The Arthur H. Benade Archive

WRITINGS ON ACOUSTICS BY ARTHUR H. BENADE

This list is divided into four parts: 1958-69, the 70s (this section), the 80s, and the 90s.

Listed here are the available published and unpublished writings of A. H. Benade. They range from casual, hand-drawn slides to journal articles and books. Letters are not included, except a few that were widely circulated by Benade. (See Benade/correspondence for the complete Benade letter files.)

**	– Unpublished material
+	– Published material with added comments, corrections, and/or additional pages
‡	– Outline, as used here, means an extended outline displayed during a talk, typically informal, multi-page, hand-drawn, and often supplemented by projection of more-formal figures

Writings of the 1970s

1970:

Acoustic criteria and procedures for adjusting tone and response in woodwinds, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 48(1):89 (1970). [abstr.]
Acoustics of Music expanded course notes, a synthesis of handout sheets and assignments plus notes and some homework done by three members of the class (1970). **[75 pp.] This represents the first time the class was given; see also the course notes for the final version in 1986 listing.
On the tone color of wind instruments, Selmer Bandwagon 59:17-21 (1970). [5 pp.]

Reprinted in Musical Acoustics: Selected Reprints, Thomas Rossing, ed., American Association of Physics Teachers, College Park, MD (1976) and in an updated volume published under the same name (1988).

Schematic representation of wind instrument oscillations (with W. E. Worman), J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 49(1):127 (1970). [abstr.] +Benade added a Z to the first equation. +Figs. shown at meeting **[7 pp.]
Some acoustical data on clarinets [1.48 MB, PDF], Case Western Reserve University (February 1970).** [13 pp.]
Tape recorder transposition of standard violin to simulate the highest seven members of C. M. Hutchins' family of true violins (with Edith Roberts), Catgut Acoust. Soc. Newsletter 13:8-10 (May 1970). [3 pp.]

1971:

Notes on the modification of Fred Cohen's clarinets. Details of Benade's first serious resonance-alignment work on a professional's clarinets. Based on 1969/71 data, but not written up until 1985. (1971/1985) **[4 pp.]
Obituary, C. V. Raman, Catgut Acoust. Soc. Newsletter 15:1-2 (May 1971). [2 pp.]
On to kakki (Hadou to choukaku no kiso chishiki), Japanese translation of Horns, Strings and Harmony (1960), Charles E. Tuttle Co., Tokyo (1971). [255 pp.]
On the tone and response of wind instruments from an acoustical standpoint. (July 1971)** [61 pp.]
Sound transmission and sound spectrum relations in the perception of timbre and loudness. Paper read at AAAS meeting, Philadelphia, PA, December 1971.** [10 pp.]

1972:

Brass instrument design and the theory of horns, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 52(1):138 (1972). [abstr.]
Compilation of remarks from a set of instructional musical acoustics tapes, including diagrams of acoustical examples on the tapes (1972). **[30 pp. plus cassettes]
A hasty outline: A nonlinear theory of bow-and-string oscillations, talk given at Catgut Acoustical Society Violin Acoustics Conference, Montclair, NJ (16 November 1972).** [12 pp.] File includes retyped original, also 12 pp.
On irregular tone-hole lattices, fork fingerings, and related matters. Written as an aid to Philip Bate in his revisions of The Oboe and F. G. Rendall's The Clarinet. Privately circulated. [September 1972] **[14 pp.]
On radiation from a fiddle-box as it is influenced by the main air resonance [126 KB, PDF], May, 1972. (May 1972).** [2 pp.]
On the influence of tone-hole design on the playing properties of bassoons. Extract from a letter, Benade to W. Waterhouse (August 1972). [article, letter, 9 figs.] **[23 pp.]
Properties of an air column with open tone holes. Written as an aid to Philip Bate in his revisions of his book, The Oboe, and F. G. Rendall's The Clarinet. Privately circulated. [August 1972] **[11 pp.]
What makes brasses sing? A try-it-yourself essay, Selmer Bandwagon 66:8-13 (1972). [6 pp.]

