My Words and Where I Want Them
Herbert Brun, Princelet Editions, 1986
Teaching Composition / Facing The Power Of The Respondent
Mark Enslin, doctoral dissertation, Univ. of Illinois, 1989
Twenty Sensing Compositions / Book One
Kenneth Gaburo, Lingua Press (Frog Peak Music), 1974
Essays Before a Sonata, The Majority, and Other Writings
Charles Ives, W. W. Norton & Co., 1970
Sound and Structure
John Paynter, Cambridge University Press, 1992
On Music and Musicians
Robert Schumann, Univ. of California Press, 1946
The Mathematical Basis of the Arts
Joseph Schillinger, Da Capo Press, 1976
Fundamentals of Musical Composition
Arnold Schoenberg, St. Martin's Press, 1967
Simple Composition
Charles Wuorinen, Longman, 1979
Milton Babbitt / Words About Music
Milton Babbit, Univ of Wisconsin Press, 1987
Orientations
Pierre Boulez, Harvard University Press, 1986
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