Table of contents : Foreword. New Music and Science. Fundamental Concepts. Digital Audio Concepts. Music Systems Programming. Sound Synthesis. Introduction to Digital Sound Synthesis. Sampling and Additive Synthesis. Multiple Wavetable, Wave Terrain, Granular, and Subtractive Synthesis. Modulation Synthesis. Physical Modeling and Formant Synthesis. Waveform Segment, Graphic, and Stochastic Synthesis. Mixing and Signal Processing. Sound Mixing. Basic Concepts of Signal Processing. Sound Spatialization and Reverberation. Sound Analysis. Pitch and Rhythm Recognition. Spectrum Analysis. The Musicians Interface. Musical Input Devices. Performance Software. Music Editors. Music Languages. Algorithmic Composition Systems. Representations and Strategies for Algorithmic Composition. Internals and Interconnections. Internals of Digital Signal Processors. MIDI. System Interconnections. Psychoacoustics. Psychoacoustics in Computer Music. Fourier Analysis.