative to reference pressure

  Deenen, Charles

  Dempster, Stuart

  Denison, Edmund

  Derryberry, Elizabeth

  Descartes, René

  Dettifoss waterfall

  Devereux, Paul

  devil digging

  Devil’s Mountain

  didgeridoo

  diesel trains

  diffusers

  Dionysius

  dissonance

  distance

  distractions

  Dolce Vita, La

  dolphins

  domes

  of Capitol

  clapping in

  Teufelsberg

  Dominic, Saint

  Donizetti, Gaetano

  dopamine

  Doppler effect

  Dordogne River

  Douady, Stéphane

  Drever, John

  duck calls, echoes from

  Dumont Dunes

  Dunbar, Robin

  Duncan (tour guide)

  Dundee, Scotland

  ear canal

  ear cleaning

  eardrum

  Ear of Dionysius

  ears

  inner

  middle

  muscle contractions in

  sensitive to middle frequencies

  sluggishness of

  earthquakes

  eastern whipbird

  East Germany

  echo(es)

  of bats

  at Brixton Academy

  of Capitol

  by clicking

  of duck calls

  early writers on

  from elliptical ceilings

  in Gol Gumbaz

  heterophonic

  humor of

  monosyllabic

  mysteries of

  polysyllabic

  reverberation vs.

  in Royal Albert Hall

  safety and

  slapback

  on staircases

  tautological

  in tunnels

  Echo Bridge

  echolocation

  in sailing

  echo tube

  El Bramador

  El Castillo

  Electronic Arts

  electronic cars

  Elements of Physics (Arnott)

  elliptical ceilings

  Encylopaedia Britannica

  engineers

  England:

  Lake District of

  most tranquil spot in

  English language

  Eno, Brian

  Epidaurus theater

  Eurasian tectonic plate

  European Union, noise in

  Euston Road

  evergreens

  evolution

  explosions

  Facebook

  Favourite Sound Project

  Fazenda, Bruno

  Fégeant, Olivier

  Fellini, Federico

  Festival of Britain

  fiberglass

  Fieux à Miers

  fighter pilots

  Finer, Jem

  Fingal’s sea cave

  fingernails, on chalkboard

  Finland

  Firth of Tay

  fish

  Florence

  flotation tank

  flutes

  flutter echo

  focal points

  focusing, in Mapparium

  Fogg Museum

  Font-de-Gaume

  forests

  Fort Worden, Wash.

  Fort Worden State Park

  4’33” (Cage)

  foxes

  France

  Francis, Saint

  Frankenstein

  Franklin, Benjamin

  French horn

  French Revolution

  frequency

  and distance of sound

  fundamental

  middle

  reflection speed and

  Fresnel, Augustin-Jean

  Fritz, Thomas

  frogs

  Full Monty, The

  functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanner

  fundamental frequency

  Galbrun, Laurent

  galloping

  gamelan

  Garan, Ron

  gardens

  gas jets

  Gastown steam clock

  Gateshead

  Gedemer, Tim

  geese

  Geissenklösterle, Germany

  Gem River

  Germany

  geysers

  Gibbs, Tony

  giggling

  Glasgow

  Glass, Philip

  glass, turbulence and

  Glastonbury

  Glennie Evelyn

  Gol Gumb
az

  Gormley, Antony

  gossip

  Grand Banks

  Grand Central Terminal

  grand piano

  Grant, Campbell

  gravity

  Great Barrier Reef

  Great Britain

  Great Exhibition of 1851

  Great Fire of London

  Great Gallery

  Great Geysir

  Great Hall

  Great Pitt Echo

  Great Red Spot

  Great Sphinx

  Great Stalacpipe Organ

  great tits

  Great Yarmouth

  Greeks

  Greek theaters

  “Green Ears,”

  Greenwich foot tunnel

  groundwater

  Guácharo Cave

  Guardian

  Guggenheim Museum (Bilbao)

