Following are selected resources in the UArts Music
Library on the
physical properties of musical sound, room acoustics, and the human
perception of acoustical phenomena (psychoacoustics). The list suggests
the variety of materials available, but is in no sense comprehensive. Click here for printable PDF version.
PIONEERING
WORKS || PHYSICS
OF MUSIC || ROOM
ACOUSTICS || PSYCHOACOUSTICS
PIONEERING WORKS
Helmholtz, Hermann. On the sensations of tone.
[1877] Trans. Alexander Ellis. Reprint ed. New York: Dover
Publications, 1954
ML3820 .H479O5 1954
von Bekesy, Georg. Experiments in hearing.
[1924-47] Trans. E.G. Wever. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1960
REF ML3830 .V65 1960
Wood, A.B. A textbook of sound. [1930] Reprint
ed. London: G. Bell & Sons, 1960
ML3805 .W873T2
PHYSICS OF MUSIC
Benade, Arthur. Fundamentals of musical acoustics.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1976
ML3805 .B456F8
Berg, Richard. The Physics of Sound. 3rd ed.
Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2005
ML3805. B474 2005
Everist, F. Alton. The master handbook of acoustics.
4th ed. New York: McGraw Hill, 2001
ML3805 .E847 2001
Fletcher, Neville, and Thomas Rossing. The physics
of musical instruments. 2nd ed. New York: Springer, 2000
ML3805 .F54P4 2000
Sethares, William A. Tuning, Timbre, Spectrum,
Scale. 2nd ed. London: Springer, 2005
ML3809 .S485 2005
Vogel, Martin. On the relations of tone. Trans.
Vincent Kisselbach. Bonn: Verlag für Musikwissenschaft, 1993
ML3807 .V7O62 1993
ROOM ACOUSTICS
Beranek, Leo. Concert halls and opera houses:
music, acoustics, and architecture. 2nd ed. New York: Springer, 2004
REF ML3849 .B482C6 2004
Forsyth, Michael. Buildings for music: the
architect, the musician, and the listener from the seventeenth century
to the present day. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1985
ML3849 .F67B9 1985
Treib, Marc, and Richard Felciano. Space calculated
in seconds: the Philips Pavilion, Le Corbusier, Edgard Varèse.
Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1996
ML3849 .T74S6 1996
PSYCHOACOUSTICS
Bregman, Albert. Auditory scene analysis: the
perceptual organization of sound. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1990
ML3830 .B74 1990
Handel, Stephen. Listening: an introduction to the
perception of auditory events. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1989
ML3830 .H26L5 1989
Howard, David, and James Angus. Acoustics and
psychoacoustics. 2nd ed. Oxford: Focal Press, 2001
ML3805 .H683 2001
Roederer, Juan G. Introduction to the Physics and
Psychophysics of Music. 2nd ed. New York: Springer Verlag, 1979
ML3805 .R712I5 1979
Temperley, David. The cognition of basic musical
structures. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2001
ML3838 .T466 2001
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