Supplemental References and Sources for Sound, Physics, and Music

Google, http://www.google.com/

Central Arkansas Library System (CALS), http://www.cals.lib.ar.us/

Ottenheimer Library, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, http://library.ualr.edu/

The Physics of Sound, 3d edition, by Richard E. Berg and David G. Stork, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, (1982, 1995, 2004)

Acoustics Today, A publication of the Acoustical Society of America (http://asa.aip.org/)

The Cartoon Guide to Physics, Larry Gonick and Art Huffman, HarperPerennial edition published in 1991.

physics of musical instruments by Dr. Brian Blood, http://www.dolmetsch.com/poshistory.htm

Acoustics/Physics of Sound Book List (Basic Level), http://www.musictrader.com/bookacou.html

Promenade 'round the Cochlea, (http://www.cochlea.org/) an informative commercial web site discussing sound and the ear; contains a nice reference list.

Standard Pitch Or Concert Pitch For Pianos, ( http://www.uk-piano.org/history/pitch.html) a brief history of tuning, list of historical pitch levels, and list of the frequencies of all keys of the piano, presented by the U. K. Piano Page.

THE ACOUSTICS OF THE PIANO, (http://www.speech.kth.se/music/5_lectures/contents.html) a five lecture series by experts in the field describing the important features of piano acoustics. This is an excellent set of lectures, and includes a set of audio examples comparing the sounds of a variety of historical instruments. EXCELLENT!

120 Years of Electronic Music (http://www.obsolete.com/120_years/) discusses the development of electrical and electronic musical instruments, from the 1870s to the 1990s. Many illustrations.

Music Acoustics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (http://newt.phys.unsw.edu.au/music/)