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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/ -- ______________________________________________________________ Richard Zvonar, PhD (818) 788-2202 http://www.zvonar.com http://RZCybernetics.com http://www.cybmotion.com/aliaszone http://www.live365.com/cgi-bin/directory.cgi?autostart=rz