It interweaves computing pedagogy with musical concepts and creative activities, showing you how to integrate the creativity and design of the arts with the mathematical rigor and formality of computer science. Making Music with Computers: Creative Programming in Python introduces important concepts and skills necessary to generate music with computers. First rate in every way.”-David Cope, Computer Composition Pioneer, and Professor Emeritus, Music Department, University of California, Santa Cruz Written clearly, succinctly, and including many appropriate diagrams, this book is a must for anyone desiring to create their own applications for composing and making music. “Making Music with Computers by Bill Manaris and Andrew Brown is a perfect accompaniment to programming music with the computer language Python.

They encourage you to create, compose music, and play with patterns and data.”-From the Foreword by Mark Guzdial, Georgia Institute of Technology

In that world of music and mathematics, they construct a sandbox of computational tools. … Bill and Andrew offer an accessible path into a wonderful world that is both as modern as your new laptop and as ancient as Plato. “Bill Manaris and Andrew Brown have created this marvelous book that will engage and inspire you to learn more about the science and art of creating music through computation.

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