Related CCRMA PhD Theses

• Julius Smith, Techniques for Digital Filter Design & System Identification with Application to the Violin, PhD/EE/CCRMA Dissertation, Stanford University, June 1983. Also available as a CCRMA publication, Dept. of Music, Stanford University, Stanford CA.

• Perry Cook, Identification of Control Parameters in an Articulatory Vocal Tract Model, with Applications to the Synthesis of Singing, PhD/EE/CCRMA Dissertation, Stanford University, Dec. 1990. Available as a CCRMA publication, Dept. of Music, Stanford University, Stanford CA.

• David Berners, Acoustics and Signal Processing Techniques for Physical Modeling of Brass Instruments, PhD/EE/CCRMA Dissertation, Stanford University, 1995. Available online at http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~dpberner/.

• Gary Scavone, An Acoustic Analysis of Single-Reed Woodwind Instruments with an Emphasis on Design and Performance Issues and Digital Waveguide Modeling Techniques, PhD/Music/CCRMA Dissertation, Stanford University, March 1997. Available as CCRMA Technical Report No. STAN-M-100 or from
  ftp://ccrma-ftp.stanford.edu/pub/Publications/Theses/GaryScavoneThesis/. (You purchase any CCRMA publication in the trailers from Tricia for the price of copying.)

• Stefan Bilbao, Wave and Scattering Methods for the Numerical Integration of Partial Differential Equations, PhD/EE/CCRMA Dissertation, Stanford University, June 2001. Also available as a CCRMA publication, Dept. of Music, Stanford University, Stanford CA. Also available online at http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~bilbao/.

• Hui-Ling (Vicky) Lu, Toward a High-Quality Singing Synthesizer with Vocal Texture Control, PhD/EE/CCRMA Dissertation, Stanford University, March 2002.
  http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~vickylu/thesis/

• Tim Stilson, Efficiently Variable Algorithms in Virtual-Analog Music Synthesis--A Root-Locus Perspective, PhD/EE/CCRMA Dissertation, Stanford University, March 2006. http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~stilti/

• Tamara Smyth, Applications of Bioacoustics to the Development of Musical Instrument Technology, PhD/Music/CCRMA Dissertation, Stanford University, March 2004.

• Stefania Serafin, The sound of friction: real-time models, playability and musical applications, PhD/Music/CCRMA Dissertation, Stanford University, March 2004.

• David Yeh, Digital Implementation of Musical Distortion Circuits by Analysis and Simulation, PhD/EE Dissertation, Stanford University, 2009. Available online at http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~dtyeh/.

See also the many related dissertations at the HUT Acoustics Lab: http://www.acoustics.hut.fi/ such as

• Vesa Valimaki,
  Discrete-Time Modeling of Acoustic Tubes Using Fractional Delay Filters,
  PhD/EE Thesis, Helsinki University of Technology, 1995. Available online at
  http://bekesy.hut.fi/~vpv/publications/vesa_phd.html This thesis contains a detailed exposition of fractional delay filtering with application to digital waveguides, and in-depth study of Lagrange interpolation and transient effects, etc.