Nov. 27 and 28, the“2012 Musical Acoustics Workshop” co-sponsored by the Acoustical Society of China and IACAS was successfully held in Beijing, which was reunion for the experts from arts and science sectors after last June’s meeting.

The workshop was opened by Professor WANG Xiaomin who is the Deputy Director of Acoustical Society of China and Director of IACAS. Professor MAO Dongxing, the Deputy Director of Acoustical Society of China attended the opening ceremony, hosted by Professor YANG Jun from IACAS.

Professor WANG Xiaomin reviewed the development of our country’s musical acoustics context, introducing that IACAS had established “Timbre researches of typical Chinese and western musical instruments” as one of its important independent deployments and brought musical acoustics subject into line with IACAS’s “One, Three and Five” strategic planning.

Musical acoustics is the branch of acoustics concerned with researching and describing the physics of music about how sounds employed as music work. Examples of areas of research are the function of musical instruments, the human voice (the physics of speech and singing), computer analysis of melody, and in the clinical use of music in music therapy.

After the opening ceremony, experts had academic presentations and seminars, discussing physical and subjective aspects on musical acoustics and musical instruments acoustics parameters, music signal modeling,reform of national musical instruments, computer analysis of melody and other fields. For music education, researchers’ cooperation and music development, they had agreed that music and science should be integrated and China’s strategic framework of musical acoustics is to be constituted. Musical acoustics can promote musical instruments manufacturing, electro-acoustics and other industries growth, which is with great social significance.

Professors from more than twenty organizations, such as Central Conservatory of Music, Peking University and Communication University of China took part in this workshop.

This workshop not only presented the work and results of the latest research in musical acoustics after last June’s Xiangshan science conference, but also provided a clear direction for the development and follow-up work for musical acoustics.