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This bibliography lists all works cited or recommended throughout The Physics of Music and the Music of Physics, organized by subject area. An asterisk (*) marks works particularly recommended for undergraduate readers seeking to deepen their...

Appendix H: Bibliography

This bibliography lists all works cited or recommended throughout The Physics of Music and the Music of Physics, organized by subject area. An asterisk (*) marks works particularly recommended for undergraduate readers seeking to deepen their understanding beyond the textbook. A BibTeX file containing a subset of these references (for use in research papers) is provided in bibliography.bib in the same directory.


H.1 Foundational Textbooks — Physics of Sound and Music

These texts form the core pedagogical literature on acoustics and musical physics and are the primary recommended supplementary reading for this course.

Fletcher, N. H., & Rossing, T. D. (1991). The physics of musical instruments. Springer-Verlag. [Comprehensive treatment of the acoustics of every instrument family; essential reference for Chapters 9, 11, 12, and 18.]

Hall, D. E. (2002). Musical acoustics (3rd ed.). Brooks/Cole. [Undergraduate-level textbook with excellent balance of physical rigor and musical application; accessible treatment of most topics in this course.]*

Heller, E. J. (2012). Why you hear what you hear: An experiential approach to sound, music, and psychoacoustics. Princeton University Press. [Innovative conceptual approach with stunning visualizations; excellent companion for Chapters 1–10 and 21–25.]*

Kinsler, L. E., Frey, A. R., Coppens, A. B., & Sanders, J. V. (2000). Fundamentals of acoustics (4th ed.). Wiley. [Standard graduate-level acoustics reference covering wave theory, resonators, and radiation in mathematical depth.]

Morse, P. M. (1948). Vibration and sound (2nd ed.). McGraw-Hill. [Classic text by one of the founders of modern acoustics; particularly strong on boundary-value problems and radiation theory.]

Morse, P. M., & Ingard, K. U. (1968). Theoretical acoustics. McGraw-Hill. [Comprehensive advanced reference; essential for radiation, diffraction, and room acoustics theory.]

Olson, H. F. (1967). Music, physics, and engineering (2nd ed.). Dover. [Pioneering survey connecting acoustical physics to musical instruments and recording engineering; a classic of the field.]

Pierce, J. R. (1992). The science of musical sound (rev. ed.). W. H. Freeman. [Beautifully written introduction by a Bell Labs engineer who worked with Max Mathews on computer music; excellent on psychoacoustics and synthesis.]*

Rayleigh, J. W. S. (Baron Rayleigh). (1877–1878). The theory of sound (2 vols.). Macmillan. [Reprinted by Dover, 1945. The founding classical text of acoustics; remarkable for its breadth and mathematical precision.]

Roederer, J. G. (2008). The physics and psychophysics of music: An introduction (4th ed.). Springer. [Concise, authoritative undergraduate text bridging acoustics and psychoacoustics; covers most of Parts One and Three of this textbook.]*

Rossing, T. D. (Ed.). (2007). Springer handbook of acoustics. Springer. [Encyclopedic reference covering all areas of acoustics; chapter-length treatments by domain experts.]

Rossing, T. D., Moore, F. R., & Wheeler, P. A. (2002). The science of sound (3rd ed.). Pearson Education. [Clear, comprehensive undergraduate textbook; particularly strong on musical instrument acoustics and room acoustics.]*

Sethares, W. A. (2005). Tuning, timbre, spectrum, scale (2nd ed.). Springer. [Innovative exploration of the relationship between spectral content and perceived consonance across different tuning systems; directly relevant to Chapters 6 and 25.]

White, H. E., & White, D. H. (1980). Physics and music: The science of musical sound. Dover. [Readable undergraduate text; useful for its historical perspective on the development of musical acoustics.]

Wood, A. (1975). The physics of music (7th ed., rev. J. M. Bowsher). Chapman and Hall. [Classic British undergraduate text, first published in 1944; foundational for instrument acoustics.]


