EMUSIC-L Digest Volume 40, Issue 17 This issue's topics: EMUSIC Bibliography (part 1 of 3) Your EMUSIC-L Digest moderator is Joe McMahon . You may subscribe to EMUSIC-L by sending mail to listserv@american.edu with the line "SUB EMUSIC-L your name" as the text. The EMUSIC-L archive is a service of SunSite (sunsite.unc.edu) at the University of North Carolina. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 May 1992 15:57:57 GMT From: Piet van Oostrum Subject: Re: Recommended books This is a bibliography on synthesizers, midi, computer and electronic music that I have collected from various sources. I have tried to bring some structure into it, but not all books will fit into a single subject. NOTE: I haven't read these books, and the comments are from other people. On some of them I lost the original commentor's name. Sorry about that. If you have additions or correction to this information, please mail me. The latest version of this file can be obtained by ftp from archive.cs.ruu.nl [131.211.80.5] in MIDI/DOC/bibliography or by mail from mail-server@cs.ruu.nl (send a message with HELP in the body). ------------------------------ MIDI ------------------------------ Title: Computer music in C / Phil Winsor & Gene DeLisa. Publisher: Blue Ridge Summit, PA : TAB Books (Windcrest label), c1991. Subjects: Computer sound processing. Computer composition. C (Computer program language) Midi programming ISBN: 0-8306-3637-4 (p) : $22.95 It has a C source disk for the PC available for $25. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Title: Mind over MIDI / edited by Dominic Milano ; by the editors of Keyboard magazine. Publisher: Milwaukee, WI : H. Leonard Books, c1987. Series Name: The Keyboard magazine basic library Other Series Names: Keyboard synthesizer library. Subjects: MIDI (Standard) Computer sound processing. ISBN: 0-88188-551-7 (pbk.) : $12.95 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Title: MIDI- und sound-buch zum Atari ST. English Title: MIDI and sound book for the Atari ST / Bernd Enders and Wolfgang Klemme. Publisher: Redwood City, Calif. : M & T Pub., c1989. Subjects: Computer music--Instruction and study. Computer sound processing. MIDI (Standard) Atari ST computers--Programming. ISBN: 1-55851-042-7 : $17.95 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Atari ST Introduction to MIDI Programming Len Dorfman and Dennis Young ISBN 0-916439-77-1 Bantam Books,Inc. 666 5th Avenue New York,New York 10103 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Title: Music through MIDI : using MIDI to create your own electronic music system / Michael Boom. Publisher: Redmond, Wash. : Microsoft Press, c1987. Subjects: MIDI (Standard) Subjects: Musical instruments, Electronic. Subjects: Electronic music--Instruction and study. Subjects: Computer sound processing. ISBN: 1-55615-026-1 (pbk.) : $19.95 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Title: The MIDI drummer : by a drummer for a drummer-- / by David Crigger. Publisher: Newbury Park, CA : Alexander Pub., c1987. Subjects: Electronic percussion instruments--Instruction and study. MIDI (Standard) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Title: MIDI for guitarists / by Bob Ward and Marty Cutler ; Publisher: London ; New York : Amsco Publications ; New York, NY, USA : Exclusive distributors Music Sales Corp., c1988. Subjects: Electric guitar--Instruction and study. MIDI (Standard) ISBN: 0-8256-1126-1 (U.S.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Title: MIDI for musicians / by Craig Anderton. Publisher: New York : Amsco Publications, c1986. Subjects: MIDI (Standard) Computer sound processing. ISBN: 0-8256-1050-8 (pbk.) ISBN: 0-8256-2214-X (pbk. : cover) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Title: MIDI guitar : a complete applications directory for the modern guitarist / [by Rey Sanchez ; forward [sic] by Randy Bernsen]. Publisher: Miami, FL : CPP/Belwin, c1988. Subjects: MIDI (Standard) Computer sound processing. Electric guitar. ISBN: 0-89898-544-7 : $15.95 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Title: Midi guitar and synthesis : the basics of guitar synthesis / by Paul Youngblood. Publisher: Milwaukee, WI : H. Leonard Pub. Co., c1989. Subjects: MIDI (Standard) Computer sound processing. Electric guitar. ISBN: 0-88188-886-9 : $14.95 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Title: The MIDI home studio / by Howard Massey. Publisher: London ; New York : Amsco Publications ; New York, NY, USA : Music Sales Corp. [distributor], c1988. ISBN: 0-8256-1127-X (U.S.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Title: The MIDI manual / David Miles Huber. Publisher: Carmel, Ind., USA : Howard W. Sams, c1991. ISBN: 0-672-22757-6, 250pp. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Title: The MIDI programmer's handbook / Steve De Furia and Joe Scacciaferro, Ferro Technologies. Publisher: Redwood City, Calif. : M&T Pub., c1989. ISBN: 1-55851-068-0, 250 pp. Paperback. $24.95 Mix Bookshelf part # 3539C New, advanced MIDI desk reference is perfect for programmers and MIDI power users. The heart of the book is a summary and explanation of every MIDI command, in hex, binary, decimal and English. Also features detailed discussion of software design concerns, synchronization formats, MTC, sample dump, MIDI files and system exclusive processing. It discusses writing software to handle MIDI information at the application level. In other words, they assume you have already written or otherwise obtained access to the necessary code to talk to your hardware to send and receive the MIDI data. This approach frees the entire discussion from being tied to any particular hardware or programming approach. Instead, it spends its time on that which is valuable to the experienced programmer. Issues such as MIDI file format, timing (SMPTE, MTC, etc), parsing MIDI data and processing it, MIDI sample dump standard, etc. are all handled in fine detail. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE MIDI IMPLEMENTATION BOOK, Defuria & Scacciaferro Contains complete documentation of MIDI commands implemented by more than 200 instruments. This data has come directly from hardware manufacturers and allows you to find MIDI functions of specific instruments, compare features of similar instruments and choose equipment to meet specific applications. A standard, one-page implementation chart is used for each product. 1986, 216 pp. $19.95 Mix Bookshelf, 1-800-233-9604 (US & Canada). Doesn't say who publishes it, and its terribly out-dated (1986), but they might have published another addition by now. The MIDI System Exclusive Book by Steve De Furia and Joe Scacciaferra, Third Earth Productions, Pompton Lakesm N.J. Distributed by Hal Leonard Books. Sorry no ISBN The MIDI Resource Book. Same guys. ISBN 0-88188-587-8 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Title: MIDI programming for the Macintosh / Steve De Furia and Joe Scacciaferro. Publisher: Redwood City, CA : M&T Books, 1988. Subjects: MIDI (Standard) Computer sound processing. Macintosh (Computer)--Programming. ISBN: 1-55851-021-4 : $22.95 ISBN: 1-55851-022-2 (book & disk) : $39.95 ISBN: 1-55851-023-0 (disk) : $20.00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Title: C Programming for MIDI / Jim Conger. Publisher: Redwood City, Calif. : M&T Books, 1989. 501 Galveston Drive Redwood City, CA 94063 Subjects: MIDI, C, sequencing This book shows how to use the basic features of an MPU-401 interface. Includes a disk with MS-DOS code. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Title: MIDI sequencing in C / Jim Conger. Publisher: Redwood City, Calif. : M&T Books, 1989. 501 Galveston Drive Redwood City, CA 94063 Subjects: MIDI (Standard) C (Computer program language) Sequential processing (Computer science) ISBN: 1-55851-045-1 (book) : $24.95 ISBN: 1-55851-047-8 (disk) : $20.00 ISBN: 1-55851-046-X (set) : $39.95 This book continues where the provious one lefts off. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Title: MIDI systems and control / Francis Rumsey. Publisher: London ; Boston : Focal Press, 1990. Subjects: MIDI (Standard) Computer sound processing. ISBN: 0-240-51300-2 : $14.95 (U.S.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Title: MIDI, the ins, outs & thrus / by Jeff Rona ; edited by Ronny S. Schiff. Publisher: Milwaukee, Wis. : H. Leonard Books, c1987. Notes: "A complete guide to the understanding, use, and buying of MIDI instruments"--Cover. Subjects: MIDI (Standard) Computer sound processing. ISBN: 0-88188-560-6 (pbk.) : $12.95 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Joseph Rothstein, _MIDI: A Comprehensive Introduction_ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Microsoft Press put out a book on midi programming. I think that this is rather a weak book, but it might serve as an introduction for non-computer folk. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Several other books are out that were written by musicians. They are interesting as a intro to using midi, but contain a dearth of info from my perspective. As a programmer, I have the wrong perspective to sort these out. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Real Time MIDI performance interfaces Dannenberg, "...computer accompaniment..." ICMC87, ICMC85(??) (maybe "Bloch and Dannenberg", don't have it handy) X. Chabot ?? ------------------------------ SYNTHESIS ------------------------------ Title: Build a better music synthesizer / Thomas Henry. Publication Info: Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Tab Books, c1987. Subjects: Synthesizer (Musical instrument)--Construction.6 ISBN: 0-8306-0255-0 : $17.95 ISBN: 0-8306-2755-3 (pbk.) : $11.45 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Musical Applications of Microprocessors Hal Chamberlin ISBN 0-8104-5773-3 1980, still in print. I have seen two editions: mine from the early 80's, and a hardback that my friend has from the late 80's. His has 68000 assember for an FFT routine. Hayden Book Company, Inc. Hasbrouck Heights, NJ Rochelle Park, NJ This covers analog and digital sound synthesis from an experimenter's perspective, not much math, lots of algorithms and circuits. If you want to solder and program in your garage and make lots of weird sounds, this is the bible. Lots of BASIC programs, but they're very short, just to demonstrate algorithms. It's a few years old now and the electronic devices used in the book are dated, but the explanations and principles are still valid. It discusses things such as real time synthesis, play back of stored soundwaves, sampling, running multiple D-As in parallel, software for computing soundwaves (it even covers Fast Fourier Transforms) and more. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Title: Computer music : synthesis, composition, and performance / Charles Dodge, Thomas A. Jerse. Publisher: New York : Schirmer Books, c1985. Subjects: Computer music--Instruction and study. Computer composition. ISBN: 0-02-873100-X ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Moore, F. Richard. Elements of Computer Music. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1990. $38.00 + $4.00 shipping UPS surface ISBN: 0-13252-552-6 Lots of stuff on software synthesis, and more, all centered around cmusic ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This book is very well "A syntesist's Guide to Acoustic Instruments" Amsco Publications,New York, 1987 author: H.Massey I found the Howard Massey "Sysnthesists Guide to Acoustic Instruments" to be a pretty good book for general synthesizer knowledge, mostly because it doesn't try to explain the specifics of a synth. ...David Elliott ...dce@smsc.sony.com | ...!{uunet,mips}!sonyusa!dce ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Schottstaedt, Bill. "The Simulation of Natural Instrument Tones Using Frequency Modulation with a Complex Modulating Wave." Computer Music Journal 1, 4 (1977): 46-50. also in: Roads, Curtis and John Strawn, ed.The Foundations of Computer Music. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1985. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ J. Chowning "The Synthesis of Complex Audio Spectra by Means of Frequency Modulation" J. Audio Eng. Soc. 21, no. 7 (1973):526-534 [This is the standard reference.] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ J. Chowning and D. Bristow "FM Theory and Applications by Musicians for Musicians" Yamaha Music Foundation, Tokyo, 1986 ISBN 4-636-17482-8 [Could be difficult to find.] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Marc LeBrun "A derivation of the Spectrum of FM with a Complex Modulating Wave." Computer Music Journal Volume 1, Number 4. 1977, pages 51-52. Also in Roads and Strawn, Foundations of Computer Music. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Marc LeBrun "Digital Waveshaping Synthesis" Journal of the AES, 27(4), 1979: 250-266 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ J.A. Moorer "The synthesis of Complex Audio Spectra by Means of Discrete Summation Formulae" Music Department, Stanford U., 1975 (Report no. STAN-M-5.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Moore, F. Richard. "Table Lookup Noise for Sinusoidal Digital Oscillators." Computer Music Journal 1, 2 (1977): 26-29. Reprinted in Curtis Roads, ed. _Foundations of Computer Music_ (MIT Press, 1985). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Chareyron, J. "Digital Synthesis of Self-modifying Waveforms by Means of Linear Automata", Computer Music Journal, Vol 14 No. 4, 1990. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Title: The synthesizer / John Bates. Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Music Dept., 1988. Series Name: Oxford topics in music Subjects: Synthesizer (Musical instrument)--Juvenile literature. Musical instruments, Electronic--Juvenile literature. Computer music--History and criticism--Juvenile literature. Synthesizer (Musical instrument) Musical instruments, Electronic. Computer music--History and criticism. ISBN: 0-19-321337-0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Title: The synthesizer and electronic keyboard handbook / David Crombie ; [foreword by Thomas Dolby]. Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1984. Subjects: Synthesizer (Musical instrument)--Instruction and study. Electronic keyboard (Synthesizer) ISBN: 0-394-72711-8 (pbk.) : $13.95 ISBN: 0-394-54084-0 : $25.00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Title: Synthesizer basics / by Dean Friedman. Publisher: New York : Amsco Publications : Exclusive distributor, Music Sales Corp., c1986. Subjects: Synthesizer (Musical instrument) ISBN: 0-8256-2409-6 (pbk.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Title: Synthesizer basics / by the editors of Keyboard magazine. Publisher: Milwaukee, WI : H. Leonard Pub. Corp., c1984. Series Name: The Keyboard synthesizer library ; v. 1 Subjects: Synthesizer (Musical instrument)--Instruction and study. Electronic music--Instruction and study. ISBN: 0-88188-289-5 (pbk.) : $8.95 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Title: Synthesizer basics / edited by Brent Hurtig from the pages of Keyboard magazine. (rev. ed) Publisher: Milwaukee, WI : H. Leonard Books, c1988. Series Name: The Keyboard magazine basic library Notes: Cover subtitle: The musician's reference for creating, performing, and recording electronic music. Subjects: Synthesizer (Musical instrument)--Instruction and study. Electronic music--Instruction and study. ISBN: 0-88188-714-5 (pbk.) : $12.95 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Title: Synthesizer orchestration : a creative approach for the arranger and synthesist includes cassette recording of musical examples / by Steve Quinzi. Publisher: Miami Fla. : Studio 224, c1987. