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Suggested Reading
Auer, Peter; Couper-Kuhlen, Elizabeth; Muller, Frank. Language in Time – The Rhythm and Tempo of Spoken Interaction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Berlioz, Hector, and Strauss, Richard; Front, Theodore (trans.). Treatise on Instrumentation. New York: Edwin F. Kalmus, 1948.
Bernstein, Leonard. The Unanswered Question – Six Talks at Harvard by Leonard Bernstein..
Blacking, John. A Commonsense View of All Music. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
Blacking, John. How Musical is Man? Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2000.
Bonds, Mark Evans. A History of Music in Western Culture. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson / Prentice Hall, 2006.
Brown, Oren L. Discover Your Voice. San Diego: Singular Publishing Grouop, Inc., 1996.
Merker, Bjorn, and Wallin, Nils L. “An Introduction to Evolutionary Musicology,” in The Origins of Music. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2000.
Burkholder, J. Peter; Grout, Donald Jay; Palisca, Claude V. A History of Western Music (8th Edition). New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2010.
Cage, John. Silence – Lectures and Writings by John Cage. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1973.
Christian, David. Maps of Time. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2005.
Cole, K.C. “Scientists Trace Cosmic Blast to Unusual Star,” Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles, September 30, 1998.
Cooke, Mervyn. A History of Film Music. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Cooper, David. Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Copland, Aaron. What to Listen for in Music. New York: New American Library, 2002.
Courlander, Harold. Negro Folk Music, U.S.A.
Cowell, Henry. New Musical Resources. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
DeCurtis, Anthony; Henke, James; with George-Warren, Holly (editors); and Miller, Jim (original editor). The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll. New York: Random House, 1992.
Dexter, Dave. The Jazz Story 1965
Dissanayake, Ellen. “Music as a Human Behavior: an Hypothesis of Evolutionary Origin and Function.” Unpublished paper presented at the Human Behavior & Evolution Society Meeting, Los Angeles, August 1990.
Dissanayake, Ellen. “Antecedents of the Temporal Arts in Early Mother-Infant Interaction,” in The Origins of Music. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2000.
Dissanayake, Ellen. What is Art For? University of Washington Press, 2002.
Dodd, Philip (editor). Genesis – Chapter and Verse. New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2007.
Donington, Robert. The Interpretation of Early Music. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1992.
Duckworth, William. Talking Music – Conversations with John Cage, Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, and Five Generations of American Experimental Composers. New York: Da Capo Press, 1999.
Dylan, Bob. Chronicles, Volume One. New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2004.
Eisen, Cliff (editor), Spencer, Stewart (translator). Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a Life in Letters. New York: Penguin Books, 2006.
Engel, Carl. Music of the Most Ancient Nations. London: John Murray, Albermarle Street, 1870.
Forte, Allen. The Harmonic Organization of The Rite of Spring. New York: Yale University Press, 1978.
Forte, Allen. The Structure of Atonal Music. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1973.
Furman, Charles E. (editor). Effectiveness of Music Therapy Procedures: Documentation of Research and Clinical Practice. Silver Spring, Maryland: National Association for Music Therapy, Inc., 1996.
Gann, Kyle. American Music in the Twentieth Century. Belmont, California: Wadsorth/Thompson Learning, 1997.
Goldron, Romain; (Sterman, Stella A., trans.). Ancient and Oriental Music (History of Music, Vol 1). H.S. Stuttman Company, Inc., 1968.
Goldron, Romain; (Sterman, Stella A., trans.). Byzantine and Medieval Music (History of Music, Vol 2). H.S. Stuttman Company, Inc., 1968.
Goldron, Romain; (Sterman, Stella A., trans.). Minstrels and Masters (History of Music, Vol 3). H.S. Stuttman Company, Inc., 1968.
Goldron, Romain; (Sterman, Stella A., trans.). Music of the Renaissance (History of Music, Vol 4). H.S. Stuttman Company, Inc., 1968.
Greene, Brian. The Elegant Universe – Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and The Quest for the Ultimate Theory. New York: Vintage Books, 2000.
Grout, Donald Jay, and Williams, Hermine Weigel. A Short History of Opera. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003.
Harewood, the Earl of, and Peattie, Antony (editors). The New Kobbe’s Opera Book. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2000.
Harkleroad, Leon. The Math Behind the Music. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Hart, Mickey; with Jay Stevens. Drumming at the Edge of Magic. San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1990.
Hartshorne, Charles. Born to Sing (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1973).
Hawking, Stephen. A Brief History of Time. New York: Bantam Books, 1998.
Hebdige, Dick. Sulbculture – The Meaning of Style. New York: Routledge, 1988
Helmholtz, Hermann. On the Sensations of Tone. Mineola, New York: Dover, 1954.
Henke, James (editor) with Puterbaugh, Parke (The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum). I Want to Take You Higher – The Psychedelic Era 1965-1969. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1997.
Hofstadter, Douglas R. Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Goldain Braid. New York: Basic Books, 1999.
Huron, David. Sweet Anticipation, Muisic and the Psychology of Expectation. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2006.
Jeans, Sir James. Science & Music. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1937
Jourdain, Robert. Music, the Brain, and Ecstasy. New York: Harper Collins, 1998.
Lee, Martin A. & Shlain, Bruce. Acid Dreams – The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond. New York: Grove Press, 1994.
Lendvai, Erno. Bela Bartok: An Analysis of his Music. London: Kahn & Averill, 2000.
Levitin, Daniel. This is Your Brain on Music. New York: Penguin Group, 2007.
Levitin, Daniel. The World in Six Songs – How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature. New York: Plume (the Penguin Group), 2008.
