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cognition

Music, Mind, and Brain
M. Clynes (Editor) / Published 1982
Shaping Time : Music, the Brain, and Performance
David Epstein / Hardcover / Published 1995
Generative Processes in Music : The Psychology of Performance, Improvisation, and Composition
J Sloboda (editor)
Music and the Mind
Anthony Storr; Paperback
Music and Memory
Robert Snyder; Paperback
The Cognitive Neuroscience of Music
Peretz & Satorre, editors
Conceptualizing Music: Cognitive Structure, Theory, and Analysis
Lawrence M. Zbikowski

composition / theory

New Images of Musical Sound
Robert Cogan / Hardcover / Published 1984
Sonic Design : Practice & Problems
Robert Cogan / Paperback / Published 1986
Sonic Design : The Nature of Sound and Music
Robert D. Cogan / Published 1976
Computer Music : Synthesis, Composition, and Performance
Charles Dodge, Thomas A. Jerse / Paperback / Published 1997
The Language of Electroacoustic Music
Simon Emmerson (Editor) / Hardcover / Published 1987
Beyond Orpheus : Studies in Musical Structure
David Epstein / Published 1987
Composers and the Computer
Curtis Roads (Editor) / Hardcover / Published 1985
Meta-Hodos and Meta Meta-Hodos : A Phenomenology of 20th Century Musical Materials and an Approach to the Study of Form
James Tenney / Paperback / Published 1988
Acoustic Communication (Communication and Information Science)
Barry Truax / Hardcover / Published 1985
Acoustic Communication (Communication and Information Science)
Barry Truax / Paperback / Published 1985
On Sonic Art
Trevor Wishart, Simon Emmerson (Editor) / Hardcover / Published 1996
On Sonic Art
Trevor Wishart, Simon Emmerson (Editor) / Paperback / Published 1996

general

Emblems of Mind : The Inner Life of Music and Mathematics
Edward Rothstein; Paperback

music history

A History of Consonance and Dissonance
James Tenney / Hardcover / Published 1988
Music for Player Piano : Essays on the Studies of Conlon Nancarrow, and Other Scores (Pro/Am American Music Series, 4)
James Tenney, Peter Garland / Published 1987

perception

The Intelligent Ear : The Science of Auditory Perception
Diana Deutsch / Published 1995
The Psychology of Music
Diana Deutsch (Editor) / Paperback / Published 1998
Speech and Audio Signal Processing : Processing and Perception of Speech and Music
by Ben Gold (Author), Nelson Morgan (Author)
The Sounds of Music: Perception and Notation
by Gerald Eskelin

philosophy / aesthetics

Music As Heard : A Study in Applied Phenomenology
Thomas Clifton / Published 1983
Listening and voice : a phenomenology of sound
Don Ihde
Sense and significance
Don Ihde
The Society of Mind
Marvin Minsky; Paperback
Experiencing of Musical Sound : Prelude to a Phenomenology of Music (Musicology Series Vol 1)
F. Joseph Smith / Hardcover / Published 1979
Understanding the Musical Experience (Musicology, Vol. 8)

reference

The World Soundscape Project's Handbook for acoustic ecology
Barry Truax (editor)

technology

Representations of Musical Signals
Giovanni De Poli, et al / Hardcover / Published 1991
Computer Music : Synthesis, Composition, and Performance
Charles Dodge, Thomas A. Jerse / Paperback / Published 1997
Composers and the Computer
Curtis Roads (Editor) / Hardcover / Published 1985
The Computer Music Tutorial
Curtis Roads / Paperback / Published 1996
Foundations of Computer Music
Curtis Roads / Published 1987
Musical Signal Processing
Curtis Roads (Editor), et al / Hardcover / Published 1997
Musical Signal Processing
Curtis Roads (Editor) / Paperback / Published 1997
The Music Machine : Selected Readings from Computer Music Journal
Curtis Roads (Editor) / Paperback / Published 1992

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