H.2 Acoustics and Signal Processing

Campbell, M., & Greated, C. (1987). The musician's guide to acoustics. Dent. [Written for practicing musicians rather than physicists; excellent bridge text for musical acoustics without heavy mathematics.]*

Cremer, L., Heckl, M., & Petersson, B. A. T. (2005). Structure-borne sound: Structural vibrations and sound radiation at audio frequencies (3rd ed.). Springer. [Advanced reference on vibrating structures as sound sources; essential for understanding soundboard acoustics.]

Everest, F. A., & Pohlmann, K. C. (2015). Master handbook of acoustics (6th ed.). McGraw-Hill. [Practical engineering reference for architectural acoustics and studio design; strong on measurement methods.]

Kuttruff, H. (2016). Room acoustics (6th ed.). CRC Press. [Comprehensive treatment of sound behavior in enclosed spaces; covers geometrical acoustics, wave theory, and statistical energy analysis.]

Oppenheim, A. V., & Schafer, R. W. (2010). Discrete-time signal processing (3rd ed.). Pearson. [Standard graduate-level DSP textbook; essential mathematical background for Chapters 14–16.]

Oppenheim, A. V., Willsky, A. S., & Nawab, S. H. (1997). Signals and systems (2nd ed.). Pearson. [Standard undergraduate signal theory; covers Fourier analysis, Laplace transforms, and linear systems theory.]

Rabiner, L. R., & Juang, B.-H. (1993). Fundamentals of speech recognition. Prentice Hall. [Comprehensive treatment of speech analysis (LPC, cepstrum, HMMs) with direct relevance to Chapter 20 and MIR methods in Chapter 36.]

Rabiner, L. R., & Schafer, R. W. (1978). Digital processing of speech signals. Prentice Hall. [Classic text covering cepstral analysis, LPC, and speech coding; foundational for Chapter 20.]

Roads, C. (1996). The computer music tutorial. MIT Press. [Encyclopedic treatment of digital audio, synthesis methods, signal processing for music, and computer music history; essential reference for Chapters 13–16.]*

Smith, J. O. (2010). Physical audio signal processing. Stanford University Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics. [Available at ccrma.stanford.edu; excellent treatment of digital waveguide synthesis and physical modeling.]

Steiglitz, K. (1996). A digital signal processing primer, with applications to digital audio and computer music. Addison-Wesley. [Accessible undergraduate introduction to DSP with musical applications.]*

Vercoe, B. (1986). Csound: A manual for the audio processing system. MIT Media Lab. [Historical document marking the development of the Csound music programming language; relevant to the history of computer music synthesis.]

Wakefield, G. H. (2004). Psychoacoustics and audio quality. In J. Borwick (Ed.), Sound recording practice (5th ed., pp. 42–91). Oxford University Press. [Practical summary of psychoacoustics for audio engineers.]

Zölzer, U. (Ed.). (2011). DAFX: Digital audio effects (2nd ed.). Wiley. [Comprehensive treatment of audio effects algorithms including dynamics processing, reverb, pitch shifting, and synthesis; essential for Chapter 34.]


H.3 Music Theory and Harmony

Aldwell, E., & Schachter, C. (2003). Harmony and voice leading (3rd ed.). Thomson Schirmer. [Standard undergraduate harmony textbook; rigorous treatment of tonal voice leading practice.]*

Caplin, W. E. (1998). Classical form: A theory of formal functions for the instrumental music of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. Oxford University Press. [Influential analysis of musical form in the Classical period; relevant to Chapter 7.]

Forte, A. (1973). The structure of atonal music. Yale University Press. [Foundational text for post-tonal music theory; introduces pitch-class set theory as a framework for analyzing atonal music.]

Headlam, D. (1996). The music of Alban Berg. Yale University Press. [Detailed analysis of Berg's use of serial and tonal techniques; illustrates the symmetry operations discussed in Chapter 38.]

Kopp, D. (2002). Chromatic transformations in nineteenth-century music. Cambridge University Press. [Study of chromatic harmony and the Neo-Riemannian transformations (P, L, R) that connect triads; directly relevant to Chapter 26.]

