Essentials of Music Technology - Softcover

Ballora, Mark

9780190240912: Essentials of Music Technology

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0190240911 ISBN 13: 9780190240912

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2015

Computers in music have gone from being a niche subject to becoming a ubiquitous presence that all music students are bound to encounter in their professional lives. Meant to serve as a general reference for music technology courses, Essentials of Music Technology provides an overview of musical acoustics, psychoacoustics, MIDI, digital audio, and sound recording.

Topics covered include:

* The Internet

* MIDI software

* The nature of digital audio storage

* Filters

* Effects

* Room acoustics

* Sampling and synthesis techniques

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From the Back Cover:

Within the span of the last decade, computers in music have gone from being a niche subject to becoming a ubiquitous presence that all music students are bound to encounter in their professional lives. Meant to serve as a general reference for music technology courses, Essentials of Music Technology provides an overview of musical acoustics, psychoacoustics, MIDI, digital audio, and sound recording.

Among the topics covered in this book are:

The Internet
MIDI software
The nature of digital audio storage
Filters
Effects
Microphone types
Room acoustics
Sampling and synthesis techniques

The author has a background in theater arts, music composition, and multi-media production. He studied music technology at New York University and McGill University. He is assistant professor of Music Technology at the Pennsylvania State University.

About the Author:

Mark Ballora has a background in theater arts, music composition, and multimedia production. He studied music technology at New York University and McGill University. He is Associate Professor of Music Technology at Pennsylvania State University.

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