Hi All,

The Phil Winsor books Dave refers to are:

Automated Music Composition
Phil Winsor
ISBN 0-929398-38-6

This book has many BASIC algorithms that are useful in automated
composition with later programs outputting data in a format to be used
by MusicSculptor. (a program written by Phil)  The programs could be
easily changed to output csound or standard midi file data. 

Computer Music in C
Phil Winsor and Gene Delisa
ISBN 0-8306-3677-4

This book has many C algorithms that are useful in automated
composition.

I believe both these books are out of print and the companion software
disks are no longer available from the publisher.

I contacted Phil Winsor at the University of North Texas over a year
ago.  At the time he was negotiating with a company to get his stuff
republished.  I don't know what has happened since as I didn't follow
up on it.

Cybernetic Music
Jaxitron
ISBN 0-8306-1856-2

Warning this books code is in APL.  I have only glanced at it as I do
not understand APL at all and APL isn't easy to understand, at least
for me it isn't.  I picked it up cheap at a used book store.  I
believe this book is also out of print, copyright is 1985.

A more recent book is 
A programmers guide to sound
Tim Kientzle.
ISBN 0-201-41972-6

This book is full of c++ code - MIDI, various sound file formats, FFT,
sine wave generation...  basics are covered.  The code is supposed to
be portable to PC,MAC and UNIX O/Ss

Chris


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