Lewin, D. (1987). Generalized musical intervals and transformations. Yale University Press. Reprinted by Oxford University Press, 2007. [Foundational text for transformational music theory; introduces the mathematical framework for musical group actions and Klumpenhouwer networks.]

Lerdahl, F. (2001). Tonal pitch space. Oxford University Press. [Formal cognitive-mathematical theory of tonal hierarchy and tension; bridges music theory and music psychology.]

Lerdahl, F., & Jackendoff, R. (1983). A generative theory of tonal music. MIT Press. [Landmark text applying Chomskyan generative linguistics to music; proposes formal rules for metrical structure, grouping, and prolongational reduction.]*

Rameau, J.-P. (1722). Traité de l'harmonie. Ballard. [English translation by P. Gossett: Rameau, J.-P. (1971). Treatise on harmony. Dover.] [Foundational text of Western harmonic theory; introduces the concepts of chord inversion and the basse fondamentale.]

Schoenberg, A. (1967). Fundamentals of musical composition (Strang, G., & Stein, L., Eds.). Faber and Faber. [Practical manual on musical form and compositional technique by the inventor of twelve-tone serialism.]*

Straus, J. N. (2016). Introduction to post-tonal theory (4th ed.). Norton. [Standard undergraduate text on twentieth-century harmonic language; pitch-class sets, serialism, and transformational theory.]

Tymoczko, D. (2011). A geometry of music: Harmony and counterpoint in the extended common practice. Oxford University Press. [Path-breaking work applying orbifold geometry to voice leading; directly relevant to Chapters 26 and 38.]*

Westergaard, P. (1975). An introduction to tonal theory. Norton. [Alternative linear counterpoint-based approach to tonal theory; different perspective from Schoenberg-based approaches.]

Zarlino, G. (1558). Le istitutioni harmoniche. Venice. [Renaissance theorist who systematized just intonation and the major/minor mode system; historically essential to Chapter 6.]


H.4 Psychoacoustics and Music Cognition

Bregman, A. S. (1990). Auditory scene analysis: The perceptual organization of sound. MIT Press. [Seminal work on how the auditory system separates sound sources; essential reading for Chapter 28.]*

Dowling, W. J., & Harwood, D. L. (1986). Music cognition. Academic Press. [Comprehensive cognitive psychology of music covering pitch, melody, rhythm, harmony, and emotion.]

Gabrielsson, A. (2011). Strong experiences with music: Music is much more than just music. In P. N. Juslin & J. A. Sloboda (Eds.), Handbook of music and emotion (pp. 547–574). Oxford University Press. [Systematic survey of peak musical experiences and their psychological determinants.]

Helmholtz, H. von. (1863). Die Lehre von den Tonempfindungen als physiologische Grundlage für die Theorie der Musik. Braunschweig. [English translation by A. J. Ellis: Helmholtz, H. von. (1875). On the sensations of tone as a physiological basis for the theory of music. Longmans, Green. Reprinted by Dover, 1954.] [The founding text of modern psychoacoustics and consonance theory; monumental in scope and still worth reading.]*

Huron, D. (2006). Sweet anticipation: Music and the psychology of expectation. MIT Press. [Comprehensive theory of musical expectation, prediction, and emotional response; foundational for Chapters 29 and 30.]*

Jourdain, R. (1997). Music, the brain, and ecstasy: How music captures our imagination. William Morrow. [Accessible account for general audiences; good overview of cognitive science approaches to music.]*

Juslin, P. N., & Sloboda, J. A. (Eds.). (2010). Handbook of music and emotion: Theory, research, applications. Oxford University Press. [Comprehensive scholarly reference on music and emotion covering all major theoretical frameworks and empirical findings.]

Levitin, D. J. (2006). This is your brain on music: The science of a human obsession. Dutton. [Highly accessible popular science account of neuroscience and music cognition; useful entry point for non-specialist readers.]*

Moore, B. C. J. (2012). An introduction to the psychology of hearing (6th ed.). Brill. [Standard graduate-level psychoacoustics textbook covering detection, masking, pitch, loudness, and spatial hearing.]*

Peretz, I., & Coltheart, M. (2003). Modularity of music processing. Nature Neuroscience, 6(7), 688–691. [Key paper arguing for multiple specialized cognitive modules for music processing.]

