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> "The Theory and Technique of Electronic Music is a uniquely complete source of information for the computer synthesis of rich and interesting musical timbres."

It's really a great book, but it is far from "complete" as it omits some very important synthesis techniques - most notably granular synthesis and physical modeling! To be fair, no single book would be able to cover the entire spectrum of electronic sound synthesis. The second edition of "The Computer Music Tutorial" by Curtis Roads (https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262044912/the-computer-music-tu...) comes close, but it is a massive book with over 1200 pages and took literally decades to write. (The second edition has been published 27 years after the first edition!)

What I find really cool about Miller's book is that all examples are written in Pd so anyone can try them out and experiment further.