1. Preliminaries to a study of musical acoustics p.3. -- 2. Impulsive sounds, alone and in sequence p.10. -- 3. Simple relations of sounds and motions p.25. -- 4. Characteristic frequencies and the decay of composite sounds p.37. -- 5. Pitch: the simplest musical implication of characteristic oscillations p.50. -- 6. The modes of oscillation of simple and composite systems p.73. -- 7. Introduction to vibration recipes: the plucked string p.91. -- 8. Broad hammers and plectra, soft hammers, and the stiffness of strings p.108. -- 9. The vibrations of drumheads and soundboards p.124. -- 10. Sinusoidally driven oscillations p.148. -- 11. Room acoustics I:Excitation of the modes and the transmission of impulses p.172. -- 12. Room acoustics II: the listener and the room p.197. -- 13. The loudness of single and combined sounds p.223. -- 14. The acoustical phenomena governing the musical relationships of pitch p.254. -- 15. Successive tones: reverberations, melodic relationships, and musical scales p.281. -- 16. Keyboard temperaments and tuning properties of the organ, harpsichord, and piano p.304. -- 17. Sound production in pianos p.328. -- 18. The clavichord and the harpsichord p.353. -- 19. The voice as a musical instrument p.360. -- 20. The brass wind instruments p.391. -- 21. The woodwinds: I p.430. -- 22. The woodwinds: II p.465. -- 23. The oscillations of a bowed string p.505. -- 24. Instruments of the violin family p.527. -- 25. Half-valved octaves, burrs, multiphonics, and wolf notes p.554.