1973:

Acoustics seminar hand-out sheets (spring 1973). **[23 handwritten pp.]
Characterization of woodwinds by tone hole cut-off frequency, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 54(1):S310-311 (1973). [abstr.] +Paper read at meeting plus 10 figs. **[18 pp.]
Flute headjoint cork position and the damping of high modes, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 54(1):S310 (1973). [abstr.] +Paper read at meeting plus 3 figs. **[7 pp.]
A nonlinear theory of bow-and-string oscillations. Abstract of talk given November 1972 at a Catgut Acoustical Society conference and published in May 1973. Catgut Acoust. Soc. Newsletter 19:7 (1973). [abstr.]
On plane and spherical waves in horns with nonuniform flare: I and II (with Erik J. Jansson). Published in a single volume by the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden. Sections I and II were published separately in Acustica (see 1974 listings). **(1973) [116 pp.].
Physics of brasses, Sci. Am. 229(1):24-35 (July 1973). [13 pp.]

Reprinted in Musical Acoustics: Piano and Wind Instruments, Earle L. Kent, ed., Benchmark Papers in Acoustics, Dowden, Hutchinson, & Ross, Stroudsburg, PA (1977).
Reprinted in Musical Acoustics: Selected Reprints, Thomas Rossing, ed., American Association of Physics Teachers, College Park, MD (1976) and in an updated volume published under the same name (1988).

Quasi-turbulent damping at wind instrument joints and tone holes (with John K. Cuddeback), J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 55(1):457 (1973). [abstr.]
Reed cavity and neck proportions in conical woodwinds (with J. M. Gebler), J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 55(2):S458 (1973). [abstr.] +Paper read at meeting plus 6 figs. **[14 pp.]
Register hole design for cone woodwinds [790 KB, PDF], J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 54(1):S310-311 (1973). [abstr.] +Paper read at meeting plus 5 figs. **[10 pp.]
Transient analysis for wind instrument tones (with T. L. Finch), J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 55(1): 457 (1973). [abstr.]
Trumpet acoustics, a chapter written for a book (never published) edited by E. H. Tarr on the history of the trumpet (1973)** [43 pp.]
- PDF [531 KB]
- DjVu [425 KB]
- HTML (English)
- HTML (French)

1974:

A comment on the acoustical relationship between the Vienna and Conservatory system oboes (1974). Written for Hans Hadamowsky's instruction book on the Vienna oboe. **[1 p.]
Identification of the separate tones heard in a woodwind multiphonic sound as grouped subsets of its spectral components (with L. J. Livingston), J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 55:S49 (1974). [abstr.]
Mechanism of multiphonic tone production in woodwinds, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 55:S49 (1974). [abstr.]
Nonlinear aspects of wind instrument regeneration, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 55:S69 (1974). On the abstract Benade has written (referring to the talk, rather than the abstract), "AHB's 10-year retrospective." [abstr.]
The physics of woodwinds. ‡Outline of talk, Princeton University (7 February 1974). The 11 slides mentioned are no longer with the outline. **[6 pp.]
On plane and spherical waves in horns with nonuniform flare, I: Theory of radiation, resonance frequencies, and mode conversion (with E. V. Jansson), Acustica 31(2):79-98 (1974). [20 pp.]

Reprinted in Musical Acoustics: Piano and Wind Instruments, Earle L. Kent, ed., Benchmark Papers in Acoustics, Dowden, Hutchinson, & Ross, Stroudsburg, PA (1977).

On plane and spherical waves in horns with nonuniform flare, II: Prediction and measurements of resonance frequencies and radiation losses (with E. V. Jansson), Acustica 31(4):185-202 (1974). [18 pp.]

Reprinted in Musical Acoustics: Piano and Wind Instruments, Earle L. Kent, ed., Benchmark Papers in Acoustics, Dowden, Hutchinson, & Ross, Stroudsburg, PA (1977).

On reeds and facings. ‡Outline of talk, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (5 December 1974). **[4 pp.]
Wind instruments. Lecture outlines and handout sheets for weekly seminar series given September-December at the University of Michigan School of Music (1974). **[48 pp.]

1975:

Some musically oriented acoustics demonstrations, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 57:S20 (1975). [abstr.]
The wolf tone on violin family instruments, Catgut Acoust. Soc. Newsletter 24:21-23 (November 1975). [4 pp.]

