Music of the Spheres

Reading List

Intertextuality


Intertextuality Allen, G. (2000)
Intertextuality: The New Critical Idiom
Oxford: Routledge
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barthes Barthes, R. (1977)
Image-Music-Text
London: Fontana Press
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bloom Bloom, H. (1997)
The Anxiety of Influence
New York: Oxford University Press
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Chandler - Semitoics Chandler, D. (2007)
Semiotics: The Basics (2nd Ed.)
Abingdon: Routledge
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saussure Culler, J. (1976)
Saussure
London: Fontana Press
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The Kristeva Reader Kristeva, J (2002)
The Kristeva Reader
Oxford: Blackwell
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raw-cooked Lévi-Strauss, C (1994)
The Raw and the Cooked
London: Pimlico
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Orr - Intertextuality Orr, M. (2008)
Intertextuality: Debates and Contexts
Cambridge: Polity Press
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Intertextuality in Music


Klein, M. (2005)
Intertextuality in Western Art Music
Bloomington: Indiana University Press
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Cook - Rethinking Music Cook, N. (1999)
Rethinking Music
Oxford: Oxford University Press
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Cook, N. (2000)
Analysing Musical Multimedia
Oxford: Oxford University Press
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Agawu - Music as Discourse Kofi Agawu, V. (2009)
Music as Discourse
Oxford: Oxford University Press
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Studying Popular Music Middleton, R. (2000)
Studying Popular Music
Buckingham: Open University Press
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Linguistics and Semiotics in Music Monelle, R. (1992)
Linguistics and Semiotics in Music
Harwood Academic Publishers
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Nattiez - Music and Discourse Nattiez, J-J. (1992)
Music and Discourse
Princeton University Press
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A Theory of Musical Semiotics Tarasti, E (1994)
A Theory of Musical Semiotics
Bloomington: Indiana University Press
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Signs of Music Tarasti, E. (2002)
Signs of Music: A Guide to Musical Semiotics
New York: Mouton de Gruyter
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The Science of Sound


Ashton, A. (2005)
Harmonograph: A Visual Guide to the Mathematics of Music
Glastonbury: Wooden Books Ltd
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Hawkins, J. (2006)
A General History of the Science and Practice of Music
Whitefish, MT: Kessinger Publishing Co
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Helmholtz, H. (1954)
On the Sensations of Tone
New York: Dover Publications
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Jeans, J. (1968)
Science and Music
New York: Dover Publications
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Maconie, R. (1997)
The Science of Music
Oxford: Oxford University Press
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Roads, C. (2004)
Microsound
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
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Schoenberg, A. (1992)
Theory of Harmony
Berkeley: University of California Press
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Music / Numbers


Benson, D. (2006)
Music: A Mathematical Offering
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
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Cowell, H. (1996)
New Musical Resources
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
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Fauvel, J., Flood, R., Wilson, R. (2006)
Music and Mathematics: From Pythagoras to Fractals
Oxford: Oxford University Press
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Loy, G. (2006)
Musicmathics Volume 1: The Mathematical Foundation of Music
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
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Loy, G. (2007)
Musicmathics Volume 2: The Mathematical Foundation of Music
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
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Webern, A. (1960)
The Path to the New Music
Bryn Mawr, PA: Theodore Presser
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Music / Time


Griffiths, P. (1985)
Oliver Messiaen and the Music of Time
New York: Cornell University Press
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Messiaen, O. (1957)
The Technique of my Musical Language
(two volumes)
Paris: Leduc
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Messiaen, O. (1994-2002)
Traité de rythme, de couleur et d’ornithologie
(seven volumes)
Paris: Leduc
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Pople, A. (1998)
Messiaen: Quatuor pour la Fin du Temps
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
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Reich, S. (2004)
Writings on Music: 1965-2000
New York: Oxford University Press
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Samuel, C. (1986)
Oliver Messiaen: Music and Color
Portland: Amadeus Press
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Sherlaw Johnson, R. (1992)
Messiaen
Berkeley: University of California Press
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Music / Colour


Betancourt, M. (ed.) (2006)
Thomas Wilfred’s Clavilux
Rockville, MD: Wildside Press
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Düchting, H. (2004)
Paul Klee: Painting Music
New York: Prestel
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Gage, J. (2006)
Colour and Meaning: Art, Science and Symbolism
London: Thames and Hudson
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Kandinsky, W. (1977)
Concerning the Spiritual in Art
New York: Dover Publications
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Kandinsky, W. (1980)
Point and Line to Plane
New York: Dover Publications
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Maur, K. (1999)
The Sound of Painting: Music in Modern Art
New York: Prestel Verlag
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Rimington, A.W. (2005)
Colour-Music: The Art of Mobile Colour
Boston: Adamant Media Corporation
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Shaw-Miller, S. (2004)
Visible Deeds of Music: Art and Music from Wagner to Cage
London: Yale University Press
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Patterns / Form / Process


Cage, J. (1968)
Silence: lectures and writings
London: Calder and Boyers
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Madden, C. (2007)
Fractals in Music
Salt Lake City: High Art Press
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Olsen, S. (2006)
The Golden Section: Nature’s Greatest Secret
Glastonbury: Wooden Books Ltd
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Wade, D. (2006)
Symmetry: The Ordering Principle
Glastonbury: Wooden Books Ltd
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