Other Related Books

• L. Cremer, The Physics of the Violin, MIT Press, 1984. (An intermediate to advanced musical acoustics book summarizing a lifetime of work in the field by a physicist and his students.)

• Allan D. Pierce, Acoustics, published by the American Institute of Physics, for the Acoustical Society of America, 1989. My favorite acoustics textbook. See
  http://asa.aip.org/publications.html.

• P. M. Morse and K. U. Ingard, Theoretical Acoustics, Princeton University Press, 1968. (Superb theory 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 -- very readable)

• 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. Favorite reference on linear prediction)

• Curtis Roads, The Computer Music Tutorial, The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1996. This 1234-page book contains extensive coverage of recent research and practice in computer music -- it's the next best thing to a complete set of Computer Music Journals (CMJ) and International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) Proceedings.

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

• Richard Boulanger, ed., The Csound Book: Perspectives in Software Synthesis, Sound Design, Signal Processing, and Programming, The MIT Press, March 2000. If you use CSound, this is a rich resource put together by a large number of experienced contributors.