This site provides great links to other web sites that explain music composition on the computer using mathematics. These sites describe the kind of equipment and programs one needs to successfully compose musical pieces on the computer.
http://onemission.com/mms/relevance.html
This
site discusses the importance and impressive qualities of digital music
composition programs. It also provides information about oneMission
music, software, and sales.
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http://www.artsednet.getty.edu/ArtsEdNet/Read/Newsletters/o11assis.html –
This
site provides information on assistive technologies for disabled people
who are interested in pursuing the creative arts. It describes types
of art and music composition programs for use with augmentative communication
devices and computers.
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http://www.oz.net/~cyu/Thesis.html
This
web site is actually an online version of a Thesis completed at The Massachusetts
Institute of Technology in May 1996. The thesis and thus the site
provide an overview of Music Composition on the computer and explain its
background and its use for most people today.
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http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~jsbaker/info.htm
This
site provides a great overview for a person interested in computer music
programs. It begins from scratch; the author of the site, James Baker,
made his own computer, and he explains the type of equipment that is best
suited for someone interested in musical composition on the computer.
He explains the best equipment and programs available for musical composition,
and he even gives a range of prices. Additionally, he provides some
tips to amateur music composer that will help the composer to improve.
All in all, this site is a great overview, but it fails to really provide
how one actually does compose. Nevertheless, it is essential for
“would-be” computer musicians.
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http://au.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Music/Computer_Generated/Computer_Generated_Composition/
This
site provides a couple interesting links for the computer musician.
It has a great link to algorithmicmusic.com, which is a site that provides
an overview of algorithmic music, or music created by an automatic process.
It has articles and simple, easy to understand descriptions and also provides
information on good equipment to purchase. The Yahoo site also directs
a person to another page with information about fractal music composition,
or the arrangement of a musical composition using mathematical fractals.
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http://www.academy.qut.edu.au/music/newmedia/jMusic/
This site gives information
about music composition with Java. It contains descriptions of what
it is and includes in depth tutorials and documentation. It also
contains examples of music composed with jMusic, and book references on
computerized music composition.
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http://www.ars-nova.com/songworks.html
This site provides information
about Songworks II Polyphonic music composition programs, a product which
automatically records the notes played on the MIDI keyboard. It provides
purchasing information along with system requirements for a product which
is relatively cheap and easy to use. This seems like a great program
for an amateur computer musician.
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http://www.indiana.edu/~emusic/
This site contains many
links to documents which discuss computer music composition. It has
technical support, and information on specific hardware and software, and
also contains many other links to related sites.
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Composed by: Jen Pearsall, Liz Hughes,
Jessica Moore, and Winifred Duffy