Computer Music Tutorial

Name: Computer Music Tutorial
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ISBN: 9780262680820

ISBN-10: 0262680823

ISBN-13: 9780262680820

Edition: 1996

Authors: Curtis Roads

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The Computer Music Tutorial is a comprehensive text and reference that covers all aspects of computer music, including digital audio, synthesis techniques, signal processing, musical input devices, performance software, editing systems, algorithmic composition, MIDI, synthesizer architecture, system interconnection, and psychoacoustics. A special effort has been made to impart an appreciation for the rich history behind current activities in the field. Profusely illustrated and exhaustively referenced and cross-referenced, The Computer Music Tutorial provides a step-by-step introduction to the entire field of computer music techniques. Written for nontechnical as well as technical readers,…

Book details

List price: $95.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 2/27/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 1256
Size: 7.88" wide x 10.00" long x 2.23" tall
Weight: 5.544
Language: English

Curtis Roads is Associate Professor of Media Arts and Technology, with a joint appointment in the Department of Music, at the University of California, Santa Barbara.



Foreword: New Music and Science



Preface


Acknowledgments



Fundamental Concepts Overview to Part I



Digital Audio Concepts




Music Systems Programming




Sound Synthesis Overview to Part II



Introduction to Digital Sound Synthesis




Sampling and Additive Synthesis



Multiple Wavetable, Wave Terrain, Granular, and Subtractive Synthesis



Modulation Synthesis



Physical Modeling and Formant Synthesis



Waveform Segment, Graphic, and Stochastic Synthesis



Mixing and Signal Processing Overview to Part III



Sound Mixing



Basic Concepts of Signal Processing



Sound Spatialization and Reverberation



Sound Analysis Overview to Part IV



Pitch and Rhythm Recognition



Spectrum Analysis



The Musician's Interface Overview to Part V



Musical Input Devices



Performance Software



Music Editors



Music Languages



Algorithmic Composition Systems



Representations and Strategies for Algorithmic Composition



Internals and Interconnections Overview to Part VI



Internals of Digital Signal Processors



MIDI



System Interconnections



Psychoacoustics Overview to Part VII



Psychoacoustics in Computer Music



Appendix


Fourier Analysis


Curtis Roads and Philip Greenspun


References


Name Index


Subject Index