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This page has information about the science of music related to the display on the Science and Engineering Library's Third Floor. Below you will find information about the items on display and also links to web pages for further reading.

Books from the display

The following are books in the display and can be checked out. Click on the link to go to the catalog for more information about the book. The list also contains books labeled with (ebook) which are available electronically. Most of these require the Off-campus Sign-in before using.

• Absolute Beginner's Guide to iPod and iTunes (ebook)


• The acoustical foundations of music


• Analysis, synthesis, and perception of musical sounds: the sound of music


• Analysis, synthesis, and perception of musical sounds: the sound of music (ebook)


• Analytical methods of electroacoustic music


• The art of artificial evolution: a handbook on evolutionary art and music? (ebook)


• The Art of electronic music


• Biomusicology: neurophysiological, neuropsychological, and evolutionary perspectives on the origins and purposes of music


• The Cambridge companion to electronic music


• The Complete Home Music Recording Starter Kit (ebook)


• Computational auditory scene analysis


• Computational Mechanics of the Classical Guitar (ebook)


• Computer music modeling and retrieval : international symposium, CMMR 2003, Montpellier, France, May 26-27, 2003 ; revised papers


• Computer music modeling and retrieval: Second International Symposium, CMMR 2004, Esbjerg, Denmark, May 26-29, 2004: revised papers


• Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval. Sense of Sounds: 4th International Symposium, CMMR 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 27-31, 2007. Revised Papers


• Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval: International Symposium, CMMR 2003, Montpellier, France, May 26-27, 2003. Revised Papers (ebook)


• Computer music modeling and retrieval: Second International Symposium, CMMR 2004, Esbjerg, Denmark, May 26-29, 2004: revised papers (ebook)


• Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval: Third International Symposium, CMMR 2005, Pisa, Italy, September 26-28, 2005. Revised Papers (ebook)


• Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval. Sense of Sounds: 4th International Symposium, CMMR 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 27-31, 2007. Revised Papers (ebook)


• Concise Oxford dictionary of music (ebook)


• Creativity and Innovation in the Music Industry (ebook)


• Density 21.5 : for flute alone


• Digital audio essentials (ebook)


• Dynamic media: music, video, animation, and the web in Adobe PDF (ebook)


• The ear and the voice


• Electroacoustic music: analytical perspectives / edited by Thomas Licata, foreword by Jean-Claude Risset


• Electronic and computer music


• Essentials of sound


• The Euclidean Division of the canon: Greek and Latin sources: new critical texts and translations on facing pages, with an introduction, annotations, and indices verborum and nominum et rerum


• Evolutionary computer music (ebook)


• Expanded tunings in contemporary music: theoretical innovations and practical applications


• Formulas of acoustics (ebook)


• From Edison to MP3: a struggle for the future of the music recording industry (ebook)


• Fundamentals of musical acoustics


• A General History of the Science and Practice of Music (ebook)


• Halls for music performance : two decades of experience, 1962-1982 : presented at the 103rd meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Chicago, 26-30 April 1982 / edited by Richard H. Talaske, Ewart A. Wetherill, William J. Cavanaugh


• Handbook of Signal Processing in Acoustics (ebook)


• A history of performing pitch: the story of "A"


• Horns, strings, and harmony


• Ionisation


• Klangfarbenetude: Studien zum Bolero von Maurice Ravel


• Laptop Music Power!: The Comprehensive Guide (ebook)


• MacAddict guide to making music with GarageBand (ebook)


• The mathematical theory of tone systems


• Measured tones: the interplay of physics and music


• Mechanical sound: technology, culture, and public problems of noise in the twentieth century


• Mechanics of Musical Instruments


• Muscle management for musicians


• Music and acoustics: from instrument to computer


• Music and concert hall acoustics


• Music and Marx: ideas, practice, politics


• Music and mathematics: from Pythagoras to fractals


• Music, acoustics & architecture


• Music, cognition, and computerized sound: an introduction to psychoacoustics (ebook)


• Music, gestalt, and computing: studies in cognitive and systematic musicology


• Music, motor control and the brain


• Music, music therapy and trauma: international perspectives


• Musical acoustics


• Musical acoustics


• Musical acoustics


• Musical Acoustics: Or, the Phenomena of Sound as Connected with Music (ebook)


• Musical Instruments: History, Technology, and Performance of Instruments of Western Music (ebook)


• Musik und Raum: eine Sammlung von Beitragen aus historischer und kunstlerischer Sicht zur Bedeutung des Begriffes "Raum" als Klangtrager fur die Musik


