title: Measured Tones, The Interplay of Physics and Music
author:  Ian H. Johnston 
description: "It should be a necessary purchase for every physicist who is interested in music and by every musician who is interested in science; it is written to be understood by both." -- <i>- Australian Physicist, Oct 1990</i>
zlib_text: Tuning, Timbre, Spectrum, Scale
  
  William A. Sethares
  Tuning, Timbre,
  Spectrum, Scale
  Second Edition
  With 149 Figures
  
  William A. Sethares, Ph.D.
  Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
  University of Wisconsin–Madison
  1415 Johnson Drive
  Madison, WI 53706-1691
  USA
  British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
  Sethares, William A., 1955–
  Tuning, timbre, spectrum, scale.—2nd ed.
  1. Sound
  2. Tuning
  3. Tone color (Music)
  4. Musical intervals
  and scales
  5. Psychoacoustics
  6.
  Music—Acoustics and
  physics
  I. Title
  781.2′3
  ISBN 1852337974
  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
  Sethares, William A., 1955–
  Tuning, timbre, spectrum, scale / William A. Sethares.
  p. cm.
  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  ISBN 1-85233-797-4 (alk. paper)
  1. Sound.
  2. Tuning.
  3. Tone color (Music)
  4. Musical intervals and scales.
  5. Psychoacoustics.
  6. Music—Acoustics and physics.
  I. Title.
  QC225.7.S48 2004
  534—dc22
  2004049190
  Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of research or