Plomp, R., & Levelt, W. J. M. (1965). Tonal consonance and critical bandwidth. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 38(4), 548–560. [Classic psychophysical study establishing the role of critical bands in consonance perception; essential reference for Chapter 25.]

Sacks, O. (2007). Musicophilia: Tales of music and the brain. Knopf. [Neurological case studies revealing the brain's complex relationship with music; compelling and accessible.]*

Shepard, R. N. (1982). Geometrical approximations to the structure of musical pitch. Psychological Review, 89(4), 305–333. [Foundational paper on the helical-toroidal geometry of pitch space; directly relevant to Chapter 26.]

Sloboda, J. A. (1985). The musical mind: The cognitive psychology of music. Oxford University Press. [Foundational cognitive psychology of music; covers musical representation, listening, performance, and development.]

Sloboda, J. A. (1991). Music structure and emotional response: Some empirical findings. Psychology of Music, 19(2), 110–120. [Empirical study identifying specific musical features (appoggiatura, harmonic changes) that trigger frisson.]

Temperley, D. (2001). The cognition of basic musical structures. MIT Press. [Computational cognitive models for meter, key, melody, and counterpoint; bridges music theory and cognitive science.]

Tillmann, B., Bharucha, J. J., & Bigand, E. (2000). Implicit learning of tonality: A self-organizing approach. Psychological Review, 107(4), 885–913. [Connectionist model of how listeners internalize tonal hierarchies through statistical learning.]

Zatorre, R. J., & Salimpoor, V. N. (2013). From perception to pleasure: Music and its neural substrates. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 110(Suppl. 2), 10430–10437. [Review of neuroscience of music-evoked pleasure and reward; key reference for Chapters 29 and 30.]

Zwicker, E., & Fastl, H. (2013). Psychoacoustics: Facts and models (3rd ed.). Springer. [Comprehensive technical reference on psychoacoustics; covers detection, masking, loudness, pitch, and roughness with quantitative models.]*


H.5 Music and Physics — Advanced

Chowning, J. M. (1973). The synthesis of complex audio spectra by means of frequency modulation. Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, 21(7), 526–534. [The foundational paper describing FM synthesis; introduced what became the basis of the Yamaha DX7 synthesizer.]

Gabor, D. (1946). Theory of communication. Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, 93(III), 429–457. [Introduces the time-frequency analysis concepts now central to audio processing, including the Gabor wavelet and the uncertainty principle for signals; essential background for Chapter 16.]

Grey, J. M. (1977). Multidimensional perceptual scaling of musical timbres. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 61(5), 1270–1277. [Landmark psychophysical study using MDS to map timbral similarity in a low-dimensional perceptual space.]

Mathews, M. V. (1963). The digital computer as a musical instrument. Science, 142(3592), 553–557. [Historic paper announcing the possibility of computer-generated music; marks the birth of computer music.]

Mathews, M. V., & Pierce, J. R. (Eds.). (1989). Current directions in computer music research. MIT Press. [Collection of foundational papers on computer music, synthesis, and acoustics.]

Mazzola, G. (2002). The topos of music: Geometric logic of concepts, theory, and performance. Birkhäuser. [Ambitious and mathematically sophisticated work applying category theory and algebraic topology to music theory; for advanced readers.]

McAdams, S., & Bigand, E. (Eds.). (1993). Thinking in sound: The cognitive psychology of human audition. Oxford University Press. [Excellent collection covering auditory scene analysis, timbre, and temporal processing.]

Schneider, A. (Ed.). (2018). Studies in musical acoustics and psychoacoustics. Springer. [Contemporary collection of research papers connecting acoustics, instrument physics, and psychoacoustics.]

Truax, B. (2001). Acoustic communication (2nd ed.). Ablex. [Ecological and communicative approach to sound; covers soundscape, acoustic ecology, and signal processing for sound art.]

Xenakis, I. (1992). Formalized music: Thought and mathematics in composition (rev. ed.). Pendragon Press. [Composer-mathematician's foundational text on stochastic music, set theory, and computational composition; essential for Chapter 37.]


H.6 History of Music and Science

Cohen, H. F. (1984). Quantifying music: The science of music at the first stage of the Scientific Revolution, 1580–1650. Reidel. [Scholarly analysis of the mathematical treatment of music during the Scientific Revolution; covers Galilei, Mersenne, and Descartes.]

Christensen, T. (Ed.). (2002). The Cambridge history of Western music theory. Cambridge University Press. [Comprehensive scholarly reference on the history of Western music theory from antiquity through the twentieth century.]

Erlmann, V. (2010). Reason and resonance: A history of modern aurality. Zone Books. [Cultural history of hearing and acoustics from the seventeenth century to the present; interdisciplinary and challenging.]

Godwin, J. (1992). The harmony of the spheres: The Pythagorean tradition in music. Inner Traditions. [Survey of the musical cosmology tradition from Pythagoras through Kepler and beyond; relevant to historical discussions throughout this textbook.]*

Gouk, P. (1999). Music, science and natural magic in seventeenth-century England. Yale University Press. [Scholarly study of the interactions between music theory, natural philosophy, and magical traditions in Restoration England.]

Isacoff, S. (2001). Temperament: How music became a battleground for the great minds of Western civilization. Knopf. [Accessible account of the centuries-long debate over musical tuning; recommended popular reading for Chapter 6.]*

James, J. (1993). The music of the spheres: Music, science, and the natural order of the universe. Grove Press. [Engaging popular history of the ancient connection between music and cosmic order.]*

Kepler, J. (1619). Harmonices mundi [The Harmony of the World]. Linz. [English translation by E. J. Aiton, A. M. Duncan, & J. V. Field (1997). American Philosophical Society.] [Kepler's attempt to relate planetary orbital data to musical intervals; a remarkable document of Renaissance natural philosophy.]

Levenson, T. (1994). Measure for measure: A musical history of science. Simon & Schuster. [Popular account of the parallels between musical and scientific development from Galileo to the present.]*

Lippman, E. A. (1992). A history of Western musical aesthetics. Nebraska University Press. [Scholarly survey of philosophical approaches to music from antiquity through the twentieth century.]

Palisca, C. V. (1985). Humanism in Italian Renaissance musical thought. Yale University Press. [Scholarly study of how Renaissance humanism transformed music theory; relevant to the historical treatment of harmony and tuning.]

Pythagoras (attrib.). (c. 530 BCE). Fragments on music and mathematics. In A. Barker (Ed.). (1989). Greek musical writings: Vol. 2, Harmonic and acoustic theory (pp. 28–52). Cambridge University Press. [Primary source compilation of ancient Greek musical-mathematical thought.]

Rehding, A. (2003). Hugo Riemann and the birth of modern musical thought. Cambridge University Press. [Intellectual biography of the theorist who invented harmonic dualism and the transformational approach to harmony.]

Schaeffer, P. (1966). Traité des objets musicaux [Treatise on musical objects]. Seuil. [Foundational text of musique concrète and the theory of the "sound object"; essential for understanding acousmatic music and electroacoustic composition.]

Whitfield, P. (1995). The image of the world: 20 centuries of world maps. British Library. [Contextual reference for the cosmological mapping of sound; relevant to Chapter 33's discussion of musical worldviews.]


H.7 Ethnomusicology and Cross-Cultural Music

Blacking, J. (1973). How musical is man? University of Washington Press. [Foundational ethnomusicological argument that musicality is a universal human attribute; central to Chapter 33.]*

Clayton, M. (2000). Time in Indian music: Rhythm, metre, and form in North Indian rāg performance. Oxford University Press. [Detailed study of tala and rhythmic performance practice in Hindustani music; essential reference for Chapter 33.]

Hood, M. (1971). The ethnomusicologist. McGraw-Hill. [Foundational methodology text for ethnomusicological fieldwork and analysis.]

Kubik, G. (1994). Theory of African music (2 vols.). Smithsonian Folkways; University of Chicago Press, 2010. [Comprehensive treatment of sub-Saharan African music theory, with original analyses of rhythm, tuning, and form.]

