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Article: Computer Music: Synthesis, Composition, and Performance, 2d ed.
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1998 Music Library Association, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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2d ed. By Charles Dodge and Thomas A. Jerse. New York: Schirmer Books, 1007. [xv, 455 p. ISBN 0-02-864682-7. $42.]
This book is a valuable source of techniques for computer sound synthesis and sound processing. It explains the concepts that an electrical engineer or a programmer needs to know to undertake work in computer audio, and it is therefore appropriate as a reference or as a text for a college course in audio applications of digital signal processing. It would be equally useful in a music library or the library of any scientific or technical school.
It is not, however, a book that a musician without prior experience in the field will readily ...