Composition

Reginald Smith Brindle, Serial Composition

Reginald Smith Brindle, The New Music The Avant-garde since 1945 (1987)

Michel Chion, Guide to Sound Objects

David Cope, Techniques of the contemporary composer

Henry Cowell, New Musical Ressources (1930, Edition 1996)

Leon Dallin, Techniques of Twentieth Century Composition

Walter Gieseler, Komposition im 20. Jahrhundert. Details – Zusammenhänge

Walter Gieseler, Harmonik in der Musik des 20. Jahrhunderts. Tendenzen – Modelle Textteil, Notenbeispiele

Griffiths, Paul Modern Music and After

Michael Hewitt, Composition for Computer Musicians

Boguslaw Schäffer, Introduction to Composition

Arnold Schoenberg, Fundamentals Of Music Composition

Larry Sitsky, Music of the Twentieth-century Avant-garde : A Biocritical Sourcebook

Iannis Xenakis, Formalized Music

Computer Music

Charles Dodge, Thomas A. Jerse (ed.), Computer Music Synthesis Composition and Performance

Simon Emmerson, Living Electronic Music

Tom Holmes, Electronic and Experimental Music

Eduardo Reck Miranda, Computer Sound Design. Synthesis Techniques and Programming

Eduardo Reck Miranda, John Al Biles, Evolutionary Computer Music

Curtis Roads, Microsound + CD (FLAC Files, ZIP)

Curtis Roads, Computer Music Tutorial

Trevor Wishart, On Sonic Art

Digital Sound Processing

Miller Puckette, The Theory and Technique of Electronic Music

Davide Rocchesso, Introduction to Sound Processing

Steven W. Smith, The Scientist and Engineer’s Guide to Digital Signal Processing

Studio Technology

Bobby Owsinski, The Recording Engineer’s Handbook

Instruments

• Brass

• Keyboards

• Percussion

• Plucked Strings

• Strings

• Synthesizer

  Bernd Schreiber, Das-Synthesizer Handbuch. Synthesizer transparent gemacht

• Woodwinds

  Veale, Mahnkopf, Motz, Hummel The Techniques of Oboe Playing

Musicology

Byron Almén / Edward Pearsall (ed.), Approaches to Meaning in Music

Jan Beran, Statistics in Musicology

Rainer Gurski, Wahrnehmen – Ein Lehrbuch

Peter Kivy, Music, Language and Cognition. And Other Essays in the Aesthetics of Music

Paul Nelson, Talking About Music – A Dictionary

Paul Nelson, Pitch Class Sets

Daniel Muzzulini, Genealogie der Klangfarbe

Thomas Hermann, The Sonification Handbook

Digital Media

Simon Emmerson (Edt.), Music, Electronic Media and Culture

Orchestration

Samuel Adler, The Study of Orchestration (2nd Edition)

Alan Belkin, Artistic Orchestration

Walter Gieseler, Instrumentation in der Musik des 20. Jahrhunderts. Akustik – Instrumente – Zusammenwirken

Walter Piston, Orchestration

Kurt Stone, Music Notation in the Twentieth Century

Programming

• Mathematics

  Mathe Online [5.6.2009]

  Loy Garet, Musimathics Vol 1

• Lisp

  Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (2nd edition)

  David J. Cooper, Jr., Basic Lisp Techniques

  Jeff Dalton, Brief Guide to CLOS

  Geoffrey J. Gordon, Common LISP Hints

  Paul Graham, ANSI Common Lisp

  Paul Graham, On Lisp. Advanced Techniques for Common Lisp

  Peter Norvig, Tutorial on Good Lisp Programming Style

  David R. Pierce, Stuart C. Shapiro Common Lisp: A Brief Tutorial

  Peter Seibel, Practical Common Lisp

  Stuart C. Shapiro, COMMON LISP An Interactive Approach

  Guy L. Steele, Common Lisp the Language, 2nd Edition HTML, PDF

  David S. Touretzky, COMMON LISP: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation

Software

• Common Music

  Heinrich Taube, Notes from the Metalevel (ZIP)

• Pure Data

  Brian WC Chung, Multimedia Programming with Pure Data, (Images)

  Andy Farnell, Designing Sound Practical synthetic sound design for film, games and interactive media using dataflow (Excerpt)

  Floss Manuals, Pure Data

  IEM, bang Pure Data

  Johannes Kreidler, Programming Electronic Music in Pd

  Miller Puckette, The Theory and Technique of Electronic Music

• Pro Tools

  Mike Collins, Pro Tools 8. Music Production, Recording, Editing and Mixing

• PWGL

  Mikael Laurson and Mika Kuuskankare, PWGL BOOK 1.0