List of Publications (other than Musical Compositions)

Books

Electronic Music Synthesis: Concepts, Facilities, Techniques. 274 pp. W.W. Norton & Co., Inc., 1975. ISBN 0-393-09257-3.
TRS-80 Assembly Language: Introductory Concepts, Practical Programming Applications, Details of ROM and RAM Usage, Disk Programming.186 pp. Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1981. ISBN 0-13-931139-4. ISBN 0-13-931121-1 (pbk.).
TRS-80 Model III Assembly Language: A complete course in assembly language programming. 344 pp. Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1983. ISBN 0-13-931279-X (pbk. with disk). ISBN 0-13-931271-7 (pbk.). ISBN 0-13-931287-0 (disk).

Articles

“Some Combinational Properties of Pitch Structures.” Perspectives of New Music, Vol. 4, No. 1 (1965), pp. 54-61.
“Music and Electronics: A Report.” Perspectives of New Music, Vol. 4, No. 2 (1966), pp. 68-75.
“A General View of Compositional Procedure in Computer Sound Synthesis.” Proceedings of the American Society of University Composers, Vol. 3 (1970), pp. 98-108.
“Compositional Limitations of Electronic Music Synthesizers.” Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, Vol. 19, No. 6 (June 1971), pp. 484-488.
“Compositional Technique in Computer Sound Synthesis.” Proceedings of the American Society of University Composers, vols. 7/8 (1972), pp. 25-30.
“Composing by Computer.” Computers and the Humanities, Vol. 9 (1975), pp. 281-290.
“Electronic Music and Microcomputers.” Interface, Vol. 7 (1978 ), pp. 57-68. Reprinted in Perspectives of New Music, Vol. 16, No. 1 (1977), pp. 70-84.
“Creativity in Computer Music.” Byte, Vol. 4, No. 7 (July 1979), pp. 158-173.
(with Robert Halsall) “The Computerized Recording Studio.” dB, The Sound Engineering Magazine, Volume 14, No. 2 (February 1980), pp. 42-44.
Monthly columns on Assembly-Language Programming for the TRS-80 microcomputer from February, 1979 through March, 1983 in the TRS-80 Monthly News Magazine, published by H & E Computronics, Box 149, Spring Valley, New York 10977.
“The Composer between Man and Music.” Interface, Vol. 9, Number 3-4 (December 1980), pp. 159-165.
Articles on “Computers and music”, “Electronic music”, “Electronic instruments”, and biographies of Robert A. Moog and Maurice Martenot in the Sixth Edition of Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Macmillan (1981).
“MIDI: Promise, Problems, Prospects.” ala breve (publication of the Alabama Music Educators’ Association), Vol. 36, No. 4 (May 1989), pp. 20-21, 41.
“The Education of an Electronic Music Composer.” The Open Space Magazine, issue 8/9 (Fall 2006/Spring 2007), pp. 285-310.
“My Experience with Max Mathews in the Early Days of Computer Music.” Computer Music Journal, Volume 33, No. 3 (Fall 2009), pp. 41-44.
“Reality and Unreality in the Interpretation of Electroacoustic Music.” Electroacoustic Music Studies Network Proceedings, EMS-12 (Stockholm, Sweden).
“My Development as a Composer.” http://journaliconi.com/index.php/iconi/article/view/157
“19-Tone Theory and Applications.” http://journaliconi.com/index.php/iconi/article/view/110
“Fundamental Sound: A Conversation with Hubert Howe” by Mark Zaki. Computer Music Journal, Volume 45, issue 3 (2021).
“Structuring Spectra in Electroacoustic Music” Organized Sound, Cambridge University Press (2023)>

Reviews

“Recent Recordings of Electronic Music.” Perspectives of New Music, Vol. 7, No. 2 (1969), pp. 178-181.
“Music by Computers edited by von Foerster and Beauchamp.” Computers and the Humanities, Vol. 4, No. 4 (March 1970), pp. 277-283.
“Two Parameters of Melodic Line as Stylistic Determinants by David Sheldon Lewis and Some Techniques for Computer-Aided Analysis of Musical Scores by Donald Margedo Pederson. Perspectives of New Music, Vol. 9, No. 2 – Vol 10, No. 1 (1971), pp. 350-355.
“Electronic Music: Systems, Techniques and Controls by Allen Strange.” Perspectives of New Music, Vol. 11, No. 2 (1973), pp. 249-252.
“The 1974 ISCM World Music Days.” Perspectives of New Music, Vol. 13, No. 1 (1974), pp. 227-233.
“Electronic Music: A Listener’s Guide by Elliott Schwartz.” Perspectives of New Music, Vol. 12, Nos. 1-2 (1973-74), pp. 379-385.
“The Structure of Atonal Music by Allen Forte.” Proceedings of the American Society of University Composers, Vols. 9-10 (1974-75), pp. 118-124.
“The 1975 ISCM World Music Days.” Perspectives of New Music, Vol. 13, No. 2 (1975), pp. 204-210.
“1976 ISCM World Music Days Take Place in Boston.” The World of Music, Vol. XIX, Nos. 1/2 (1977), pp. 154-55 and 167-68.
“Toronto’s Structured Sound Synthesis Project.” Computers and the Humanities, Volume 15 (1981) pp. 65-66.
“International Computer Music Conference, 19-23 October 1984, Paris France.” Perspectives of New Music, Vol. 23, No. 2 (1985), pp. 236-250).
“Krieger, Matthews, and Tannenbaum: American Composers Alliance Recording Award.” Computer Music Journal, Volume 9, Number 1 (Spring 1985), pp. 66-68.
“Electronic Music Midwest, September 16-18, 2004.” Journal SEAMUS, Vol. 18, No. 1 (2005), pp. 21-23.

Unpublished or in Progress

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