The Arthur H. Benade Archive

WRITINGS ON ACOUSTICS BY ARTHUR H. BENADE

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

Listed here are the available published and unpublished writings of A. H. Benade.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** -- Unpublished material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 accompanied by added comments or corrections
slide(s) -- Material in various media made for projection during talks

Writings of the 1990s

1990:

Fundamentals of Musical Acoustics, reprint, with extensive corrections, Dover Publications (1990). (Originally published by Oxford University Press in 1976) [608 pp.]
On the tuning of clarinets [136 KB, DjVu] (written in 1987), The Clarinet, (November/December 1990), pp. 18-20. [3 pp.] Also included here are comments in later issues generated in response to the article: one by Lee Gibson in his column, Claranalysis [41 KB, DjVu] ((February/March 1991); two Letters to the Editor, one by Lee Gibson and the other by Virginia Benade [66 KB, DjVu]( November/December 1992). [3 pp. of follow-up]
A simplified model for a beating reed--preliminary results (with W. E. Worman and Michael Vadnais), J. Catgut Acoust. Soc. 2nd ser. 1(5):17-22 (1990). [This paper reports and expands on work done by Worman as a sabbatical visitor in Benade's lab for the academic year 1985-86.] [6 pp.]

1992:

Horns, Strings, and Harmony, paperback reprint, with corrections, Dover Publications (1992). [271 pp.] (Originally published in 1960 by Doubleday Anchor Books)

1994:

Benade's NX clarinet: Its genesis [348 KB, PDF] (written in 1987), The Clarinet (February/March 1994), pp. 46- 48. [3 pp.]

(See also a related paper by George Jameson--Benade's NX clarinet: Mechanical and other considerations [596 KB, PDF], The Clarinet (May/June 1994), pp. 32-33.) [2 pp.] This provides some design detail not included in the February/March article.

Woodwinds: The evolutionary path since 1770, Galpin Soc. J., 47:63-110 (March 1994). [4 plates, 11 figs., 3 musical examples] [The best version of the 1985 paper, revised by V. Benade and D. Keefe. See the listings under 1985, Woodwind history, for precursors of this paper.] [48 pp.]

1996:

The physics of a new clarinet design (with Douglas H. Keefe), Galpin Soc. J., 49 (March 1996), pp. 113-142. The middle section of three is by Benade, dictated in 1987. The outer sections clarify points in the central section, sometimes taking issue with them. Keefe also provides Conclusions and an Appendix on recent research on sound production in the clarinet. [30 pp.]

A note about the listings for 1982-1996: After cancer was diagnosed in the fall of 1982, Benade made increased use of detailed, at times flamboyant slides for many of his lectures. Though casual in appearance, most are more like mini papers (or, in the case of course notes, mini books) that can stand on their own, substituting for a more formal write-up. For his final ten months Benade was bedridden, but he used his dwindling supply of energy carefully, supervising the work of two graduate students, working out a CAD/CAM program for Carleen Hutchins, and dictating three journal articles and several shorter pieces to his wife. The journal articles appeared in 1988 in J. Acoust. Soc. Am. and most of the other dictated material has been published.

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

If you desire more detailed information about any of these files or wish to make arrangements to view the contents of the files at CCRMA, please contact:

Gary Scavone
Center for Computer Research in Music & Acoustics
gary at ccrma dot stanford dot edu

For general information regarding Arthur H. Benade or for information on files not yet transferred to CCRMA, please contact:

vbenade@yahoo.com