Bibliography
This bibliography covers material related to algorithmic
composition, music cognition, and machine modelling of
music, that is, texts dealing with music on a conceptual level as
opposed to the physical, technical, psycho-physical, or historical levels
and thus presents a collection which is strongly biased towards
formalistic and computer-driven theories.
Most importantly, it is incomplete and growing: it does not
represent the result of a systematic study of the field or follow a
particular research goal. It is merely a collection of literature I have
run across, read, read about, or am about to read as I wander around on
the merry meadows of music understanding: the field turns out to be too
small and general interest in it to be too young as to be indexed by the
major bibliographical reference works. As a result, appended
bibliographies in works listed here have proved to be most valuable. In
addition, the selection covers almost no material which is not available
through the Stanford University Libraries or our own Library at CCRMA and
only those references of my older bibliography list which I actually have
been able to re-examine have been annotated as of yet. However, many
entries are still unevaluated, especially among older literature.
Items in this bibliography are sorted by publication type: since
the covered research areas are rather close to one another, they do not
appear under separate headings. I expect, however, the thematic
orientation to expand and in doing so to also present selected important
or fundamental references of neighboring areas, such as computer science,
cognitive science, music history, history of music criticism, aesthetic,
or philosophy. As this process continues, entries will be additionally
ordered by a secondary thematic scheme. Abbreviations are explained in a
separate section. Library signatures are given in angle brackets, along
with a library ID.
| CCRMA |
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Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics Library,
Stanford |
| Ed. |
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Editor(s) |
| Math & Comp Sci |
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Mathematics and Computer Science Library |
| Meyer |
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Meyer Library |
| Music |
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Music Library |
| Music Recordings |
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Music Recordings Archive, Music Library |
| rev. ed. |
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Revised Edition |
| SAuL |
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Stanford Auxiliary Library |
| SUL |
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Stanford University Libraries |
- Hiller, Lejaren and Isaacson, L. M. (Ed.)
- Experimental Music; Composition with an Electronic Computer
New York, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1959
<SUL: Music MT41.H652, Meyer MT41.H58>
- Laske, Otto and Minsky, Marvin (Ed.)
- Understanding Music with AI: Perspectives on Music
Cognition
Menlo Park, California: The AAAI Press, 1992
<SUL: Music ML74.3U55 1992 MUSC>
The majority of essays in this book derive from the international
workshops on AI and music 1988 (7th AAAI Conference, St. Paul, MN)
and 1989 (11th IJCAL, Detroit, MI) and from an European workshop
1988 (St. Augustin, Germany). The seven Sections cover topics
such as views on cognitive musicology, general problems
in modeling musical activities, music composition,
analysis, performance, perception, and
learning and tutoring.
Includes an introductory conversation between Otto Laske and
Marvin Minsky.
- Roads, Curtis
- Composers and the Computer
Los Altos, California.: W. Kaufmann, 1985
<SUL: Music ML1092.C737 1985, Meyer ML1092.C65 1985>
- The Music Machine: Selected Readings from Computer Music Journal
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1989
<SUL: Music ML1093.M987 1989>
- Schwanauer, Stephan and Levitt, David A. (Ed.)
- Machine Models of Music
Cambridge, Massachussetts: The MIT Press, 1993
<SUL: Music ML74.3M149 1993 MUSC>
Includes representative models from the beginnings
of machine implementations of music to the present. The essays in
each thematic section stem mostly from the historical period in
which the specific techniques were developed and include material
on generate-and-test composition, composition
parsing, heuristic composition, generative grammars,
theories on AI and music, composition tools, and
newer developments.
- Todd, Peter M. and Loy, Gareth (Ed.)