  Guinness Book of World Records

  gulls

  gunshots

  Gustavino, Rafael

  Hallé orchestra

  Halmrast, Tor

  Hama, Syria

  Hamilton Mausoleum

  measurements at

  Handel, George Frideric

  harbor seals

  Hardy, Thomas

  Harmonic Fields

  harmonics

  Harrison, Beatrice

  Hartmann, William

  Harvard University

  Hasenkamp, Wendy

  Haydn, Joseph

  headphones

  hearing:

  as constant

  damage to

  danger and

  evolution of

  range of

  visual dominance and neglect of

  “Heartbreak Hotel,”

  Hebrides

  Hebrides, The (Mendelssohn)

  helium

  Hempton, Gordon

  Henry II, King of England

  Her Blood (Kapoor)

  herons

  herring gulls

  hertz

  Hertz, Heinrich

  heterophonic echo

  Hieroglyphic Canyon

  high heels

  high-tide organ

  Hitchcock, Alfred

  Hockney, David

  Hohokam people

  Hoh Rainforest

  Holderied, Marc

  Hong Kong

  Hong Kong Park

  Hope, Diane

  horses

  Horseshoe Canyon

  Hound of the Baskervilles, The (Doyle)

  House of Representatives, US

  Howells, William Dean

  Hughes, Thomas

  Humboldt, Alexander von

  humming

  Hunt, Fredrick Vinton

  Hunt, Melany

  Hunter, Michael

  Huygens

  Hverir

  hydrogen sulfide

  hydrophones

  Iannace, Gino

  ice

  chirping sound of

  Iceland,

  ice xylophone

  icosidodecahedron

  Imam Mosque

  Importance of Being Earnest, The (Wilde)

  Inchindown

  Indian Hill

  Indian Ocean

  Industrial Revolution

  infrasound

  inner ear

  Innocents Abroad, The (Twain)

  instruments, primitive

  interference

  International Space Station

  Internet videos

  Invergordon

  iPhones

  Iran

  Irish Republican Army (IRA)

  Irish Sea

  Isle of Dogs

  Isungset, Terje

  ivory

  jackhammers

  Jaffe, Chris

  Jahn, Robert

  Japan

  jazz

  Jeita Grotto

  Jerram, Luke

  Jerry Murad’s Harmonicats

  Jian Kang

  Jodrell Bank Observatory

  John (bell ringer)

  Jökulsá á Fjöllum

  Jökulsárlón lagoon

  Jolene (earthquake witness)

  Jolson, Al

  Jones, Arthur Taber

  Jordania, Joseph

  Journal of Civilization

  Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

  Journey to the Centre of the Earth, A (Verne)

  Julius Caesar

  Jupiter

  Juster, Norton

  Kang, Jian

  Kapoor, Anish

  Katharagama

  Katz, Brian

  Katzenklavier

  Kelso Dunes

  Kennedy, John F.

  Keswick Museum and Art Gallery

  Kielder Forest

  Kilpatrick, Allan

  King’s Cross

  King Seongdeok Divine Bell

  Kington, Miles

  Kircher, Athanasius

  Kirklees Valley

  Kish, Daniel

  Knight, Chris

  Königssee, Lake

  kookaburras

  Korea

  Krakatoa

  Kresge Auditorium

  Kubrick, Stanley

  Kukulkan

  Kupgal Hill

  L’Abri du Cap Blanc

  Lake Baikal

  Lake Königssee

  Lake Seneca

  Lake Vyrnwy

  Lancaster, Calif.

