of Microprocessors

SECTION I
Background
Music is unique among the arts. Virtually everyone enjoys and appreciates it
to some extent. It is certainly the richest of the fine arts, with the typical
middle-class household spending hundreds of dollars annually on music
hardware such as radios, phonographs, and hi-fi sound systems and software
like records, tapes, and concert tickets. It is also unique in that it encompasses
a very broad range of disciplines ranging from mathematics to physics
to computer programming.
In the area of music synthesis by computer, it is necessary that the
practitioner be somewhat familiar with these and other fields in order to
master the medium. While detailed treatment of all necessary background
material is impossible in five short chapters, that which is covered should
serve to enlighten the reader in those areas outside of his or her primary
interest.