Making Music with Your Computer 2E - Softcover

Edstrom, Brent

 
9780872887442: Making Music with Your Computer 2E

Synopsis

The industry's best-selling book on the subject has been completely revised and expanded, bringing you detailed instruction for using your computer to create music. In three exciting areas, Edstrom vividly covers MIDI orchestration, musicianship, understanding and using today's music technology plus an anatomy of styles including example scores to demonstrate the use of computers and synthesizers to create music in a variety of modes. An audio CD demonstrates concepts used throughout the book making this title an absolute must-have for anyone using a computer for hard disk, MIDI, recording, composing or orchestrating music!

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About the Author

For the past twenty years, Brent Edstrom has utilized music technology as an integral part of an active career as a performer, composer, arranger, transcriber, and music synthesist. Highlights of industry work include hundreds of arrangements and transcriptions for the Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation, music for industrial films and regional television, arrangements for symphony orchestra, and session work for a wide variety of recording projects. In the realm of traditional composition, his pieces have been featured at universities and major festivals such as the International Trumpet Guild. His theoretical work includes an ongoing publishing project on the topic of music notation algorithms in C++. Edstrom currently works as a freelance arranger for the Hal Leonard Corporation and coordinates the music theory and composition program at Whitworth College.

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