Recommended Text Books

• J. O. Smith, Physical Audio Signal Processing: Digital Waveguide Modeling of Musical Instruments and Audio Effects, August 2004 Draft, Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), Stanford University, Web-published at http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/pasp04/.

• P.M. Morse, Vibration and Sound, AIP for ASA, 1976 (1st ed. 1936, 2nd ed. 1948). $18.50 from AIP:(516)349-7800x481. (Acoustics text with more musical acoustics than is typical nowadays.)

• A. Hirschberg, J. Kergomard, and G. Weinreich, eds., Mechanics of Musical Instruments, Springer-Verlag, 1995. (Advanced musical acoustics text.)

• N. H. Fletcher and T. D. Rossing, The Physics of Musical Instruments, Springer-Verlag, 1993. (Advanced musical acoustics text.)

• A. H. Benade, Fundamentals of Musical Acoustics, New York: Oxford University Press, 1976. Music ML3805.B456. (There is now a Dover version of this classic, highly readable, musical acoustics text.)

• L. Cremer, The Physics of the Violin, MIT Press, 1984. (Advanced musical acoustics treatise summarizing a lifetime of work in the field by a university physicist.)

• L. Kinsler, A.Frey, A. Coppens, and J. Sanders, Fundamentals of Acoustics, Wiley, 1982. (General acoustics text.)

• I. G. Main, Vibrations and Waves in Physics, Cambridge University Press, 1978. (Good basic book on traveling-wave mechanics.)

• J. D. Markel and A. H. Gray, Linear Prediction of Speech, New York: Springer-Verlag, 1976. (Excellent development of lattice and ladder digital filter forms. Advanced.)

• P. M. Morse and K. U. Ingard, Theoretical Acoustics, Princeton University Press, 1968. (Advanced acoustics text.)

• Curtis Roads, Computer Music Tutorial, MIT Press, 1996. (Advanced computer music.)

• Curtis Roads, ed., The Music Machine, MIT Press, 1989. (Anthology of papers in computer music.)