Recommended Supplemental Reading

The references below can be used to extend the scope of this course, particularly if you have signed up for a fourth-unit project.

• See Bibliography: Audio Spectral Modeling for a rather large list of references related to the topics within Music 421. This list (also available as Appendix P of the text), can provide a starting-point for your project work, if any.

• Audio Representations for Data Compression and Compressed Domain Processing -- Ph.D Thesis of Scott Levine, a CCRMA/EE graduate. (Available from his website.)

• A. Papoulis, Signal Analysis, McGraw-Hill, 1977. This book goes into more detail about some of the more esoteric mathematical signal processing topics touched upon in the lectures, such as prolate spheroidal wave functions, the Poisson summation formula, properties of band-limited signals, and so on.

• R. Bracewell. The Fourier Transform and its Applications, McGraw-Hill, 1965. (You should have at least one basic reference textbook on the Fourier Transform.)

• Curtis Roads, The Computer Music Tutorial, The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1996. This 1234-page book contains extensive coverage of recent research and practice in computer music -- it's the next best thing to a complete set of Computer Music Journals (CMJ) and International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) Proceedings.

• Richard Boulanger, ed., The Csound Book: Perspectives in Software Synthesis, Sound Design, Signal Processing, and Programming, The MIT Press, March 2000. If you use CSound, this is a rich resource put together by a large number of experienced contributors.

• F. Richard Moore, Elements of Computer Music, Prentice Hall, 1990.