Timbre - selected bibliography


Adato, Joseph and George Judy. The Percussionist's Dictionary. Miami:
Belwin Mills, 1984.

Backus, John. The Acoustical Foundations of Music. New York: W. W.
Norton, 1969. 2nd ed., 1977.

Banek, Reinhold and Jon Scoville. Sound Designs: A Handbook of
Musical Instrument Building. Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 1980.

Bartolozzi, Bruno. New Sounds for Woodwind, 2nd ed. Tr. and ed. by 
Reginald Smith Brindle. London: Oxford University Press, 1982.

Benade, A. H. Fundamentals of Musical Acoustics. New York: Dover Press, 
1990.

Blades, James. Percussion Instruments and Their History. London: Faber 
and Faber Limited, 1975.

Brindle, Reginald Smith. Contemporary Percussion. London: Oxford
University Press, 1970.

Bunger, Richard. The Well-Prepared Piano. Colorado Springs, Colo.: 
Colorado College Music Press, 1973. 2nd. ed. Sebastopol, CA: Litoral 
Arts Press, 1981.

Cogan, Robert, 1930. New images of musical sound. Cambridge, Mass.:
Harvard University Press. 1984.

Cogan, Robert and Pozzi Escot.  Sonic Design.  Englewood Cliffs:      
Prentice-Hall, 1976.

Cole, Hugo. Sounds and Signs. London: Oxford University Press,
1974.

Contemporary Percussion, Performers' Perspectives. Ed. by Bob Becker. 
NY: Harwood Academic Pubs., 1993.

Cummings, Barton. The Contemporary Tuba. New London. CT: Whaling
Music Publishers, 1984.

Dempster, Stuart. The Modern Trombone: A Definition of its Idiom.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980.

Deutsch, Diana. The Psychology of Music. Academic Press, 1982.

Erickson, Robert. Sound Structure in Music. Berkeley: University
of California Press, 1975.

Fletcher, N. H. and T. D. Rossing. The Physics of Musical Instruments. 
Springer Verlag, 1981.

Grayson, John. Sound Sculpture. Vancouver: A.R.C., 1977.

Hiller, Lejaren and Leonard M. Issacson. Experimental Music. New York:
McGraw-Hill. 1959.

Howell, Thomas. The Avant-Garde Flute. Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1974.

Junger, Miguel and David Feit, eds. Sound Structures and Their
Interaction. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1986.

Olson, Harry F. Music, Physics and Engineering. New York: Dover Press,
1967.

Oram, Daphne. An Individual Note. London: Galliard Ltd., 1972.

Pierce, J. R. The Science of Musical Sound. rev. ed. W. H. Freeman, 1992.

Read, Gardner. Contemporary Instrumental Techniques. New York: 
Schirmer Books, 1976. 

Read, Gardner. Thesaurus of Orchestral Devices. NY: Pitman, 1953.

Rehfeldt, Philip. New Directions for Clarinet. Berkeley: University of 
California Press, 1977.

Risatti, Howard A. New Music Vocabulary. A Guide to Notational Signs 
for Contemporary Music. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1973.

Roederer, J. G. Introduction to the Physics and Psychophysics of Music. 
Springer Verlag, 1975.

Salzedo, Carlos. Modern Study for the Harp. New York: G. Schirmer, 1921.

Salzedo, Carlos. Method for the Harp. New York: G. Schirmer,1929.

Schonberg, Arnold. Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schonberg.
ed by Leonard Stein. New York: St. Martins Press, 1975.

Slawson, A. Wayne. Sound Color. Berkeley: University of California 
Press, 1985.

Stone, Kurt. Music Notation in the Twentieth Century. New York: W. W. 
Norton & Company, Inc., 1980.

Sundberg, J. The Science of Musical Sounds. Academic Press, 1992.

Sundberg, J. The Science of Singing Voice. Northern Illinois University
Press, 1987.

Timbre Composition in Electroacoustic Music. Papers from the Third Science 
and Music Conference, London, 1993. Ed. by Simon Emmerson. NY: Harwood 
Academic Publishers, 1994.

Turetzky, Bertram. The Contemporary Contrabass, rev. ed. Berkeley: 
University of California Press, 1989.

von Helmoltz, H. On the Sensation of Tone as a Psychological Basis for the 
Theory of Music. NY: Dover, 1954. (orig., 1863).

Winckel, Fritz. Music, Sound and Sensation. New York: Dover Publications, 
1967.

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