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Title: Synthesizer programming / edited by Dominic Milano ; by the editors of Keyboard magazine. Publisher: Milwaukee, WI : Hal Leonard Books, c1987. Series Name: Keyboard synthesizer library Subjects: Synthesizer (Musical instrument) ISBN: 0-88188-550-9 (pbk.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Title: Synthesizer technique / by the editors of Keyboard magazine. Publisher: Milwaukee, WI : H. Leonard Books, c1987. Series Name: The Keyboard synthesizer library Subjects: Synthesizer (Musical instrument) ISBN: 0-88188-715-3 (pbk.) : $12.95 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Title: Casio FZ-1 & FZ-10M digital sampling synthesizer : the essential guide to practical applications / Joe Scacciaferro, Steve DeFuria. Publisher: Milwaukee, WI, USA : Hal Leonard Books, c1988. Subjects: Synthesizer (Musical instrument) ISBN: 0-88188-967-9 : $14.95 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Title: Synthesizermusik und Live-Elektronik : geschichtliche, technologische, kompositorische und padagogische Aspekte der elektronischen Musik / Gunther Batel, Dieter Salbert. Publisher: Wolfenbuttel : Moseler, c1985. Subjects: Electronic music--Instruction and study. Computer music--Instruction and study. Synthesizer (Musical instrument) ISBN: 3-7877-3534-8 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Title: Synthesizers and computers / by the editors of Keyboard magazine. Publisher: Milwaukee, WI : H. Leonard Pub. Corp., c1985. Series Name: The Keyboard synthesizer library ; v. 3 Notes: Contributions by Bob Moog and others. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Title: Synthesizers and computers / edited by Brent Hurtig. Publisher: Milwaukee, Wis. : H. Leonard Pub. Corp., c1987. Series Name: Keyboard magazine basic library Subjects: Computer music--Instruction and study. Synthesizer (Musical instrument) MIDI (Standard) ISBN: 0-88188-716-1 (pbk.) : $12.95 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Title: Electronic music: a handbook of sound synthesis & control [by] M. L. Eaton. Publisher: [Kansas City, Mo., ORCUS, 1969] Series Name: ORCUS technical publication, TP-3003 Subjects: Electro-acoustics. Electronic music--Instruction and study. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Title: Electronic music circuits / by Barry Klein. Publisher: Indianapolis, Ind. : H.W. Sams, c1982. Series Name: Blacksburg continuing education series Subjects: Synthesizer (Musical instrument)--Construction. Electronic circuits. ISBN: 0-672-21833-X (pbk.) : $16.95 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Title: Electronic music synthesizers / by Delton T. Horn. Publisher: Blue Ridge Summit, Pa. : Tab Books, c1980. Subjects: Synthesizer (Musical instrument) ISBN: 0-8306-9722-5 : $9.95 ISBN: 0-8306-1167-3 (pbk.) : $5.95 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Title: Electronic music technology / NRI. Publisher: Washington, D.C. : McGraw-Hill Continuing Education Center, c1988. Subjects: Oscillators, Electric--Programmed instruction. Musical instruments, Electronic--Programmed instruction. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Author: Kettelkamp, Larry. Title: Electronic musical instruments : what they do, how they work / Larry Kettelkamp ; foreword by Herbert Deutsch. Publisher: New York : W. Morrow, 1984. Notes: Explains the principles of electronic music, discusses the uses of such electronic instruments as oscillators, synthesizers, electronic organs, and sound processors, and gives advice on performing and recording electronic music. Subjects: Musical instruments, Electronic. Musical instruments, Electronic. Electronic music. ISBN: 0-688-02781-4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Title: The Art of electronic music / compiled by Tom Darter ; edited by Greg Armbruster. Publisher: New York : Quill, c1984. Notes: "...Edited from material originally published in Keyboard magazine from 1975 to 1983"--T.p. verso. Subjects: Electronic music--History and criticism. Musical instruments, Electronic. Synthesizer (Musical instrument) Musicians--Interviews. ISBN: 0-688-03106-4 (pbk.) : $15.95 ISBN: 0-688-03105-6 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Title: The liberation of sound : an introduction to electronic music / by Herbert Russcol ; new introduction by Otto Luening ; preface by Jacques Barzun. Publisher: New York : Da Capo Press, 1994. Series : Da Capo Press music reprint series Notes: Reprint. Originally published: Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Subjects: Electronic music--History and criticism. ISBN: 0-306-76263-3 : $35.00 [Continued in EMUSIC-L Digest Vol 51, Issue 18] ------------------------------ End of the EMUSIC-L Digest ******************************