music-research@HPLPM.HPL.HP.COM (05/30/91)
Music-Research Digest Wed, 29 May 91 Volume 6 : Issue 22
Today's Topics:
Canon and Fugue
Composers Desktop Project
Music and OOP Book Announcement
on-line music databases
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Date: 28 May 91 21:05:59 GMT
From: maverick%fir.Berkeley.EDU%agate@edu.Berkeley.ucbvax (Vance Maverick)
Subject: Canon and Fugue
To: music-research@prg
Message-ID: <1991May28.210559.28899@agate.berkeley.edu>
Can anyone point me to the official ftp sources for Roger Dannenberg's
programs Canon and Fugue? E-mail please. Thanks,
Vance
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Date: Wed, 22 May 91 15:15 GMT
From: "Sue Final, University of York" <SMF3@UK.AC.YORK.VAXA>
Subject: Composers Desktop Project
To: MUSIC-RESEARCH@prg
Composers Desktop Project
I am requesting the help of composers and educationalists to collect information on the use of digital technology in music creation.
You may have heard of Composers Desktop Project (CDP) which originated from ideas of a member of staff and graduates of the University of York's Music Department.
Five years on, we have a thriving Music Technology course and CDP is a
'club' of over 100 individual and institutional members, all with the
common interest of using affordable technology to create music in a
digital environment with professional sound quality.
The breakthrough has been the SoundSTreamer, which, starting with the Atari ST,
offers users 16-bit resolution on recording and playback from analogue and
digital sources.
The software is in the process of adaptation to the much faster Atari TT, and
further development later this year will open up the system to a wider range of
computer equipment. A library of software has also been developed to facilitate
the creation of the user's own software applications.
We want to hear from you if you are currently using music technology in
educational courses or for your personal compositional needs, or if you
would be interested to find out more about this subject.
The questions we are trying to answer are:
1 Do you currently use music technology and if so for what purposes?
2 If you are in the eduactional sector, are there any plans to introduce
music technology to your establishment in the near future?
3 What kind of computer equipment do you currently use?
4 If you are using one of the more advanced systems at work, would it
be useful to you to be able to purchase a much cheaper system for use at home,
and if so, how much would be an affordable price for a home system?
I would be delighted to send you further information about CDP and I look
forward to any comments. Please reply to Sue Final, address SMF3@UK.AC.YORK.
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Date: Wed, 22 May 91 08:19:53 PDT
From: stp@edu.Stanford.ccrma (Stephen Pope)
Subject: Music and OOP Book Announcement
To: Music-Research@prg
Message-ID: <9105221519.AA00226@ ccrma.Stanford.EDU >
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NEW BOOK ON OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING AND MUSIC
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The Well-Tempered Object
Musical Applications of Object-Oriented Software Technology
A Structured Anthology on Software Science and Systems
based on Articles from Computer Music Journal 1980-89
Compiled and edited by Stephen Travis Pope
Published by MIT Press, 1991
The Well-Tempered Object is based on a collection of articles
that appeared in Computer Music Journal over the space of ten years
relating to the application of object-oriented (OO) software
technology--the most important new software engineering technology
of the 1980s--to various musical applications. It consists of
articles from Computer Music Journal 4(4), 8(5), 10(4) and 13(2)
along with new chapters and updates to the original texts as
addenda. The authors describe the application of OO technology to
a wide range of areas of computer music and digital audio signal
processing including music representation and composition, real-
time performance, and digital signal processing (DSP). A number of
popular OO programming languages are represented, including Lisp,
Smalltalk-80, and ObjectiveC.
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Keywords/Topics
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Music software, object-oriented programming, object-oriented
software design, music representation, composition and
performance, graphical user interfaces, DSP programming, single
and multiple inheritance, Actors, OO user interface systems.
Flavors Band, FORMES, Kyma, Platypus, SoundKit, MusicKit, MODE,
HyperScore ToolKit, CreationStation, Javelina, VDSP, TTrees,
Nutation.
NeXT, Macintosh, Sun SPARCstation, LISP, Smalltalk-76 & -80,
ObjectiveC, ACT-1, and DSP languages.
Language and methodology introductions, tool and application
reports, extensive bibliographies, tutorials on OO programming
and OO design.
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Outline
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Introduction
Part 1--OO Machine Tongues
Part 2--Languages and Systems
Part 3--OO DSP Tools and Systems
Author Contact Addresses
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Table of Contents
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Introduction--Stephen Travis Pope
Part 1: Tutorials and Technology
Machine Tongues VIII: The Design of a Smalltalk Music System--
Glenn Krasner
Machine Tongues IX: Object-Oriented Programming--Henry Lieberman
Machine Tongues XI: Object-Oriented Software Design--Stephen
Travis Pope
Part 2: Music Representation and Processing Tools
Flavors Band: A Language for Specifying Musical Style--C. Fry
FORMES: Composition and Scheduling of Processes--Xavier Rodet and
Pierre Cointe
Introduction to MODE: The Musical Object Development Environment--
Stephen Travis Pope
An Overview of the Sound and Music Kits for the NeXT Computer--
David Jaffe and Lee Boynton
Addendum: Sound and Music Kits Version 1.0
Part 3: Composition Systems
The Kyma/Platypus Computer Music Workstation--Carla Scaletti
Addendum: A Kyma Update
An Introduction to the Creation Station--Henry Flurry
Addendum: An Update on the Creation Station
TTrees: A Tool for the Compositional Environment--Glendon Diener
Addendum: A Hierarchical Approach to Music Notation
Part 4: Signal Processing Systems
Javelina: An Environment for Digital Signal Processor Software
Development--Kurt J. Hebel
Addendum: Filter Design and Optimization Examples
Virtual Digital Signal Processing in an Object-Oriented System--
David K. Mellinger, G. E. Garnett and Bernard Mont-Reynaud
Addresses of Authors
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Details
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Compiled and Edited by Stephen Travis Pope (Editor of Computer
Music Journal)
ISBN 0-262-16126-5, 200 pages, hardcover, US$ 30.00
Available from:
MIT Press, 55 Hayward St., Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142 USA
Tel: (617) 625-8569
(stp)
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Date: 24 May 91 14:42:20 GMT
From: toby%m1%mucs%ukc%mcsun@net.uu.uunet (Toby Howard)
Subject: on-line music databases
To: music-research@prg
Message-ID: <TOBY.91May24154220@r3h.cs.man.ac.uk>
Does anyone know if there are there any databases on the net of music held
in an encoded machine-readable format?
Thanks
Toby
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toby@uk.ac.man.cs +44 61-275-6274
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