- Music and Connectionism
Cambridge, Massachussetts: The MIT Press, c1991
<SUL: ML1093.M986 1991>
- Cope, David
- Towers
Champaign, Illinois: Media Press, c1969
<SUL: Music M1470.C782T7>
- New Directions in Music
Dubuque, Iowa: W.C. Brown Co., 1971
<SUL: Music ML197.C782>
- New Music Notation
Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Pub. Co., c1976
<SUL: Music ML431.C782>
- New Music Composition
New York, New York: Schirmer Books, c1977
<SUL: Music MT40.C782>
- Computers and Musical Style (The Computer Music and Digital
Audio Series, Vol. 6)
Madison, Wisconsin: A-R Editions, c1991
<SUL: Music/CCRMA MT723.C782 1991>
- Schillinger, Joseph
- The Schillinger System of Musical Composition
New York, New York: C. Fischer, Inc., 1941, reprint 1946
<SUL: Music MT40.S334 1946>
- The Mathematical Basis of the Arts
New York, New York: Philosophical Library, 1948
<SUL: Music/SAuL N70.S33 1946>
- Xenakis, Iannis
- Formalized Music; Thought and Mathematics in Music,
rev. ed.
Stuyvesant, New York: Pendragon Press, c1992
<SUL: Music ML3800.X5 1991>
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Snell, John et al. (Ed.)
- Computer Music Journal
Menlo Park, California: People's Computer Co., 1977-79 and
Cambridge, Massachussetts: The MIT Press, 1980-
<SUL: CCRMA ML1 C7385>
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Leman, Marc et al.(Ed.)
- Interface - Journal of New Music Research
Amsterdam, Netherlands: Swets & Zeitlinger, 1972-
<SUL: CCRMA (unlisted)>
-
?,? (Ed.)
- Leonardo Music Journal
New York, New York: Pergamon Press, 1991-
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Rahn, John (Ed.)
- Perspectives of New Music
Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, etc.: Perspectives of New Music,
Inc., etc., 1962-
<SUL: CCRMA ML5 P467>
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Beauchamp, James et al. (Ed.)
- Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference
International Computer Music Association, 1977-
<SUL: CCRMA (unlisted)>
- Ames, Charles
- "Quantifying Musical Merit"
Interface, Vol. 20, Nr. 1 (1991)
- "A Catalog of Statistical Distributions: Techniques for Transforming
Random, Determinate and Chaotic Sequences"
Leonardo Music Journal,
Vol. 1, No. 1 (1991)
- "A Catalog of Sequence Generators: Accounting for Proximity,
Pattern, Exclusion, Balance and/or Randomness"
Leonardo Music Journal,
Vol. 2, No. 1 (1992)
- "How to Level a Driver Sequence"
Leonardo Music Journal,
Vol. 3, No. 1 (1993)
- "Statistics and Compositional Balance"
Perspectives of New Music
, Vol. 23, No. 2 (1982)
- "The Markov Process as a Compositional Model: A Survey and Tutorial"
Leonardo Music Journal,
Vol. 22, No. 2 (1989)
- "Automated Composition in Retrospect: 1956-86"
Leonardo Music Journal,
Vol. 20, No. 2 (1987)
- "Tutorial on Automated Composition"
Proceedings of the International
Computer Music Conference, 1985
- Brun, Herbert
- "From Musical Ideas to Computers and Back"
In Harry B. Lincoln (Ed.), The Computer and Music
Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1970
<SUL: Music ML55.C738, Math & Comp Sci ML55.C738,
Meyer ML55.C75>
- "Infraudibles"
In Heinz v. Foerster [and] James W. Beauchamp (Ed.),
Music by Computers
New York, J. Wiley [1969]
<SUL: Music/CCRMA ML55.V946, Music Recordings Md7 12-15,
Math & Comp Sci ML55.V946, Meyer ML55.V575 M9>
- "Interview with Herbert Brun"
In C. Roads (Ed.),
Composers and the Computer
- Cope, David
- "An Expert System for Computer-Aided Composition"
Computer Music Journal,
Vol. 11, No. 4 (1987)
- "Computer Modeling of Musical Intelligence in EMI"
Computer Music Journal,
Vol. 16, No. 2 (1992)
- DiScipio, Agostino
- "Inseparable Models of Materials and of Musical Design in
Electroacoustic and Computer Music"
Interface, Vol. 24 (1995)
- Koenig, Gottfried Michael
- "Genesis of Form in Technically Conditioned Environments"
Interface, Vol. 16, No. 3 (1987)
- "Aesthetic Integration of Computer-Composed Scores"
Computer Music Journal,
Vol. 7, No. 4 (1983)
- Laske, Otto
- Xenakis, Iannis
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