"The Byte Book of Computer Music"
Byte Publications
Copyright 1979
ISBN: 0-07-043097-7


Description from the Back Cover of "The Byte Book of Computer Music"
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Would-be musicologists and fugue fanciers take note!

"The BYTE Book of Computer Music" combines the best computer music articles 
from past issues of BYTE Magazine with exciting new material-- all written for 
the computer experimenter interested in this fascinating field.

You will enjoy Hal Chamberlin's "A Sampling of Techniques for Computer 
Performance of Music," which shows how you can create four-part melodies on 
your computer.  For the budget minded, "A $19 Music Interface" contains 
practical tutorial information-- and organ fans will enjoy reading "Electronic 
Organ Chips for Use in Computer Music Synthesis."

New material includes "Polyphony Made Easy" and "A Terrain Reader."  The first 
describes a handy circuit that allows you to enter more than one note at a time 
into your computer from a musical keyboard.  The "Terrain Reader" is a 
remarkable program that creates random music based on land terrain maps.

Other articles range from flights of fancy about the reproductive systems of 
pianos to Fast Fourier transform programs written in BASIC and 6800 machine 
language, multi-computer music systems, Walsh Functions, and much more.

For the first time, material difficult to obtain has been collected into one 
convenient, easy to read book.  An ardent do-it-yourselfer or armchair 
musicologist will find this book to be a useful addition to the library.


Table of Contents
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Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapters 1-17

     1) SCORTOS: Implementation of a Music Language,
        By Hal Taylor (Byte, September 1977) 

     2) A Two Computer Music System,
        By Jeffrey H. Lederer, Tom Dwyer, and Margot Critchfield
        (Byte, March 1978)

     3) The Microcomputer and the Pipe Organ,
        By Jef Raskin  (Byte, March 1978)

     4) Tune In with Some Chips,
        By Ted Sierad (Byte, September 1977)

     5) A $19 Music Interface (And Some Music Theory for Computer Nuts),
        By Bill Struve (Byte, December 1977)

     6) A Sampling of Techniques for Computer Performance of Music,
        By Hal Chamberlin (Byte, September 1977)

     7) Walsh Functions: A Digital Fourier Series,
        By Benjamin Jacoby, Ph.D (Byte, September 1977)

     8) Simple Approaches to Computer Music Synthesis,
        By Thomas G. Schneider (Byte, October 1977)

     9) Notes on Anatomy: The Piano's Reproductive System,
        By Chris Morgan (Byte, September 1977) 

     10) Notes of Interfacing Pneumatic Player Pianos,
         By Carl Helmers (Byte, September 1977) 

     11) Electronic Organ Chips for Use in Computer Music Synthesis,
         By Robert Grappel 

     12) Fast Fourier Transforms on Your Home Computer,
         By William D. Stanley and Steven J. Peterson

     13) Fast Fourier Transforms for the 6800,
         By Richard Lord 

     14) Polyphony Made Easy,
         By Steven K. Roberts (Byte, January 1979)

     15) Music from the Altair 8800 Computer,
         By Loring C. White

     16) Teach KIM to Sing,
         By Peter H. Myers

     17) A Terrain Reader,
         By Richard Gold 

Appendix - Frequencies in Hertz for an Evenly Tempered Scale


Introduction
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     Computer music means many things to many people, but to the personal 
computer experimenter it means creating music with the aid of a small computer 
system.  The first experiments with computer music were conducted in the 1950's 
at Bell Labs and RCA.  The expense of using the huge computers of the day meant 
that only a handful of people could benefit from the experiments, though.

     The microcomputer revolution has changed all that.  Armed with inexpensive 
personal computers, a new generation of music enthusiasts, would-be 
musicologists and fugue fanciers are sampling the delights of digital music 
synthesis.

     "The BYTE Book of Computer Music" is designed to help you get the most out 
of your computer music experiments.  The best articles from past issues of BYTE 
have been combined with new material, all geared to the computer experimenter.

     Beginners to the field (as well as veterans) will enjoy Hal Chamberlin's 
"A Sampling of Techniques for Computer Performance of Music", which discusses 
the basics of polyphonic synthesis and gives you directions for playing four-
part melodies on a KIM computer.  Or perhaps you're interested in random 
composition-- if so, read Rich Gold's new "Terrain Reader", a remarkable 
program that composes music based on land terrain maps.

     Other articles range from flights of fancy about the reproductive systems 
of pianos to a practical $19 music interface circuit.  For the more 
adventuresome reader we offer two new fast Fourier transform programs written 
in BASIC and 6800 machine language.  The fast Fourier transform is a useful 
tool for analyzing the harmonic content of music.

     Also included is Steve Robert's "Polyphony Made Easy;" a handy circuit 
allows you to enter more than one note at a time into your computer from a 
musical keyboard.

     The list goes on, but we'll let the material speak for itself.  We hope 
this information, collected in one place for the first time, will be a useful 
addition to your music and computer libraries.

Christopher Morgan
Editor