Computing Science 768

CMPT 768: Computer Music Theory and Sound Synthesis

This graduate course will first be offered in the Spring of 2009 and annually thereafter with an estimated enrollment of 10 students. It will be offered on the Surrey Campus.

Journals

The Library currently provides many journals that will support this program. For example:
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Acta Acustica
Acoustics Research Letters Online
Journal of Sound and Vibration
Wave Motion
Sound Wave
Electronic Musician
Journal of Mathematics and Music
Computer Music Journal
Journal of Computational Acoustics

The Library has identified one journal not in our collection that could prove useful to this course. The recommended title is:
AES (Audio Engineering Society Journal) $541

Cost for serials for CMPT 768: $541/year

Bibliographic Tools

The library provides access to a number of databases that will support this program such as the ACM Digital Library, IEEE/IEE Electronic Library, and CiteSeer: Scientific Literature Digital Library. No further Bibliographic tools will be required.

Monographs

Relevant Subject headings related to this program and the SFU library's holdings are as follows. The first number are the holdings across all three SFU Libraries. Numbers in parentheses ( ) are holdings at SFU Surrey, and numbers in brackets [ ] are holdings at SFU Vancouver.
Computer Music 451 (117) [62]
Music -- Acoustics and Physics 108 (28) [8]
Psychoacoustics 24 (10) [5]
Sound Recording and Reproducing -- Digital techniques 91 (59) [32]
The Surrey holdings in this area should be maintained at a stronger level than currently is being done. Approximately 5 titles per year should be added to the Surrey collection.

At an average book price of $85, this will cost $425/year.

Monograph costs for CMPT 768: $425/year

Total annual costs for CMPT 768: $966