Lomax, A. (1968). Folk song style and culture. American Association for the Advancement of Science. [Cantometrics project: quantitative cross-cultural analysis of singing style and its relationship to social structure.]

Meer, W. van der, Bhattacharya, B., & Mout, J. (2019). Analyzing raga: Computational and cognitive approaches. Journal of the Indian Musicological Society, 49, 23–47. [Computational analysis of raga structure and melodic grammar; relevant to Chapters 33 and 36.]

Nettl, B. (2005). The study of ethnomusicology: Thirty-one issues and concepts (2nd ed.). University of Illinois Press. [Comprehensive methodological and conceptual overview of ethnomusicology; essential background for Chapter 33.]*

Powers, H. S. (1980). Mode. In S. Sadie (Ed.), The New Grove dictionary of music and musicians (Vol. 12, pp. 376–450). Macmillan. [Comprehensive scholarly article on mode across world musical traditions; essential reference.]

Sachs, C. (1943). The rise of music in the ancient world, East and West. Norton. [Historical survey of ancient music cultures from Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, India, and China; foundational for comparative musicology.]

Shelemay, K. K. (2001). Soundscapes: Exploring music in a changing world. Norton. [Introductory ethnomusicology textbook covering world music traditions with attention to cultural context.]*


H.8 Neuroscience of Music

Griffiths, T. D., Büchel, C., Frackowiak, R. S. J., & Patterson, R. D. (1998). Analysis of temporal structure in sound by the human brain. Nature Neuroscience, 1(5), 422–427. [fMRI study of temporal pitch processing in auditory cortex; relevant to Chapter 24.]

Honing, H. (2011). Musical cognition: A science of listening. Transaction Publishers. [Accessible account of music cognition research; particularly strong on rhythm, meter, and expectation.]*

Koelsch, S. (2012). Brain and music. Wiley-Blackwell. [Comprehensive neuroscience of music covering syntax, emotion, memory, and social bonding; essential reference for Chapters 27–31.]*

Koelsch, S., Fritz, T., von Cramon, D. Y., Müller, K., & Friederici, A. D. (2006). Investigating emotion with music: An fMRI study. Human Brain Mapping, 27(3), 239–250. [Neuroimaging study of brain regions activated by emotionally valenced music; key reference for Chapter 29.]

Levitin, D. J., & Menon, V. (2003). Musical structure is processed in "language" areas of the brain: A possible role for Brodmann Area 47 in temporal coherence. NeuroImage, 20(4), 2142–2152. [Evidence for shared neural resources in music and language processing.]

Patel, A. D. (2008). Music, language, and the brain. Oxford University Press. [Thorough examination of the relationship between music and language processing systems; covers syntax, melody, rhythm, and meaning.]*

Peretz, I., & Zatorre, R. J. (2005). Brain organization for music processing. Annual Review of Psychology, 56, 89–114. [Comprehensive review of neuropsychological and neuroimaging evidence for music-specific processing; essential for Chapter 27.]

Salimpoor, V. N., Benovoy, M., Larcher, K., Dagher, A., & Zatorre, R. J. (2011). Anatomically distinct dopamine release during anticipation and experience of peak emotion to music. Nature Neuroscience, 14(2), 257–262. [PET and fMRI study demonstrating dopamine release in nucleus accumbens during chills to music; foundational for Chapter 30.]*

Thaut, M. H. (2005). Rhythm, music, and the brain: Scientific foundations and clinical applications. Routledge. [Summary of neuroscience research on rhythmic auditory stimulation and its applications in neurological rehabilitation.]

Zatorre, R. J., Chen, J. L., & Penhune, V. B. (2007). When the brain plays music: Auditory–motor interactions in music perception and production. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 8(7), 547–558. [Review of auditory-motor integration in music performance and listening; key reference for Chapters 27 and 31.]


