Music and Science Seminar materials

By Tuomas Eerola, Durham University, Music Department, 2025.

This repository contains materials for teaching of Music and Science. Links with special icons take you to Colab Notebooks, which contain interactive notebooks that you can use to explore various topics and techniques.

Some of the code is based on Music and Science: A Guide to Empirical Research - online materials

Week 1

• Tutorial on Creating Sounds Using Sines
• Demo of wave probagation in Strings
• Demos of wave probagation in Tubes
• Demo of wave probagation in space ribble tank demo or wave probagation

Week 2

• Spectrum and envelope
• Physical
• Oscillator model

Week 4

• Tutorial on Audio Analysis
• Simple feature extraction - Python

Learning resources about Python, audio and music

• Python for Beginners
• Fundamentals of Music Processing
• Librosa package for music and audio analysis

Last update 24/09/2025 by TE