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Name: Harmonic Series I: Timbre and Octaves
ID: m13682
Language: English (en)
Summary: Musical basics, like octaves and the timbre of a note, come from the harmonic series.
Subject: Arts
Keywords: fundamental, harmonics, harmonic series, music theory, octaves, overtones, timbre
License: Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 3.0
Authors: Catherine Schmidt-Jones (caschmidtjones@gmail.com)
Copyright Holders: Catherine Schmidt-Jones (caschmidtjones@gmail.com)
Maintainers: Catherine Schmidt-Jones (caschmidtjones@gmail.com)
Latest version: 1.9 (history)
First publication date: May 17, 2006 11:33 am -0500
Last revision to module: Oct 1, 2011 8:13 pm -0500

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Version History

Version: 1.10 Jan 18, 2013 6:30 pm -0600 by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
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Version: 1.9 Oct 1, 2011 8:13 pm -0500 by Catherine Schmidt-Jones Currently viewing this version.
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Version: 1.8 Mar 11, 2011 9:48 pm -0600 by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
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Version: 1.7 Apr 13, 2010 6:02 pm -0500 by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
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Version: 1.6 Dec 16, 2009 8:08 pm -0600 by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
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Added Google analytics code
Version: 1.5 Oct 3, 2007 12:29 pm -0500 by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
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Version: 1.4 Mar 9, 2007 2:53 pm -0600 by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
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Version: 1.3 Sep 25, 2006 4:31 pm -0500 by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
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added several audio examples
Version: 1.2 Aug 24, 2006 4:17 pm -0500 by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
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Fixed some typos and broken links; switched some links from m10866 to m13246 (in the same course).
Version: 1.1 Jul 3, 2006 3:50 pm -0500 by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
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This is the first half of a broken-up version of m11118.

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