CMJ Editor's Notes

Developing an annotated bibliography and diskography of the seminal printed and recorded works of the computer music literature will be the topic of this and the next CMJ Editor's Notes. The editor developed a draft list, and circulated it for comment. Additions and annotations to this first round were provided by (in alphabetical order) Roger Dannenberg, Giovanni DePoli, Guy Garnett F. Richard Moore, Curtis Roads, Bill Schottstaedt, and Julius Smith.

It is hoped that this list can serve as a valuable resource for the field, and that it will continue to grow, both in the references cited, and their annotations. The text of this list can be retrieved by anonymous Internet file transfer (ftp) from the directory pub/cmj on the network server ccrma-ftp.stanford.edu.

A taxonomy of our field can be informally derived from the tables of contents of the Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conferences, from Deta Davis' excellent and valuable bibliographies (see below), or from the ICMA Source Book (see below). The current outline of this bibliography is:
Music Theory and Composition with Computers
Acoustics, Psychoacoustics, and Music Perception
Mathematics and Digital Audio Signal Processing
Computer Music Software Technology
MIDI and Real-Time Event Processing
Anthologies of the Computer Music Literature
The Computer Music Library Starter Kit

A Basic Computer Music Bibliography

Music Theory and Composition with Computers

Painter, J et al. eds. 1992. "Companion to Contemporary Musical Thought." (in two volumes). London: Routledge.
A huge work with over 30 essays from the leading composers and theorists of our time; many computer-music related contributions.

Roads, C. ed. 1985. "Composers and the Computer." Madison, Wisconsin: A-R Editions.
A collection of interviews with nine of the most important composers of computer music.

Haus, G. ed. 1993. "Music Processing", A-R Editions.
Essays on computer music theory and practise by a number of experts in the field.

Emmerson, S. ed. 1986. "The Language of Electroacoustic Music." Macmillan. Composing and listening to electroacoustic music.

Barbaud, P. 1966. "Initiation a la Composition Musicale Automatique." Paris: Edition Dunod.
The formal description of this composer's algorithmic composition method; of great historical value.

Landy, L. 1990. "What's The Matter with Today's Experimental Music?" London: Harwood Academic Publishers.
The premise is that contemporary music suffers from lack of attention.

De Poli, G., A. Piccialli, and C. Roads, eds. 1991. "Representations of Musical Signals." MIT Press.
Papers on models for music synthesis, with sections on time-frequency representations, granular synthesis, physical models, architectures, and parallel distributed processing.

Howell, R., R. West, and I. Cross. 1991. "Representing Musical Structure." Academic Press.

Marsden, A. and A. Pople. 1992. "Computer Representations and Models in Music." Academic Press.
Two interesting collections covering models and knowledge representation for music, the second of which is more directly concerned with computational representations..

Baroni, M., and Callegari, L. eds. 1984. "Musical Grammars and Computer Analysis." Olschki Publishers.
Some of the papers are of only historical significance, but others are still very relevant.

Cope. D. 1991. "Computers and Musical Style."A-R Editions.
An in-depth discussion of the use of "signatures" in the author's pattern-based composition expert system in Lisp.

Acoustics, Psychoacoustics, and Music Perception

Pierce, J. R. 1992. (revised edition) "The Science of Musical Sound." W. H. Freeman.

Sundberg, J. 1992. "The Science of Musical Sounds." Academic Press. Rossing, T. D. 1990. "The Science of Sound." Addison-Wesley.
Three excellent primers on musical acoustics.

Backus, J. 1969. "The Acoustical Foundations of Music," New York: W. W. Norton and Co.

Benade, A. H. 1990 "Fundamentals of Musical Acoustics." New York: Dover Press.
The standard texts on musical issues in acoustics.

Olson, H. F. 1957. "Acoustical Engineering." Professional Audio Journals. Benson, K. B., ed. 1988. "Audio Engineering Handbook." New York: McGraw-Hill.
Two valuable recording and sound engineering text books.

Fletcher, N. H. and T. D. Rossing, 1991. "The Physics of Musical Instruments". Springer Verlag.
This is especially good for those interested in physical modeling.

