How Does Any of this Relate to Music?????
Okay, so I just spent the last three pages expressing fluid, energy, and math properties of how sound is put through air. But this site is dedicated to the phyiscs of MUSIC!!! Simply, none of hte attributes of sound, as I have described them in the other three pages in terms of physics, are not in any way musical. Music and physics really only have one point of connection, that music is made by manipulating the mechanics of air oscillations--how the signals are emmitted by the instruments and recieved by the listiners. Music itself, however, is made by how the listiner interprets or experiences those signals.
As stated in Levarie and Levy's, Tone, A study in Musical Acoustics, "Music is not 'something that happens in the air.' It is something that happens in the soul."