The Sound Book: The Science of the Sonic Wonders of the World (44 page)

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

pipistrelle

pitch

perceived

playgrounds

pleasantness

Pliny the Elder

Plot, Robert

pneumatic drill

Point Law

Polo, Marco

polysyllabic echo

Pong

Popular Mechanics

pororoca

prefrontal cortex

Presley, Elvis

Prior, David

prisms

propellers

psychology

puffins

pyramids, Mayan

 

qanat

Qiantang River

quetzal bird

 

Radau, Rodolphe

radomes

Raman, C. V.

Rasmuson Theater

Ratcliffe, Eleanor

Rattle, Simon

Rayleigh, Lord

RCA

recording studios

reflections

of clap

of nonporous rocks

rapidity of

in Teufelsberg radome

of whispers

see also
echo(es)

reflectors

undulating

reflexes

Reformation

Regent's Park

Reich, Steve

Remembrance Day

reservoirs

resonance, in small spaces

resonant hum

Resonant Spaces
tour

restaurants

retreat

“reverb,”

reverberation:

architectural acoustics and

balance in

in bathrooms

in concert halls

echo vs.

electronic

music enhanced by

of reservoirs

in sewer

speech made inaudible by

reverberation time:

acoustic absorption and

of Boston Symphony Hall

under bridges

in cathedrals

of caves

of concert halls

of Dan Harpole Cistern

definition of

of Festival Hall

of forests

of Gol Gumbaz

at Hamilton Mausoleum

at Inchindown

physical volume and

refined measurement of

Sabine's equation of

speech and

of Taj Mahal

of Tomba Emmanuelle

at Wormit reservoir

Reznikoff, Iegor

Rhapsody in Blue
(Gershwin)

Richardson, Joseph

Ridgeway

Rio Araguari

rituals

River Clyde

Robin, Brian

robins

Rochdale Canal

rock art

rock gong

rock harmonicon

rocks, reflection of

Rodriguez

Rolland, Rosalind

Roman theaters

romantic music

Rome

rooks

rooms, living vs. dead

rosewood xylophone

Ross, Doctor

Rossini, Gioachino

Ross Sea

Rouffignac Cave

Royal Albert Hall

Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland

Royal Festival Hall

Royal Institute of British Architects

Royal Navy

Royal Northern College of Music

rural places

Ruskin, John

Ryan, Lisa

 

Sabine, Wallace Clement

equation of

St. Andrew's Church

St. Helens, Mount

St. James

St. Louis Union Station

St. Mary-le-Bow Church

St. Matthew Passion

St. Nikolas

St. Pancras

St. Paul's Cathedral

St. Thomas Church

Salford

Salford University

Salter, Linda-Ruth

Salvador, Brazil

Sampson, Captain

Sánchez-Dehesa, José

sand

sand dunes, singing by

sandstone

San Francisco, Calif.

San Francisco Bay Area

Sarah

Saturn V rocket

Sauvageot, Pierre

saxophone

scatter cushions

Schaafsma, Polly

Schafer, Murray

Schaffert, Martin

Schonberg, Harold C.

schoolchildren

schools, open-plan

Science Museum

Scott, Robert Falcon

Scroby Sands

seals

Sefton, Clare

self-hypnosis

Seljalandsfoss

semitones

Sempere, Eusebio

Seneca, Lake

Seneca guns

sensory deprivation

September, terrorist attacks of

Serengeti

Serra, Richard

Severn Estuary

sewers

acoustics of

reverberation in

spiralling noise in

Shackleton, Ernest

Sharp, David

Shazam

Shearer, Ken

Sheffield

shipping noise

shock waves

shrimpoluminescence

Si Applied

Siberia

Sicily

Silbury Hill

silence

in anechoic chambers

in arts

in flotation tank

retreat for

in space

spirituality of

Silent World, The
(Cousteau)

silt

silvereye

Simmons-Duffin, David

Simpsons, The

Singh, Simon

singing, by sand dunes

Singing Fool, The

sirens

Skyscape

Slabbekoorn, Hans

slapback echo

slate

sléndro
scale

smart phones

smell

Smith, Peter

Smithsonian Institution

Smoo Cave

Snake

snapping shrimp

sneakers

snowy tree cricket

social bonding

sodar

soft fascination

sonar

songbirds,
see
birdsong

sonic booms

sonic crystals

SonicWonders.org

sound(s):

