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Computer Music References

This is an annotated list of all refs from the CSound Book, in inverse chronological order.

Dodge, Charles, and Thomas A. Jerse.
Computer Music: Synthesis, Composition, and Performance. 2nd edn.
New York, NY: Schirmer, 1997.
UCSC-McH: ML 1092 D54 1985/1997
	Fabulous textbook covering the whole field, written for musicians. Chapter Four on unit generators (UG) and flow charts is particularly useful for CSound programmers.

Chadabe, Joel.
Electric Sound: The Past and Promise of Electronic Music.
Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, c1997.
UCSC-McH: ML 1380 .C43 1997
	electric sound, had to return it, cf note on thales2
	Historical review, computer music arrives in chapter 5.

Roads, Curtis.
The Computer Music Tutorial.
Cambridge. MA: MIT Press, 1996.
UCSC-McH: MT 56 R6 1996
	Everything (aso f 1996) you might want to know in one package of 1254 pages.

De Poli, Giovanni, Aldo Piccialli, and Curtis Roads, eds.
Representation of Mucisal Signals. 
Cambridge. MA: MIT Press, 1991.
UCSC-McH: ML 74 .R46 1991
	Collection of rather techy articles by the editors and 16 others.

Roads, Curtis, and John Strawn, eds.
Foundations of Computer Music.
Cambridge. MA: MIT Press, 1985.
UCSC-McH: ML 1092 F7 1985
	Lots (36) of techy contributions on sound synthesis techniques, hardware, and software systems.

Pierce, John R.
The Science of Musical Sound.
San Francisco, CA: W. H. Freeman, 1983.
UCSC-McH: ML 3807 P5 1983
	Fabulous introduction to the physics of sound for a general audience. Appendix F, Computer Generation of Sound, provides an understanding of CSound in six pages.

Mathews, Max.
The Technology of Computer Music.
Cambridge. MA: MIT Press, 1969.
UCSC-McH: MT 41 M38
	Mathews pioneered computer music in 1961 with his program, Music I. This book contains a technical introduction to digital sound synthesis, the unit generator (UG) approach found in CSound and many other music programs, and a user manual for Music V. CSound evolved, in fact. from Music V.

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