• Musimathics: the mathematical foundations of music


• Musiques formelles; nouveaux principes formels de composition musicale


• Paganini, master of strings


• Perception-based data processing in acoustics: applications to music information retrieval and psychophysiology of hearing


• Perception-based data processing in acoustics: applications to music information retrieval and psychophysiology of hearing (ebook)


• Physics and music: the science of musical sound


• The physics and psychophysics of music: an introduction


• The Physics of music: readings from Scientific American


• The physics of musical instruments


• The physics of sound


• The physics of the violin


• Portrait(s) de Iannis Xenakis


• Psychology and music: the understanding of melody and rhythm


• Readings in computer-generated music


• The recording engineer's handbook (ebook)


• Riding the waves: a life in sound, science, and industry


• The science and applications of acoustics


• The science and applications of acoustics (ebook)


• The science of harmonics in classical Greece


• Scientific method in Ptolemy's Harmonics


• The second sense: language, music, & hearing


• Signal Processing Methods for Music Transcription (ebook)


• Speech acoustics and phonetics (ebook)


• Speech and hearing science: anatomy and physiology


• Speech, audio, image and biomedical signal processing using neural networks (ebook)


• Springer Handbook of Acoustics (ebook)


• The structure of recognizable diatonic tunings


• Take Control of Making Music with GarageBand '08 (ebook)


• Tonal pitch space (ebook)


• The ultimate live sound operator's handbook


• Varese : astronomer in sound


• Vocal fold physiology: voice quality control : proceedings of the VIIIth Vocal Fold Physiology Conference, Kurume, April 7-9, 1994


• Voice science


• Voice science, acoustics and recording


• Ways of Listening: An Ecological Approach to the Perception of Musical Meaning (ebook)


• Xenakis


• Xenakis : his life in music

Musical Media: From Wax Cylinders to CDs - Objects on which Music Has Been Recorded

Below you will find images of items in the display case and information about them. These are items on which music has been stored over the years.

Item	Image	Description	More Information
Phonograph Cylinder		Year Invented: 1877 Materials: Tinfoil, wax, celluloid Important Names: Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell	Cylinder Recordings: A Primer
78 rpm Records		Year Invented: 1898 Materials: shellac, vinyl	The history of 78 RPM recordings
LP (33 1/3 rpm)		Year Invented: 1948 Material: polyvinyl chloride Important Names: Columbia Records Other: 33 1/3 rpm	Vinyl Records: LPs and 45s
Reel to Reel Tape		Year Invented: 1948 Material: magnetic tape (cellulose acetate, iron oxide) Important Names: Poulsen, Pfleumer, Allgemeine Elektrizitatsgesellschaft, BASF	The History of Magnetic Recording
8 Track Cassette		Year Invented: 1965 Material: magnetic tape in a plastic cartridge Important Names: Bill Lear Other: Also known as Stereo 8	The History of the 8-track Tape
Audio Cassette		Year Invented: 1961 Material: magnetic tape in a plastic cartridge Important Names: Philips Also known as: compact cassette	From Poulsen to Plastic: A Survey of Recordable Magnetic Media
Compact Disc		Year Invented: 1980 Material: polycarbonate plastic, metal (usually aluminum, sometimes gold) Important Names: Philips, Sony Also known as: CD	Molecular Expressions: History of the Compact Disc

Bonus: Electronic Access Music

The following resources require you to click on the Off-campus Sign-in link.

• NAXOS Music Library
  • The most comprehensive collection of classical music available online. It includes the complete Naxos, Marco Polo and Dacapo catalogues of over 85,000 tracks, including Classical music, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music. We have 10 simultaneous users capacity.
  • Example: BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 9 (Furtwangler) (1943)
  
  
• NAXOS Music Library Jazz
• NAXOS Music Library Jazz contains over 23,000 tracks from Fantasy Records of jazz and rhythm and blues. Over 1800 albums and over 500 artists are represented in the database. 10 concurrent users

Recommended web pages for further viewing:

• The Science of Music: Exploratorium's Accidental Scientist


• MusicNovatory: The Science of Music


• Music Science and the Science of Music


• Physics, Mathematics, and technology of Music


• Mathematics of Music


• The Mathematics of Music | The Music of Mathematics


• Music & Math: The Mathematics of Music Notation


• Math in Music


• The Physics of Music and Musical Instruments


• Physics of Music - Notes


• UIUC Physics 199POM: Physics of Music - Useful/Neat Links Page:


• Mathematics and Music


• The Correlation Between Music and Math: A Neurobiology Perspective


• Acoustics for Music


• The Biology of Music


• Rules for music wired into the brain: Researchers explore the biology of music


• Recording Technology History


• The History of Recording Technology

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Last updated: 05 January 2009

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