| The computer music tutorial C Roads MIT press, 1996 | 2413 | 1996 |
| Microsound C Roads The MIT Press, 2004 | 1080 | 2004 |
| Composing electronic music: a new aesthetic C Roads Oxford University Press, 2015 | 323 | 2015 |
| Grammars as representations for music C Roads Computer Music Journal, 48-55, 1979 | 228 | 1979 |
| Automated granular synthesis of sound C Roads Computer Music J. 2 (2), 61-62, 1978 | 222 | 1978 |
| Introduction to granular synthesis C Roads Computer Music Journal 12 (2), 11-13, 1988 | 217 | 1988 |
| Foundations of computer music C Roads, J Strawn Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985 | 211 | 1985 |
| Research in music and artificial intelligence C Roads ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) 17 (2), 163-190, 1985 | 175 | 1985 |
| Representations of musical signals G De Poli, A Piccialli, C Roads MIT press, 1991 | 157 | 1991 |
| The Music Machine: Selected Readings from Computer Music Journal C Roads MIT press, 1989 | 133 | 1989 |
| Musical signal processing C Roads, ST Pope, A Piccialli, G De Poli Routledge, 2013 | 126 | 2013 |
| Asynchronous granular synthesis C Roads Representations of musical signals, 143-186, 1991 | 101 | 1991 |
| Artificial intelligence and music C Roads Computer Music Journal 4 (2), 13-25, 1980 | 83 | 1980 |
| A tutorial on non-linear distortion or waveshaping synthesis C Roads Computer Music Journal, 29-34, 1979 | 80 | 1979 |
| Interview with max mathews C Roads, M Mathews Computer Music Journal 4 (4), 15-22, 1980 | 75 | 1980 |
| Composers and the Computer C Roads (No Title), 1985 | 71 | 1985 |
| Acousmatic morphology: an interview with François Bayle S Desantos, C Roads, F Bayle Computer music journal, 11-19, 1997 | 53 | 1997 |
| An overview of music representations C Roads Musical Grammars and Computer Analysis, 7-37, 1984 | 46 | 1984 |
| Sound composition with pulsars C Roads Journal of the Audio Engineering Society 49 (3), 134-147, 2001 | 42 | 2001 |
| Early electronic music instruments: Time line 1899-1950 C Roads Computer Music Journal 20 (3), 20-23, 1996 | 42 | 1996 |