Most Recommended Books

• N. H. Fletcher and T. D. Rossing, The Physics of Musical Instruments, Springer-Verlag, 1998 (2nd ed.)-- an excellent advanced musical acoustics text. Note that Prof. Rossing is at CCRMA this year teaching introductory musical acoustics (Music 150).

• Applications of Digital Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics, edited by Mark Kahrs and Karlheinz Brandenburg, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998--the ``Mohonk book,'' an anthology of papers in signal processing applied to audio and music.

• P.M. Morse, Vibration and Sound, AIP for ASA, 1976 (1st ed. 1936, 2nd ed. 1948). An old classic. This inexpensive book can be ordered from The Acoustical Society of America. See http://asa.aip.org/publications.html.