Roederer, J. G. 1975. "Introduction to the Physics and Psychophysics of Music." Springer Verlag.
This one is not to be missed.

Sundberg, J. 1987. "The Science of Singing Voice." Northern Illinois University Press.
The bible of the voice.

Blauert, J. 1983. "Spatial Hearing." MIT Press.
Seminal treatment of spatial localization of sound.

Deutsch, D. 1982. "The Psychology of Music." Academic Press.
A rich collection of papers on all psychological aspects of music perception, performance, and processing.

McAdams, S. and I. Deliege. 1990. Music and the Cognitive Sciences, Harwood Academic Publishers.
A substantial collection of stimulating papers from psychologists, theorists and composers, including some concerning computer models.

Dowling, W. J., and D. L. Harwood. 1985. "Music Cognition." Academic Press.
An important work on many aspects of music perception and understanding.

Bregman, A. 1990. "Auditory Scene Analysis: The Perceptual Organization of Sound." MIT Press.
The measure of sound and music perception texts.

Handel, S. 19879. "Listening: An Introduction to the Perception of Auditory Events" MIT Press

Sundberg, J., L. Nord, and R. Carlson, eds. 1991. "Music, Language, Speech, and Brain." MacMillan Press.
This was a really great conference; not all computer music, but very good work all around.

Mathematics and Digital Audio Signal Processing

Rabiner, L., and B. Gold, 1975. "Theory and Application of Digital Signal Processing." Prentice-Hall.

Oppenheim, A.V. and R.W. Schafer, 1989. "Discrete-Time Signal Processing" Prentice Hall.
The two most-widely used texts--up-to-date versions of all of DSP. Highly-relevant signal processing technology.

Rabiner, L., and R. W. Schafer. 1978. "Digital Processing of Speech Signals." Prentice-Hall.
DSP methodology for speech signals.

Fisher, R. C., and A. D. Ziebur. 1982. "Integrated Algebra, Trigonometry and Analytic Geometry." Prentice-Hall.
A good "basic math" reference.

Strawn, J. ed. 1985. "Digital Audio Signal Processing: An Anthology," and "Digital Audio Engineering: An Anthology." A-R Editions.
Two valuable anthologies of DSP for computer music.

Pohlmann, K. 1989. "Principles of Digital Audio". Howard W Sams.

Pohlmann, K. 1991. "Advanced Digital Audio". Howard W Sams.
Introductory and intermediate texts on audio signal processing.

Markel, J. D., and A. H. Gray. 1976. "Linear Prediction of Speech." New York: Springer-Verlag.
Excellent development of lattice and ladder digital filter forms.

Computer Music Software Technology

Moore, F. R., 1990. "Elements of Computer Music." Prentice-Hall.
The best comprehensive in-depth computer music technology and software for composition, synthesis, and processing.

Mathews, M. V. 1969 " The Technology of Computer Music" Mit Press.
The standard reference for software sound synthesis in Music V.

Brinkman, A. 1990. "Pascal Programming For Music Research." University of Chicago Press.
Many programming techniques for composition and analysis.

Dodge, C. and T. A. Jerse. 1985. "Computer Music : Synthesis, Composition, and Performance." Schirmer Books.

Tarabella, L. 1992. "Informatica e Musica." Milan: G. E. Jackson.
A good introduction to hardware and software issues.

Wells, T. 1981. "The Technique of Electronic Music." New York: Schirmer Books.

Chowning, J., and D. Bristow. 1986. "FM Theory & Application." Yamaha Music Foundation.
The title says it all; a practical-thinking introduction.

Pope, S. T. ed. 1990. "The Well-Tempered Object." MIT Press.
Object-oriented software for composition, performance and DSP in Lisp, Smalltalk-80, and Objective C.

Todd, P. M., and D. G. Loy. eds. 1992. "Music and Connectionism." MIT Press.
Collected papers on neural networks for musical applications.

Balaban, M. K. Ebcioglu, and O. Laske, eds. 1992. "Understanding Music with AI: Perspectives on Music Cognition." MIT Press.
A good survey of artificial intelligence tools for music.

Buxton, W., W. Gaver, and S. Bly. 1993. "Auditory interfaces: The Use of Non-Speech Audio at the Interface." Cambridge University Press.
An important contribution to the field of "non-speech audio" in user interfaces.

