 | The Cognition of Basic Musical Structures by David Temperley
Buy new: $50.00 / Used from: $23.57 Very interesting.
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 | Virtual Music: Computer Synthesis of Musical Style by David Cope
Buy used from: $15.40 Haven't read it yet, but it should be interesting
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 | The Algorithmic Composer (Computer Music and Digital Audio Series) by David Cope
Buy new: $49.95 / Used from: $41.89 This series is classic, although expensive and the CD-ROMs are in Mac format only.
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 | Experiments in Musical Intelligence (Computer Music and Digital Audio Series) by David Cope
Buy used from: $95.06 |
 | Computers and Musical Style (Computer Music and Digital Audio Series) by David Cope
Buy used from: $4.91 Haven't read it; looks interesting.
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 | A Generative Theory of Tonal Music by Fred Lerdahl
Buy new: $25.16 / Used from: $22.95 A classic.
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 | Machine Musicianship by Robert Rowe
Buy used from: $24.23 Haven't read it; looks interesting.
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 | Simple Composition by Charles Wuorinen
Buy new: $29.00 / Used from: $20.97 About composition instead of algorithmic composition, but useful anyway.
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 | Musical Composition by Reginald Smith Brindle
Buy new: $17.28 / Used from: $9.01 About composition instead of algorithmic composition, but useful anyway.
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 | The Computer Music Tutorial by Curtis Roads
Buy new: $48.39 / Used from: $28.68 Somewhat outdated, but interesting.
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 | Computer Music: Synthesis, Composition, and Performance by Charles Dodge
Buy new: $88.67 / Used from: $53.88 More about sound synthesis than composition, but still interesting.
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 | The Rhythmic Structure of Music (Phoenix Books) by Grosvenor Cooper
Buy new: $19.23 / Used from: $5.69 Haven't read it; looks interesting.
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 | Emotion and Meaning in Music (Phoenix Books) by Leonard B. Meyer
Buy new: $12.05 / Used from: $6.49 |
 | The Psychology of Music, Second Edition (Academic Press Series in Cognition and Perception)
Buy new: $76.78 / Used from: $41.95 Haven't read it; looks interesting.
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| Fundamentals of Musical Composition by Arnold Schoenberg
Buy used from: $11.97 One of the most useful books on composition; this reads like a composition textbook, with plenty of suggestions for practice exercises. Very highly recommended.
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 | The Music Machine: Selected Readings from Computer Music Journal
Buy new: $50.00 / Used from: $6.38 A collection of Computer Music Journal articles; a classic.
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 | Tonal Pitch Space by Fred Lerdahl
Buy new: $55.00 / Used from: $79.05 Hard-core theory of pitch space, complete with formulas for computing distances between pitch regions, etc. Not light reading, but very informative!
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