Reprinted in Research Papers in Violin Acoustics 1975-1993, Carleen Maley Hutchins, ed., Acoustical Society of America (1995), 1:117-120.

1976:

Fundamentals of Musical Acoustics, Oxford University Press, New York (1976). [608 pp.]

Paperback, Dover Publications (1990). This is a corrected republication based on Benade's desk copy, with extensive changes. [608 pp.]

The path from string to ear, Catgut Acoust. Soc. Newsletter 25:5 (May 1976). [abstr.]
Review, Sound Structure in Music, by Robert Erickson, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 60(5):1236 (1976). [1 p.]
Wind instrument final adjustment procedures, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 59:S50-51 (1976). [abstr.]

1977:

Acoustical evolution of wind instruments [5.3 MB, PDF], course notes (1977). Detailed class handout sheets. **[86 pp.]
Analysis of violin resonance measurement techniques: three related papers.

1) On the use of a drive line between driver coil and a fiddle bridge [198 KB, PDF] (26 July 1977). **[3 pp.]
2) On electrodynamic driving of a vibration experiment [359 KB, PDF] (26 July 1977). **[4 pp.]
3) On fiddle string resonances and their excitation [724 KB, PDF] (21 September 1977) **[6 pp.]

The effects of reed resonance on woodwind tone production (with S. C. Thompson), J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 61:S35 (1977). [abstr.]
Fiddle acoustics: The summer of 1977, Catgut Acoust. Soc. Newsletter 28:3-6 (November 1977). [4 pp.]
How to test a good trumpet, The Instrumentalist 31(8):57-58 (1977). [2 pp.]
Musical acoustics today: A scientific crossroads, Plenary Session Lecture, 9th International Congress on Acoustics, Madrid, July 1977. In Proceedings, 9th International Congress on Acoustics, Madrid 4-9 July 1977, pp. 81-91. (1977). [11 pp.]
The room around the instrument, Catgut Acoust. Soc. Newsletter 28:9-10 (November 1977). Summary and extension of a talk presented at the International Symposium on Violin Acoustics, Cambridge England, June 27-July 1, 1977. [2 pp.]
Violin stringing and Leopold Mozart's advice, Catgut Acoust. Soc. Newsletter 28:7-9 (November 1977). Talk presented at the International Symposium on Violin Acoustics, Cambridge England, June 27-July 1, 1977. [3 pp.]
Wind instrument very-nearfield and room-average spectra (with P. S. Greenberg, P. L. Hoekje, and R. M. Suttle), J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 61:S35 (1977). [abstr.]

1978:

Acoustical studies of wind instruments, NSF Proposal with a description of the current status of Benade's research and lab activities (spring 1978).** [51 pp.]
Room acoustic requirements for the performer, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 63:S36 (1978). [abstr.]
Wave propagation in strongly curved musical instrument tubes (with D. Keefe and G. McCracken), J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 63:S57 (1978). [abstr.]
When a player of modern woodwinds meets an earlier version of his instrument (3 October 1978), letter to Isobel Ward that was widely circulated. The writing deals especially with the oboe, but is of general applicability.** [3 pp.]

1979:

The 'chops' letter: How to make friends with an unfamiliar clarinet (4 January 1979). Copy of part of a letter to George Plasko that was very widely circulated. **[4 pp.]
Horns, Strings and Harmony, hardbound library edition, Greenwood Press, Westport, CT (1979). [271 pp.]
Measured reproducibility of clarinet spectra (with C. O. Larson), J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 66:S30 (1979). [abstr.]
On the capillary method of impedance measurement--a brief note [135 KB, PDF] (11 May 1979). Copy of widely circulated letter to Xavier Lurton.** [2 pp.]
Organ reed and air column regenerative relations: Tools of the voicer's trade, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 66:S67 (1979). [abstr.]
Reeds for baroque oboes, effects of wall materials, and reed cavity and neck requirements--some brief notes (1 March 1979). Copy of widely circulated letter to Nora Post.** [3 pp.]

Writings 1958-69 | 70s | 80s | 90s

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