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Schubert Song on Record

Sound analysis software

Recommended:

FreeRip (extracts tracks from CD and converts to WAV format for editing)

Audacity (free and increasingly capable sound editor, now with markup and spectrum display: use it to save extracts for study in the early version of Spectrogram, or to convert sample rates for Sforzando, or to compile sound examples)

Sonic Visualiser (free sound analysis package including waveforms, annotation and text layers, spectrum analyser, export and import of data and graphs, harmonic cursor, etc; likely to be your main software tool)

Online introduction to Sonic Visualiser

PRAAT (free sound analysis package similar to Sonic Visualiser with worse display but better melody and loudness data extraction)

Spectrogram (spectrum analyser with top quality display and readouts but no markup or data extraction: shareware) -- [direct download of earlier version -- only analyzes small extracts, 254Kb]

Other useful software:

Exact Audio Copy (make WAV or MP3 files from CD tracks)

Alex Galembo's Hertz-Cents-Semitones converter (calculates difference between two frequencies: useful for measuring vibrato)

Metromon (plays any frequency: useful aid to reading spectrograms)

Frequencies for equal-tempered scale (helps you to convert frequency readouts to pitch identifiers)

Revive (recovers files you wish you hadn't deleted)

Links:

Links to Audio Spectrum Analysis Resources

Wide selection of other sound software

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