annoying

as artistic medium

beautiful

color and

designers of

iconic

interference with

natural,
see
natural sounds

speed of

transportation

unnatural

world records in

sound artwork

sound effects

soundmarks

Soundscape, The
(Schafer)

soundwalks

sound waves

source broadening

Southern Ocean

Southey, Robert

South London

Soviet Union

space, silence of

space telescopes

spacewalk

Spector, Phil

spectrogram

speech

made inaudible by reverberations

reverberation time and

spherical rooms

see also
Mapparium

Spiegelei
(Finer)

Spire of Dublin

spirituality

Sprinkle, Leland W.

spruce trees

Squeaky Beach

Staffa

staircases

“Stairway to Heaven,”

stalactites

Star Ferry

startle response

Star Trek

Star Wars

Statue of Liberty

Stefanova, Dessislava

Stirling Prize

Stockhausen, Karlheinz

stone circles

Stonehenge

Stoppani, George

stress

stridulation

Strokkur

Subterranea Britannica

Süleymaniye Mosque

Sung Dynasty

Sun Records

Superstition Mountains

Suzuki, Akio

Svalbard archipelago

Svartifoss

swallowtails

Symphony Hall (Boston)

Syracuse

 

tadpoles

Taj Mahal

tamarisk

targeted illumination

Tatton Park

tautological echo

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich

Teatro La Fenice

TEDx event

telephones

“Tennessee Waltz,”

terracing, vineyard

Tess of the d'Urbervilles
(Hardy)

Teufelsberg

theaters

Theory of Sound, The
(Rayleigh)

Thomaskirche

Thorpe Marsh Power Station

Through the Ages Magazine

thunder

tidal forces

Tidoni, Davide

tiles

Till, Rupert

Times
(London)

tinnitus

Titan

Titanic

Toccata and Fugue in D Minor (Bach)

Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space

Tomba Emmanuelle

touch

traffic

trains

train stations

tranquillity index

transportation noises

Treasure, Julian

trees, wind in

Trevor-Jones, David

trombone

Tschiffely, Aimé

tunnels

turbulence

Turkey

Turmstrasse

Turrell, James

Twain, Mark

Twilight Prisoner, The
(Marsh)

2001: A Space Odyssey

tympanic membranes

Typhoon jet fighters

 

Ulrich, Roger

ultrasound

Umnova, Olga

Underground Overlays from the Cistern Chapel

Under the Greenwood Tree
(Hardy)

underwater

undulating reflectors

United Kingdom, noise in

United States, noise in

unnatural sounds

urban noise

urban planning

urban settings

 

Vancouver

van der Schoot, Arjen

vases

Venezuela

Venice

Venice Beach, Calif.

Venus

Verne, Jules

Versluis, Michel

vibrancy

vibrations

Victoria, Queen of England

video games

videos, software for distorted soundtracks of

Viennese Music Association

Vigeland, Emanuel

Viipuri Library

Villa Simonetta

vineyard terracing

violins

Virgil

vision:

danger and

underwater

visual:

active vs. passive

dominance of

Vitruvius

Vittala Temple

vocal folds

vocal sac

volcanoes

Vriend, Nathalie

Vyrnwy, Lake

 

Wagner, Richard

Wainwright, Martin

Wales

Waller, Steven

Wallis, James

warbling

Ward, Mel

water

water boatmen

waterfalls

Watson, Chris

Watts, Greg

Wayland's Smithy

Wellington bombers

Westerkamp, Hildegard

western movies

Westminster Chimes

Wetherill, Ewart

whales

whip

whipbirds

whispering arches

whispering dishes

whispering dome, of Capitol

whispering galleries

whispering wall

whispers:

in Cathedral of Girgenti

reflections of

white-crowned sparrows

Whitehaven Beach

Whitehouse, Andrew

white noise

Whitney, Heather

Whitsunday Island

Wilde, Oscar

“William Tell Overture” (Rossini)

wind, in trees

wind chimes

wind instruments

Windows

wine bottles

wineglasses

Wonders of Acoustics
(Radau)

wood pigeons

World War I

World War II

Wormit water reservoir

Wren, Christopher

Wright, Matthew

 

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