Fundamentals of musical acoustics /
Arthur H. Benade.
- London : Oxford University Press, 1975.
- xii, 596 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes index.
Preliminaries to the study of musical acoustics -- Impulsive sounds, alone in sequence -- Simple relations of sounds and motions -- Characteristic frequencies and the decay of composite sounds -- Pitch:the simpliest musical implication of characteristic oscillations -- The models of oscillation of simple and composite systems -- Introduction to vibration recipes: the plucked string -- Broad hammers and plectra, soft hammers and the stiffness of strings -- The vibrations of drumheads and soundboards -- Sinuosoidally driven oscillations -- Room acoustics I:excitation of the modes and the transmission of impulses -- Room acoustics II:the listener and the room -- The loudness of single and combined sounds -- The acoustical phenomena governing the musical relationship of pitch -- Successive tones:reverberations, melodic relationships and musical scales -- Keyboard temperaments and tuning properties of the organ, harpsichord and piano -- Sound production in pianos -- The clavichord and the harpsichord -- The voice as a musical instrument -- The brass wind instruments -- The woodwinds I -- The woodwinds II -- The oscillations of a bowed string -- Instruments of the violin family -- Half haved octaves, burrs, multiphonics and wolf notes.