Classical Acoustics Music Physics Maths: Get the Book You Need

[yup790]

For college we have to write a 3000 word essay on a subject so an idea I had was to firstly explain the maths/physics behind music and then break up a piece of classical music into its sine waves.

However, my acoustics knowledge is limited. Does anyone know of a good book/books that explain the physics and maths behind sound/music. Notes, scales, different instruments, chords, tempo etc. I do not yet know Fourier transforms, I understand this is probably useful so a book on that as well might be needed.

Thank you in advance.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Try this
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0071841040/?tag=pfamazon01-20

 

[martinh]

Music: a Mathematical Offering by David Benson. There is a free on-line version of the book https://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/mth192/pages/html/maths-music.html.

 

[Solomei]

http://www.roletech.net/books/HandbookAcoustics.pdf