  Lancaster bombers

  Lascaux, caves at

  Latin

  Laughing Water Dashes Through, The (Lee)

  Lauterbach, Iris

  Lebanon

  Led Zeppelin

  Leighton, Tim

  Lepage, Auguste

  leprosy

  Leyland cypress

  light:

  interference with

  monochrome

  speed of

  spreading out in prism of

  lightning

  limestone

  Lincoln Center

  lithophone

  living room

  Livingstone, David

  Llandegla Forest

  Llinares, Jaime

  Loch Ness

  Lodore Falls

  London

  Great Fire of

  Greenwich foot tunnel in

  London Underground

  Lovell Telescope

  Lubman, Brenda

  Lubman, David

  Lucretius

  lullabies

  Luna

  Lundmark, Gunnar

  Luray Caverns

  lyrebird

  MacLean, Katherine

  Madagascar moon moth

  Mafa people

  Magicicada cassini

  Magicicada septendecim

  magma

  magpies

  Maitland, Sara

  major seventh

  Manchester

  Manchester Art Gallery

  Manchester Central Library

  Manchester United

  Mandara mountain range

  Manilow, Barry

  Manilow method

  Mapparium

  focusing

  marble

  Marcgravia evenia

  “March of the Swiss Soldiers,”

  Mars

  Marsh, Katherine

  Marshall, Barry

  Mary Baker Eddy Library

  Maryhill monument

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Matter of Time, The (Serra)

  Matthews, Henry

  Mayans

  McCaul, Danny

  McTaggart, Bill

  MediaCityUK

  meditation

  melodies

  Mendelssohn, Fanny

  Mendelssohn, Felix

  Menik Ganga

  Mennill, Daniel

  Mersenne, Marin

  Meseguer, Francisco

  Mexico

  Micronecta scholtzi

  Mid-Atlantic Ridge

  middle C

  middle ear

/>   middle frequencies

  mindfulness

  Mingsha Sand Dunes

  Mingus, Charles

  mistpouffers

  mobile phone ringtones

  Mojave Desert

  Mojave River

  monochrome light

  monosyllabic echo

  Montgomery, Will

  Mont Saint-Michel

  Moore, W. Usborne

  Moray Firth

  mosques:

  Imam

  Süleymaniye

  tiles of

  Moss, Kate

  motherese

  moths

  Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

  mud pools

  mud pots

  Muir, John

  Murphy, Damian

  Musée des Arts et Métiers

  mushrooms

  music

  baroque

  chamber

  as crime deterrent

  enhanced by reverberation

  evolutionary explanations of

  minimalist

  romantic

  silence in

  musical road

  musical scales

  Musurgia Universalis (Kircher)

  National Museum of the American Indian

  National Park Service, US

  National Theatre

  Native Americans

  Natural Resources Defense Council

  natural sounds

  see also specific sounds

  nature

  Nature

  naval sonar

  nave

  Navy, US

  Neolithic burial mound

  Neolithic rock art

  Nettinga, Myron

  neural pathways

  New England Aquarium

  New Scientist

  Newton, Isaac

  Newton Upper Falls, Mass.

  New York, N.Y.

  New York Police Department

  New York Times

  New Zealand

  Niagara

  Niesen

  nightingales

  Night Tourist, The (Marsh)

  Nissan

  noctule bat

  noise complaints

  Norham Castle (ship)

  North American tectonic plate

  North Atlantic

  North Sea

  Northumberland National Park

  Norton, Charles Eliot

  Nova Scotia

  numerical optimization

  nuthatches

  oaks

  oceans

  octave

  oil

  oilbirds

  Old Trafford soccer stadium

  Olympia National Park

  onomatopeia

  open-plan schools

  Orfield Laboratories

  organ

  Órgano (Sempere)

  Organ of Corti (Crow and Prior)

  high-tide

  Origins in Acoustics (Hunt)

  Orontes River

  outdoor concerts

  overtones

  Oyster Bar & Restaurant

  Pacific Ocean

  palatal click

  Panama

  Paris

  Parker, Charlie

  Parkin, Peter

  Parkinson’s disease

  Parliament, British

  Pask, James

  Patrick, Saint

  Patterson, Lee

  Paul (bell ringer)

  “Peg o’ My Heart,”

  pélog scale

  Pennines

  perceived pitch

  periodic cicada

  Perry, Bob

  Peru

  Phantom Tollbooth, The (Juster)

  Philharmonic Hall (New York),

  Phonurgia Nova

  physical volume

  pinball machines

  pine trees

  Pinker, Steven

  pink nose

  Pinter, Harold

 

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