Acoustics references

[Richard Zvonar <zvonar@zvonar.com>]

There was some discussion on Sunday about reference materials on 
musical acoustics. Here are some of the books in my personal library:

Acoustics and Psychoacoustics

Backus, J. (1969). The acoustical foundations of music. New York: Norton.

Benade, A. H. (1976). Fundamentals of musical acoustics. London: 
Oxford Univ. Press.

Benade, A. H. (1960). Horns, strings & harmony. New York: Anchor.

Bland, D. R. (1960). Vibrating Strings. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.

Clynes, M., ed. (1982). Music, mind, and brain: The neuropsychology 
of music. New York: Plenum.

Cogan, R. (1984). New images of musical sound. Cambridge: Harvard U. Press.

Helmholtz, H. (1885). On the sensations of tone. New York: Dover.

Howard, D. M. & Angus, J. (1996) Acoustics and psychoacoustics. Oxford: 
Focal.

Mathews, A. F. (1988). Violin acoustics: A new look at the old art.

Miller, D. C. (1934) The science of musical sounds. New York: Macmillan.

Olson, H. F. (1967). Music, physics, and engineering. New York: Dover.

Pierce, J. R. (1983). The science of musical sound. New York: 
Scientific American Books.

Roederer, J. G. (1975). Introduction to the physics and psychophysics 
of music, 2nd ed. New York: Springer.

Seashore, C. E. (1938). The psychology of music. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Swenson ,G. H. (1965)  Principles of modern acoustics. Cambridge: 
Boston Technical Publishers.

Winckel, F. (1967) Music, sound and sensation: A modern exposition. 
New York: Dover.

Listening and Sound Cognition

Bregman, A. S. (1990) Auditory scene analysis. Cambridge: MIT.

Erickson, R. (1975) Sound structure in music. Berkeley: U. of California.

Handel, S. (1991) Listening: An introduction to the perception of 
auditory events. Cambridge: MIT.

Krumhansl, C. L. (1990) Cognitive foundations of musical pitch. New 
York: Oxford.

Meyer, L. B. (1956). Emotion and meaning in music. Chicago: Univ. of 
Chicago Press.

Slawson, W. (1985) Sound Color. Berkeley: U. of California.


And here are some useful URLs:

http://www.tonmeister.ca/main/bibliography/acoustics.html

http://www.show-control.com/docs/thsndbib.html

http://www.zainea.com/Bibliography.htm

http://www.usc.edu/dept/architecture/mbs/315/315bib.html

http://www.acs.psu.edu/users/smithsh/acoustic.html

http://www.rpginc.com/news/biblio.htm

http://www.public.coe.edu/~jcotting/tcmu/muslink.htm

http://www.clis.umd.edu/students/756/756hunt2.html

http://iwk.mdw.ac.at/ma/ma-links.htm

http://ccrma-www.stanford.edu/~jos/tonehole/Bibliography.html

http://www.akin.ru/e_resour.htm

http://mediatheque.ircam.fr/articles/textes/Risset78d/
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