Press, W., et al. 1989. "Numerical Recipes in C." Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Efficient C-language routines for all common numerical algorithms

MIDI and Real-Time Event Processing

Yavelow, C. 1993. "The Macintosh Music and Sound Bible." IDG Books.
Truly biblical in scale; covers all aspects of sound and music processing on Apple Macintoshs.

Rowe, R. 1992. "Interactive Music Systems." MIT Press. (includes CD-ROM with software and sound examples)
Machine composition and performance with Cypher and other tools; the CD-ROM includes software sources in Lisp, C, Max, and Smalltalk-80.

Rothstein, J. 1991. "MIDI: A Comprehensive Introduction." A-R Editions.
Recommended as a basic introduction.

Chamberlain, H. 1987. "Musical Applications of Microprocessors." Indianapolis, Indiana: Hayden Books.
Small systems for composition and performance.

Anthologies of the Computer Music Literature

Roads, C. and J. Strawn. 1985. "Foundations of Computer Music." MIT Press.
Computer Music Journal: the first five years.

Roads, C. ed. 1989. "The Music Machine." MIT Press.
Computer Music Journal: the second five years.

Davis, D. 1990. "A Computer Music Bibliography." A-R Editions (2 volumes).
The very valuable kernel of any reference library.

Hewlett, W., and E. Selfridge-Field, eds. 1985-1992. "Directory of Computer Assisted Research in Musicology." Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities. (7 volumes).
Annual volumes surveying representations, databases, and computer applications in musicology.

Mathews, M. V., and J. R. Pierce, eds. 1989. "Current Directions in Computer Music Research." MIT Press (includes a CD of sound examples).
An intense set of papers on the research issues in the field.

Harris, C. R. and S. T. Pope. 1987. "Computer Music Association Source Book: Activities and Resources in Computer Music." International Computer Music Association.
The desktop reference of the computer-music community.

Abbott, C. ed. 1985. "Special issue on Computer Music." ACM Computing Surveys 17(2). New York: ACM Press.
Contains good overviews of many aspects of computer music.

"Proceedings of the 1977-1992 International Computer Music Conferences." San Francisco: International Computer Music Association.
A shelf-full of our literature; must-have.

Baggi, D. ed. 1992. "Readings in Computer-Generated Music." New York: IEEE Press.
Has several important articles on modern applications.

The Computer Music Library Starter Kit

Roads, C. and J. Strawn. 1985. "Foundations of Computer Music." MIT Press.

Roads, C. ed. 1989. "The Music Machine." MIT Press.

Davis, D. 1990. "A Computer Music Bibliography." A-R Editions (2 volumes).

Hewlett, W., and E. Selfridge-Field, eds. 1985-1992. "Directory of Computer Assisted Research in Musicology." Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities. (7 volumes).

"Proceedings of the 1977-1992 International Computer Music Conferences." International Computer Music Association.

Roads, C. ed. 1985. "Composers and the Computer." A-R Editions.

De Poli, G., A. Piccialli, and C. Roads, eds. 1991. "Representations of Musical Signals." MIT Press.

Pierce, J. R. 1992. (revised edition) "The Science of Musical Sound." W. H. Freeman.

Benade, A. H. 1990 "Fundamentals of Musical Acoustics." Dover Press.

Deutsch, D. 1982. "The Psychology of Music." Academic Press.

Oppenheim, A.V. and R.W. Schafer, 1989. "Discrete-Time Signal Processing" Prentice Hall.

Strawn, J. ed. 1985. "Digital Audio Signal Processing: An Anthology." A-R Editions.

Pohlmann, K. 1989. "Principles of Digital Audio". Howard W Sams.

Moore, F. R., 1990. "Elements of Computer Music." Prentice-Hall.

Rothstein, J. 1991. "MIDI: A Comprehensive Introduction." A-R Editions.

Pope, S. T. ed. 1990. "The Well-Tempered Object." MIT Press.

Todd, P. M., and D. G. Loy. eds. 1992. "Music and Connectionism." MIT Press.

