Music 773/223: Electronic Music Literature
Bibliography
General Books
- Herbert Russcol, The Liberation of Sound. Prentice Hall, 1972.
- Elliott Schwartz, Electronic Music: A Listener’s Guide. New York, Praeger Publishers, 1973.
- Jon H. Appleton and Ronald C. Perera, The Development and Practice of Electronic Music. Prentice Hall, 1975.
- David Ernst, The Evolution of Electronic Music. New York, Schirmer Books, 1977.
- Paul Griffiths, A Guide to Electronic Music. Thames and Hudson, 1979.
- Barry Schrader, Introduction to Electro-Acoustic Music. Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Prentice-Hall, 1982.
- Simon Emmerson, Ed., The Language of Electroacoustic Music. London, Macmillan, 1986.
- Robin Julian Heifetz, Ed., On the Wires of Our Nerves: The Art of Electroacoustic Music. Cranbury, NJ, Associated University Presses, 1989.
- Joel Chadabe, Electric Sound. Prentice Hall, 1997.
- Peter Manning, Electronic and Computer Music. Oxford University Press, 2004.
Technical Books
- Charles Dodge and Thomas Jerse, Computer Music: Synthesis, Composition, and Performance. 2nd. Ed. Schirmer Books, 1997.
- Richard Boulanger, editor, The Csound Book: Perspectives on Software Synthesis, Sound Design, Signal Processing, and Programming. The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA and London, England, 2000.
- Riccardo Bianchini and Allesandro Cipriani, Virtual Sound: Sound Synthesis and Signal Processing – Theory and Practice with Csound. Contempo s.a.s., Rome, 2000. (This book is available from http://virtual-sound.com.)
- Andrew Horner and Lydia Ayers, Cooking with Csound Part 1: Woodwind and Brass Recipes. A-R Editions, Inc., Middleton, Wisconsin, 2002.
- Richard Riley, Audio Editing with Cool Edit. PC Publishing, Kent, UK, 2002.
- Curtis Roads, Microsound. MIT Press, 2002.