Magee, Bryan. Confessions of a Philosopher. New York: The Modern Library, 1999.
Magee, Bryan. The Story of Philosophy. New York: DK Publishing, 2001.
Magee, Bryan. The Tristan Chord – Wagner and Philosophy. New York: Harry Holt and Company, 2000.
Marek, George R. Beethoven, Biography of a Genius. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company (Apollo Edition), 1972.
Menuhin, Yehudi, with Davis, Curtis W. The Music of Man. Methuen Publishing Ltd, 1979.
Merriam, Alan P. The Anthropology of Music. Chicago: Northwestern University Press, 1980.
Mithen, Steven. The Singing Neanderthals. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2006.
Montagu, Jeremy. Origins and Development of Musical Instruments. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 2007.
Nettl, Bruno. The Study of Ethnomusicology – Thirty-one Issues and Concepts. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2005.
Newman, Ernest. The Wagner Operas. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991.
Owen, James. “Bone Flute is Oldest Instrument, Study Says,” National Geographic. June 24, 2009.
Palmer, Robert. Deep Blues. New York: Penguin Books, 1982.
Palmer, Robert. Rock & Roll: An Unruly History. New York: Harmony Books, 1995.
Partch, Harry. Genesis of a Music. New York: Da Capo Press, 1974.
Patel, Aniruddh D. Music, Language, and the Brain. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010
Pelikan, Jaroslav. Bach Among the Theologians. Eugene, Oregon: Wipf & Stock, 1986.
Pinker, Steven. How the Mind Works. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1997.
Piston, Walter. Harmony. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1948.
Pole, William. The Philosophy of Music. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd, 1895.
Politoske, Daniel T. Music. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1979.
Polkinghorne, John. Quarks, Chaos & Christianity. New York: Crossroad, 1998.
Popper, Karl. The Logic of Scientific Discovery. New York: Routledge Classics, 2002.
Popper, Karl. The Open Society and Its Enemies, Volume I (The Spell of Plato). Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1971.
Popper, Karl. The Open Society and its Enemies, Volume 2: Hegel and Marx. New York: Routledge Classics, 2003.
Potter, Keith. Four Musical Minimalists. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay. Principles of Orchestration. New York: Dover, 1964.
Rose, Tricia. Black Noise – Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1994.
Rosenberg, Neil V. Bluegrass – a History. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1985.
Ross, Alex. The Rest is Noise. New York: Picador, 2007.
Rouget, Gilbert. Music and Trance – a Theory of the Relations between Music and Possession. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985.
Sachs, Curt. The History of Musical Instruments. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1940.
Sachs, Curt. The Rise of Music in the Ancient World, East and West. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1943.
Sacks, Oliver. Musicophilia. New York: Vintage Books, 2008.
Sarig, Roni. The Secret History of Rock – The Most Influential Bands You’ve Never Heard. New York: Billboard Books, 1998.
Schneck, Daniel J., and Berger, Dorita S. The Music Effect, Music Physiology and Clinical Applications. Philadelphia: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2006.
Schoenberg, Arnold; Black, Leo (trans.). Style and Idea – Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1984.
Schonberg, Harold C. The Lives of the Great Composers. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1997.
Schopenhauer, Arthur; Payne, E.F. J. (trans.). The World as Will and Representation (2 vols). Mineola, New York: Dover, 1966.
Seashore, Carl E. Psychology of Music. New York: McGraw Hill, 1938.
Shakespeare, William; Bate, Jonathan and Rasmussen, Eric (editors). Complete Works. New York: Modern Library, 2007.
Shankar, Ravi. My Music, My Life. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1968.
Stapert, Calvin R. My Only Comfort – Death, Deliverance, and Discipleship in the Music of Bach. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Edermans Publishing Company, 2000.
Stockhausen, Karlheinz; Maconie, Robin (compiled by). Stockhausen on Music – Lectures & Interviews. London: Marion Boyars, 2000.
Stockhausen, Karlheinz. Towards a Cosmic Music. London: Element Books, 1989.
Storr, Anthony. Music and the Mind. New York: The Random House Publishing Group, 1992
Stravinsky, Igor. Poetics of Music. Harvard College, 2003.
Van Huyssteen, J. Wentzel. Alone In the World? Human Uniqueness in Science and Theology. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2006.
Wagner, Richard; Porter, Andrew (trans.). The Ring of the Nibelung. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1977.
Wallin, Nils L, Merker, Bjorn, and Brown, Steven (editors). The Origins of Music. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2000.
Ward, Geoffrey C., and Burns, Ken. Jazz: A History of America’s Music. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.
Wenner, Jann S. (editor). 20 Years of Rolling Stone – What a Long, Strange Trip it’s Been. New York: Straight Arrow Publishers, 1987.
Westrup, J.A. (Chairman), Abraham, Gerald (Secretary), Dent, Edward J.; Hughes, Dom Anselm; Wellesz, Egon (editors). The New Oxford History of Music, Vols I – XI. New York: Oxford University Press, 1960.
Willis, S.J., John R. The Teachings of the Church Fathers. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2002.
Willows, Dean. Music of the Universe. San Jacinto, California: Darryl Lyman, 2004.
Wood, Allen W. (editor). Basic Writings of Kant. New York: Modern Library, 2001.
Wooten, Victor L. The Music Lesson.
Wright, Robert. The Moral Animal. New York: Vintage Books, 1994.
Zappa, Frank, with Occhiogrosso, Peter. The Real Frank Zappa Book. New York: Touchstone, 1999.
Zollo, Paul. Songwriters on Songwriting. New York: Da Capo Press, 1997.