Balaban, M. K. Ebcioglu, and O. Laske. 1992. "Understanding Music with AI: Perspectives on Music Cognition." MIT Press.

	Vol. 17 Issue 3 Editor's Notes	CMJ Library >
	The Basic Computer Music Library
	Stephen Travis Pope Developing an annotated bibliography and diskography of the seminal printed and recorded works of the computer music literature will be the topic of this and the next CMJ Editor's Notes. The editor developed a draft list, and circulated it for comment. Additions and annotations to this first round were provided by (in alphabetical order) Roger Dannenberg, Giovanni DePoli, Guy Garnett F. Richard Moore, Curtis Roads, Bill Schottstaedt, and Julius Smith. It is hoped that this list can serve as a valuable resource for the field, and that it will continue to grow, both in the references cited, and their annotations. The text of this list can be retrieved by anonymous Internet file transfer (ftp) from the directory pub/cmj on the network server ccrma-ftp.stanford.edu. A taxonomy of our field can be informally derived from the tables of contents of the Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conferences, from Deta Davis' excellent and valuable bibliographies (see below), or from the ICMA Source Book (see below). The current outline of this bibliography is: Music Theory and Composition with Computers Acoustics, Psychoacoustics, and Music Perception Mathematics and Digital Audio Signal Processing Computer Music Software Technology MIDI and Real-Time Event Processing Anthologies of the Computer Music Literature The Computer Music Library Starter Kit A Basic Computer Music Bibliography Music Theory and Composition with Computers Painter, J et al. eds. 1992. "Companion to Contemporary Musical Thought." (in two volumes). London: Routledge. A huge work with over 30 essays from the leading composers and theorists of our time; many computer-music related contributions. Roads, C. ed. 1985. "Composers and the Computer." Madison, Wisconsin: A-R Editions. A collection of interviews with nine of the most important composers of computer music. Haus, G. ed. 1993. "Music Processing", A-R Editions. Essays on computer music theory and practise by a number of experts in the field. Emmerson, S. ed. 1986. "The Language of Electroacoustic Music." Macmillan. Composing and listening to electroacoustic music. Barbaud, P. 1966. "Initiation a la Composition Musicale Automatique." Paris: Edition Dunod. The formal description of this composer's algorithmic composition method; of great historical value. Landy, L. 1990. "What's The Matter with Today's Experimental Music?" London: Harwood Academic Publishers. The premise is that contemporary music suffers from lack of attention. De Poli, G., A. Piccialli, and C. Roads, eds. 1991. "Representations of Musical Signals." MIT Press. Papers on models for music synthesis, with sections on time-frequency representations, granular synthesis, physical models, architectures, and parallel distributed processing. Howell, R., R. West, and I. Cross. 1991. "Representing Musical Structure." Academic Press. Marsden, A. and A. Pople. 1992. "Computer Representations and Models in Music." Academic Press. Two interesting collections covering models and knowledge representation for music, the second of which is more directly concerned with computational representations.. Baroni, M., and Callegari, L. eds. 1984. "Musical Grammars and Computer Analysis." Olschki Publishers. Some of the papers are of only historical significance, but others are still very relevant. Cope. D. 1991. "Computers and Musical Style."A-R Editions. An in-depth discussion of the use of "signatures" in the author's pattern-based composition expert system in Lisp. Acoustics, Psychoacoustics, and Music Perception Pierce, J. R. 1992. (revised edition) "The Science of Musical Sound." W. H. Freeman. Sundberg, J. 1992. "The Science of Musical Sounds." Academic Press. Rossing, T. D. 1990. "The Science of Sound." Addison-Wesley. Three excellent primers on musical acoustics. Backus, J. 1969. "The Acoustical Foundations of Music," New York: W. W. Norton and Co. Benade, A. H. 1990 "Fundamentals of Musical Acoustics." New York: Dover Press. The standard texts on musical issues in acoustics. Olson, H. F. 1957. "Acoustical