Early Writings on Computer Music
Peter Gena
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MUSICOL Manual, Version 1, (MUSical Instruction Composition Oriented Language) for the
6400 Digital Computer, 1973. Technical Report No. 7, SUNY at Buffalo. MT41.G35M8
PDFs: MUSICOL Manual (1.3MB); Appendices (1.9MB)
Programming Balbastre's Romance. The Musical Box
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Gena, Programmed in Fortran 4), 1975. Technical Report No. 9, SUNY at Buffalo. MT41.G35
MUSICOL: Musical Instruction Composition-Oriented Language. Computing in the Humanities, J.S. North (ed.). Waterloo, Ontario: University of Waterloo Press, 1977. Glasgow: University of Glasgow Press, 1977.
In Divisions, A Journal for the Art and Practice of Early
Music, March 1979: A description of the computer synthesis of the Balbastre
Romance, and an enclosed record disk.