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| Preface | |
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| The Science of Music and the Music of Science: A Multidisciplinary Overview | |
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| The Intervening Physical Systems | |
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| Characteristic Attributes of Musical Sounds | |
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| The Time Element in Music | |
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| Physics and Psychophysics | |
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| Psychophysics and Neuroscience | |
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| Neuroscience and Informatics Condensed from Roederer (2005). | |
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| Informatics and Music: Why Is There Music? | |
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| Sound Vibrations, Pure Tones, and the Perception of Pitch | |
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| Motion and Vibration | |
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| Simple Harmonic Motion | |
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| Acoustic Vibrations and Pure Tone Sensations | |
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| Superposition of Pure Tones: First-Order Beats and the Critical Band | |
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| Other First-Order Effects: Combination Tones and Aural Harmonics | |
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| Second-Order Effects: Beats of Mistuned Consonances | |
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| Fundamental Tracking | |
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| Auditory Coding in the Peripheral Nervous System | |
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| Subjective Pitch and the Role of the Central Nervous System | |
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| Sound Waves, Acoustic Energy, and the Perception of Loudness | |
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| Elastic Waves, Force, Energy, and Power | |
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| Propagation Speed, Wavelength, and Acoustic Power | |
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| Superposition of Waves; Standing Waves | |
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| Intensity, Sound Intensity Level, and Loudness | |
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| The Loudness Perception Mechanism and Related Processes | |
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| Music from the Ears: Otoacoustic Emissions and Cochlear Mechanics | |
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| Generation of Musical Sounds, Complex Tones, and the Perception of Timber | |
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| Standing Waves in a String | |
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| Generation of Complex Standing Vibrations in String Instruments | |
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| Sound Vibration Spectra and Resonance | |
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| Standing Longitudinal Waves in an Idealized Air Column | |
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| Generation of Complex Standing Vibrations in Wind Instruments | |
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| Sound Spectra of Wind Instrument Tones | |
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| Trapping and Absorption of Sound Waves in a Closed Environment | |
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| Perception of Pitch and Timbre of Musical Tones | |
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| Neural Processes Relevant to the Perception of Musical Tones | |
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| Superposition and Successions of Complex Tones and the Integral Perception of Music | |
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| Superposition of Complex Tones | |
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| The Sensation of Musical Consonance and Dissonance | |
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| Building Musical Scales | |
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| The Standard Scale and the Standard of Pitch | |
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| Why Are There Musical Scales? | |
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| Cognitive and Affective Brain Processes in Music Perception: Why Do We Respond Emotionally to Music? | |
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| Specialization of Speech and Music Processing in the Cerebral Hemispheres | |
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| Why Is There Music? | |
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| Some Quantitative Aspects of the Bowing Mechanism | |
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| Some Quantitative Aspects of Central Pitch Processor Models | |
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| Some Remarks on Teaching Physics and Psychophysics of Music | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |