Chapter 1: Past sounds
Details of the sound of the early universe may be found here: 〈http://www.astro.virginia.edu/~dmw8f/BBA_web/index_frames.html〉; the history of acoustics is detailed in Dayton Clarence Miller, Anecdotal History of the Science of Sound to the Beginning of the 20th Century (Macmillan, 1935) and Robert T. Beyer, Sounds of Our Times: Two Hundred Years of Acoustics (Springer, 1999).Further historical material is in: David Hendy, Noise: A Human History of Sound and Listening (Profile Books, 2014). The acoustics of Epidaurus are explained at: 〈http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070319/full/news070319-16.html〉. The most recent edition of R. Murray Schafer’s classic book on soundscapes is Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World (Destiny Books, 1994). The Attali material is from Mark M. Smith (ed.) Hearing History: A Reader (University of Georgia Press, 2004). Alain Corbin’s classic work (translated by Martin Thom), is Village Bells: The Culture of the Senses in the Nineteenth-Century French Countryside (Columbia University Press, 1998).
‘simultaneously a physical environment and a way of perceiving that environment’, Emily Thompson, The Soundscape of Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America, 1900–1933 (MIT Press, 2002), p. 1.
Chapter 2: The nature of sound
Most of the material here may be found in Thomas D. Rossing, Richard F. Moore, and Paul A. Wheeler, The Science of Sound (Addison Wesley, 2001) and Daniel R. Raichel, The Science and Applications of Acoustics (Springer, 2006). Most cultural references are from Jonathan Sterne, The Sound Studies Reader (Routledge, 2012).
Chapter 3: Sounds in harmony
Material from this chapter is from Neville H. Fletcher and Thomas D. Rossing, The Physics of Musical Instruments (Springer, 2008), Daniel J. Levitin, This is Your Brain on Music: Understanding a Human Obsession (Atlantic Books, 2008), John Powell, How Music Works: A Listener’s Guide to Harmony, Keys, Broken Chords, Perfect Pitch and the Secrets of a Good Tune (Particular Books, 2010), and Eric Taylor, The AB Guide to Music Theory (Oxford University Press, 2013).