UCC Library: Music: Books & eBooks

Music Books at UCC Library

UCC Library uses the 'Dewey Decimal' system. Music books are in the 780s.

Use the Library Catalogue to locate books.

Composing & Computer Music Programming

Brian Eno: Visual Music by Christopher Scoates
ISBN: 9781452108490
Publication Date: 2013
This comprehensive monograph celebrates the visual art of renowned musician Brian Eno.
Generative Design by Hartmut Bohnacker
ISBN: 9781616890773
Publication Date: 2012
Generative design is a revolutionary new method of creating artwork, models, and animations from sets of rules, or algorithms.
Making Musical Apps by Peter Brinkmann
ISBN: 9781449314903
Publication Date: 2012
This concise book shows you how to use Pd--with help from the libpd library--as an easily embeddable and widely portable sound engine. Whether you're an audio developer looking to create musical apps with sophisticated audio capabilities, or an application developer ready to enhance mobile games with real-time procedural audio, Making Musical Apps introduces you to Pd and libpd, and provides hands-on instructions for creating musical apps for Android and iOS.
Making Things Talk by Tom Igoe
ISBN: 9781680452150
Publication Date: 2017
Whether you need to connect some sensors to the Internet or create a device that can interact wirelessly with other creations, this book shows you what you need.
Max/MSP/Jitter for Music by V. J. Manzo
ISBN: 9780199777686
Publication Date: 2011
A user-friendly introduction to a powerful programming language that can be used to write custom software for musical interaction.
Meta-Hodos and META Meta-Hodos by James Tenney; Larry Polansky (Introduction by); Lauren Pratt (Editor)
ISBN: 9780945996002
Publication Date: 2006
The Nature of Code by Daniel Shiffman
ISBN: 9780985930806
Publication Date: 2012
This book focuses on a range of programming strategies and techniques behind computer simulations of natural systems, from elementary concepts in mathematics and physics to more advanced algorithms that enable sophisticated visual results.

How to Find a Print Book

Use the Library Catalogue to find books and eBooks. Note:
Location: what floor it is on

Call number: where it is shelved - see the book's spine

Status: is it available or currently on loan?

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eBooks

You can choose to search for ebooks only on the eJournals & eBooks page - see:

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Most of UCC Library's eBooks can be located through the Library catalogue. A 'view online' link is provided to the eBook, example:

It is also possible to do a keyword search in e-book databases. E-book databases relevant for music research include:

ACLS Humanities E-Book This link opens in a new window
This resource is an online collection of over 5,700 books of high quality in the Humanities, accessible through institutional and individual subscription. HEB was launched in September 2002.
Ebook Central (Academic Complete) This link opens in a new window
The Ebook Central resource now incorporates a subscription to the Academic Complete titles package, which provides UCC Library with full text access to over 200,000 ebooks, across a broad range of subject areas.
UCC Library owns over 2,900 of the titles available on Ebook Central.

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