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Making Music on Your PC by Victoria Camp Paperback - 348 pages Book & CD-ROM Edition (July 1997) PC Music is written for beginners who want to learn how to make and play music on their PC, with or without a boost from the Internet. It's for those who want to play as well as for those who need to know about business applications for sound, such as embedding music in presentation documents. The CD-ROM contains a one-minute sound track for sampling, plus shareware music utilities. |
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Computer Music :
Synthesis, Composition, and Performance by Charles Dodge, Thomas A. Jerse Paperback 2nd edition (July 1997) Preserving the organization of the first edition, Computer Music, second edition, is otherwise completely rewritten to reflect the current state of the relationship between computer technology and music composition. Emphasizing the basics of computers, digital audio, and psychoacoustics, the new edition serves as a through introduction to the hardware and software, as well as a readable primer on theories of sound production and acoustics. The authors offer clear, practical overviews of programming languages, the Macintosh and the PC platforms, real-time synthesizers, speech-synthesis, digital filtering, artificial intelligence, and much moreall with the goal of providing students and professionals with an ideal sourcebook and textbook for electronic composition. Charles Dodge is visiting professor of music at Dartmouth College. Thomas Jerse is a principal engineer with the Boeing Defense and Space Group and former technical director of the Center for Electronic Music at Brooklyn College. |
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Sound Synthesis and
Sampling by Martin Russ, Francis Rumsey (Editor) Paperback - 400 pages (October 1996) Sound Synthesis and Sampling is all about the principles of electronic musical instruments. It provides a comprehensive introduction to all the most common forms of analog and digital sound synthesis, as well as covering many of the less commonly encountered techniques used in research and academia. Written in an almost entirely non-mathematical fashion, and extensively illustrated with clear diagrams, this book will make an ideal reference for students of music technology, audio engineering and acoustics, as well as for enthusiasts, musicians, engineers and multimedia specialists. Questions are provided at the ends of chapters for revision purposes, and a substantial glossary explains a wide range of related terms. Time-lines show key events in the history of synthesis and examples are given of commercial products that employ the technology described. |
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