As an aside...
the best book i read about music/sound for decade is a book by a nigerian acoustician studying Yorumba talking drum and speech at his beginning ..
It was painful for him and very hard to be published his doctorate thesis about "sound sources" the title of his book, Akpan J. Essien ...Too much original and too much out of the main common walked road...
This book is astonishing, after being rejected In UK universities it was accepted at the Paris Sorbonne as thesis of the highest interest ...
Very interesting criticizing 2500 years of acoustic theory from Pythagoras to Helmholtz...
And i think he is right...hIs book tell us about the missing link in sound which is the vibrating sources and this book is not far from new hearing theory based on ecological Affordance theory as J. J. Gibson created it for the visual field and based on the non linear structure of the ears/brain working in the natural ecological niche of natural sounds perception in the time dependant domain , excluding any abstract frequencies based theory of hearing as unsifficient as explained by Magnasco and Oppenheim ... Sound sources with their qualities are as real as the physical sound waves they generated and our body is synchonized to them by our ability to produce sound with speech act or with our integral body ...
https://www.academia.edu/54667709/The_Unfounded_Foundation_of_Hearing_Sciences?auto=download