H.9 Technology and Recording

Bregitzer, L. (2009). Secrets of recording: Professional tips, tools & techniques. Focal Press. [Practical guide to modern recording techniques; useful supplement to Chapter 34.]*

Eargle, J. (2004). The microphone book (2nd ed.). Focal Press. [Comprehensive treatment of microphone types, polar patterns, and placement; covers the physics of transduction and acoustic design.]

Katz, B. (2015). Mastering audio: The art and the science (3rd ed.). Focal Press. [Authoritative guide to the mastering process; covers metering (LUFS), dynamic range, and format delivery; essential for Chapter 34.]*

Millard, A. (2005). America on record: A history of recorded sound (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press. [Social and technological history of recording from Edison's phonograph to the digital era.]

Morton, D. L. (2000). Sound recording: The life story of a technology. Johns Hopkins University Press. [Historical account of recording technology development; relevant to Chapter 14's historical context.]

Rumsey, F., & McCormick, T. (2014). Sound and recording: Applications and theory (7th ed.). Focal Press. [Comprehensive undergraduate textbook on audio technology, recording, and signal processing; recommended supplement for the whole of Part Five.]*

Savage, S. (2011). Bytes and backbeats: Repurposing music in the digital age. University of Michigan Press. [Cultural and technical analysis of digital recording's transformation of music production practice.]

Sterne, J. (2003). The audible past: Cultural origins of sound reproduction. Duke University Press. [Cultural history of sound reproduction technologies from the phonograph onward; scholarly and richly contextualized.]

Théberge, P. (1997). Any sound you can imagine: Making music/consuming technology. Wesleyan University Press. [Sociological analysis of how musical instrument technology shapes musical practice and industry.]

Toole, F. E. (2018). Sound reproduction: The acoustics and psychoacoustics of loudspeakers and rooms (3rd ed.). Routledge. [Comprehensive treatment of loudspeaker acoustics and room interaction; covers HRTF, stereo, and surround reproduction.]*


Beer, R. D., & Gallagher, J. C. (1992). Evolving dynamical neural networks for adaptive behavior. Adaptive Behavior, 1(1), 91–122. [Background on dynamical systems applied to neural networks; relevant to Chapter 37.]

Cope, D. (2005). Computer models of musical creativity. MIT Press. [Survey of algorithmic composition systems and their aesthetic implications; relevant to Chapter 40.]

Deutsch, D. (Ed.). (2013). The psychology of music (3rd ed.). Academic Press. [Comprehensive reference on music cognition spanning pitch, melody, rhythm, harmony, performance, and development.]

Fauvel, J., Flood, R., & Wilson, R. (Eds.). (2006). Music and mathematics: From Pythagoras to fractals. Oxford University Press. [Accessible collection of essays on mathematical topics in music; covers tuning, counterpoint, symmetry, and chaos.]*

Johansson, B. B. (1996). Redundancy and the brain. Progress in Neurobiology, 48(1), 43–63. [Background neuroscience on neural redundancy; contextual reference for Chapter 22.]

Langner, G. (2015). The neural code of pitch and harmony. Cambridge University Press. [Advanced neuroscience of pitch and harmony coding in the auditory brainstem and cortex.]

Large, E. W., & Jones, M. R. (1999). The dynamics of attending: How people track time-varying events. Psychological Review, 106(1), 119–159. [Dynamic attending theory of rhythmic perception; essential for Chapter 32.]

Loy, G. (2006). Musimathics: The mathematical foundations of music (2 vols.). MIT Press. [Comprehensive mathematical treatment of music theory, acoustics, and signal processing at undergraduate/graduate level.]*

Miranda, E. R., & Wanderley, M. M. (2006). New digital musical instruments: Control and interaction beyond the keyboard. A-R Editions. [Survey of new interfaces for musical expression; relevant to Chapter 40.]

Pressing, J. (2002). Black Atlantic rhythm: Its computational and transcultural foundations. Music Perception, 19(3), 285–310. [Cross-cultural and computational analysis of rhythm in African Diaspora music; relevant to Chapters 32 and 33.]


This bibliography was current as of publication. For updates, readers should consult the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Music Perception, Psychology of Music, Journal of New Music Research, and the proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) and the Society for Music Perception and Cognition (SMPC).