Engineering." Professional Audio Journals. Benson, K. B., ed. 1988. "Audio Engineering Handbook." New York: McGraw-Hill. Two valuable recording and sound engineering text books. Fletcher, N. H. and T. D. Rossing, 1991. "The Physics of Musical Instruments". Springer Verlag. This is especially good for those interested in physical modeling. Roederer, J. G. 1975. "Introduction to the Physics and Psychophysics of Music." Springer Verlag. This one is not to be missed. Sundberg, J. 1987. "The Science of Singing Voice." Northern Illinois University Press. The bible of the voice. Blauert, J. 1983. "Spatial Hearing." MIT Press. Seminal treatment of spatial localization of sound. Deutsch, D. 1982. "The Psychology of Music." Academic Press. A rich collection of papers on all psychological aspects of music perception, performance, and processing. McAdams, S. and I. Deliege. 1990. Music and the Cognitive Sciences, Harwood Academic Publishers. A substantial collection of stimulating papers from psychologists, theorists and composers, including some concerning computer models. Dowling, W. J., and D. L. Harwood. 1985. "Music Cognition." Academic Press. An important work on many aspects of music perception and understanding. Bregman, A. 1990. "Auditory Scene Analysis: The Perceptual Organization of Sound." MIT Press. The measure of sound and music perception texts. Handel, S. 19879. "Listening: An Introduction to the Perception of Auditory Events" MIT Press Sundberg, J., L. Nord, and R. Carlson, eds. 1991. "Music, Language, Speech, and Brain." MacMillan Press. This was a really great conference; not all computer music, but very good work all around. Mathematics and Digital Audio Signal Processing Rabiner, L., and B. Gold, 1975. "Theory and Application of Digital Signal Processing." Prentice-Hall. Oppenheim, A.V. and R.W. Schafer, 1989. "Discrete-Time Signal Processing" Prentice Hall. The two most-widely used texts--up-to-date versions of all of DSP. Highly-relevant signal processing technology. Rabiner, L., and R. W. Schafer. 1978. "Digital Processing of Speech Signals." Prentice-Hall. DSP methodology for speech signals. Fisher, R. C., and A. D. Ziebur. 1982. "Integrated Algebra, Trigonometry and Analytic Geometry." Prentice-Hall. A good "basic math" reference. Strawn, J. ed. 1985. "Digital Audio Signal Processing: An Anthology," and "Digital Audio Engineering: An Anthology." A-R Editions. Two valuable anthologies of DSP for computer music. Pohlmann, K. 1989. "Principles of Digital Audio". Howard W Sams. Pohlmann, K. 1991. "Advanced Digital Audio". Howard W Sams. Introductory and intermediate texts on audio signal processing. Markel, J. D., and A. H. Gray. 1976. "Linear Prediction of Speech." New York: Springer-Verlag. Excellent development of lattice and ladder digital filter forms. Computer Music Software Technology Moore, F. R., 1990. "Elements of Computer Music." Prentice-Hall. The best comprehensive in-depth computer music technology and software for composition, synthesis, and processing. Mathews, M. V. 1969 " The Technology of Computer Music" Mit Press. The standard reference for software sound synthesis in Music V. Brinkman, A. 1990. "Pascal Programming For Music Research." University of Chicago Press. Many programming techniques for composition and analysis. Dodge, C. and T. A. Jerse. 1985. "Computer Music : Synthesis, Composition, and Performance." Schirmer Books. Tarabella, L. 1992. "Informatica e Musica." Milan: G. E. Jackson. A good introduction to hardware and software issues. Wells, T. 1981. "The Technique of Electronic Music." New York: Schirmer Books. Chowning, J., and D. Bristow. 1986. "FM Theory & Application." Yamaha Music Foundation. The title says it all; a practical-thinking introduction. Pope, S. T. ed. 1990. "The Well-Tempered Object." MIT Press. Object-oriented software for composition, performance and DSP in Lisp, Smalltalk-80, and Objective C. Todd, P. M., and D. G. Loy. eds. 1992. "Music and Connectionism." MIT Press. Collected papers on neural networks for musical applications. Balaban, M. K. Ebcioglu, and O. Laske, eds. 1992. "Understanding Music with AI: Perspectives on Music Cognition." MIT Press. A good survey of artificial intelligence tools for music. Buxton, W., W. Gaver, and S. Bly. 1993. "Auditory interfaces: The Use of Non-Speech Audio at the Interface." Cambridge University Press. An important contribution to the field of "non-speech audio" in user interfaces. Press, W., et al. 1989. "Numerical Recipes in C." Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Efficient C-language routines for all common numerical algorithms MIDI and Real-Time Event Processing Yavelow, C. 1993. "The Macintosh Music and Sound Bible." IDG Books. Truly biblical in scale; covers all aspects of sound and music processing on Apple Macintoshs. Rowe, R. 1992. "Interactive Music Systems." MIT Press. (includes CD-ROM with software and sound examples) Machine composition and performance with Cypher and other tools; the CD-ROM includes software sources in Lisp, C, Max, and Smalltalk-80. Rothstein, J. 1991. "MIDI: A Comprehensive Introduction." A-R Editions. Recommended as a basic introduction. Chamberlain, H. 1987. "Musical Applications of Microprocessors." Indianapolis, Indiana: Hayden Books. Small systems for composition and performance. Anthologies of the Computer Music Literature Roads, C. and J. Strawn. 1985. "Foundations of Computer Music." MIT Press. Computer Music Journal: the first five years. Roads, C. ed. 1989. "The Music Machine." MIT Press. Computer Music Journal: the second five years. Davis, D. 1990. "A Computer Music Bibliography." A-R Editions (2 volumes). The very valuable kernel of any reference library. Hewlett, W., and E. Selfridge-Field, eds. 1985-1992. "Directory of Computer Assisted Research in Musicology." Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities. (7 volumes). Annual volumes surveying representations, databases, and computer applications in musicology. Mathews, M. V., and J. R. Pierce, eds. 1989. "Current Directions in Computer Music Research." MIT Press (includes a CD of sound examples). An intense set of papers on the research issues in the field. Harris, C. R. and S. T. Pope. 1987. "Computer Music Association Source Book: Activities and Resources in Computer Music." International Computer Music Association. The desktop reference of the computer-music community. Abbott, C. ed. 1985. "Special issue on Computer Music." ACM Computing Surveys 17(2). New York: ACM Press. Contains good overviews of many aspects of computer music. "Proceedings of the 1977-1992 International Computer Music Conferences." San Francisco: International Computer Music Association. A shelf-full of our literature; must-have. Baggi, D. ed. 1992. "Readings in Computer-Generated Music." New York: IEEE Press. Has several important articles on modern applications. The Computer Music Library Starter Kit Roads, C. and J. Strawn. 1985. "Foundations of Computer Music." MIT Press. Roads, C. ed. 1989. "The Music Machine." MIT Press. Davis, D. 1990. "A Computer Music Bibliography." A-R Editions (2 volumes). Hewlett, W., and E. Selfridge-Field, eds. 1985-1992. "Directory of Computer Assisted Research in Musicology." Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities. (7 volumes). "Proceedings of the 1977-1992 International Computer Music Conferences." International Computer Music Association. Roads, C. ed. 1985. "Composers and the Computer." A-R Editions. De Poli, G., A. Piccialli, and C. Roads, eds. 1991. "Representations of Musical Signals." MIT Press. Pierce, J. R. 1992. (revised edition) "The Science of Musical Sound." W. H. Freeman. Benade, A. H. 1990 "Fundamentals of Musical Acoustics." Dover Press. Deutsch, D. 1982. "The Psychology of Music." Academic Press. Oppenheim, A.V. and R.W. Schafer, 1989. "Discrete-Time Signal Processing" Prentice Hall. Strawn, J. ed. 1985. "Digital Audio Signal Processing: An Anthology." A-R Editions. Pohlmann, K. 1989. "Principles of Digital Audio". Howard W Sams. Moore, F. R., 1990. "Elements of Computer Music." Prentice-Hall. Rothstein, J. 1991. "MIDI: A Comprehensive Introduction." A-R Editions. Pope, S. T. ed. 1990. "The Well-Tempered Object." MIT Press. Todd, P. M., and D. G. Loy. eds. 1992. "Music and Connectionism." MIT Press. Balaban, M. K. Ebcioglu, and O. Laske. 1992. "Understanding Music with AI: Perspectives on Music Cognition." MIT Press. Rowe, R. 1992. "Interactive Music Systems." MIT Press. Comments and extensions are invited.