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General Histories

ML 197 .C757 1989
New Directions in Music, by David Cope

ML 197 .G76 1995
Modern Music and After, by Paul Griffiths

ML 197 .M675 1990
Twentieth-Century Music, by Robert P. Morgan

ML 197 .S17 2002
Twentieth-century Music: an Introduction, by Eric Salzman

ML 197 .S35 1992
Music Since 1945: Issues, Ideas, and Literature, by Elliot Schwartz

ML 197 .W44 1988
Soundings: Music in the Twentieth Century, by Glenn Watkins.

ML 200.5 .G36 1997
American Music in the Twentieth Century, by Kyle Gann

ML 200.5 .P48 1998
Perspectives on American Music since 1950, ed. by James R. Heintze


General Source Guides

Music Ref ML 1 .P1093 B4 1984
Perspectives of New Music: An Index, 1962-1982, by Ann P. Basart

Music Ref ML 100 .P54 1998
Cassell Companion to 20th-Century Music, by David Pickering

Music Ref ML 113 .W45 1987
Analysis of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Music: 1940-1985, by Arthur Wenk

Music Ref ML 118 .N57 1993
The Twentieth-Century Composer Speaks, by Mari Nishimura


Histories and Source Guides by Style or Technique

Aleatory/Chance Composition

ML 60 .C13 S5
"Indeterminacy," in Silence, by John Cage (pp. 35-40)

ML 410 .C24 F47 1996
John Cage's Theatre Pieces: notations and performances, by William Fetterman

Music Ref ML 100 .N48 2001
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd ed., see entry for "Aleatory," by Paul Griffiths
Also available through Grove Music Online.

MZ1 no. 2938
A History of Aleatory Music, by Stephen A. Hedges


Electronic Music

ML 1092 .G74
A Guide to Electronic Music, by Paul Griffiths

ML 1380 .C43
Electric Sound: the Past and Promise of Electronic Music, by Joel Chabade

ML 1380 .M36 1993
Electronic and Computer Music, by Peter Manning

ML 1380 .M63 2000
Modulations: A History of Electronic Music, ed. by Peter Shapiro

Source Guides on Electronic Music

Music Ref ML 128 .E4 C76
A Bibliography of Electronic Music, by Lowell M. Cross

Music Ref ML 128 .E4 T55
A Bibliography of Computer Music, by Sandra L. Tjepkema


Electronic Music - Technology

ML 74 .R68 2001
Machine Musicianship, by Robert Rowe

ML 1092 .D54 1997
Computer music: Synthesis, composition, and performance, by Charles Didge and Thomas A. Jerse

ML 3800 .W57 1996
On Sonic Art, by Trvor Wishart

MT 41 .I57
Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference (lib. has 1989, 1997, 1998, and 1999 volumes)

MT 56 .C668 2000
The Algorithmic Composer, by David Cope

MT 56 .R6 1996
The Computer Music Tutorial, by Curtis Roades

MT 723 .C77 2000
The CSound Book: Synthesis, Composition, and Performance, ed. by Richard Boulanger

MT 723 .R7 1993
Interactive Music Systems, by Robert Rowe


Electronic Music - Digital Audio and Recording Technology

TK 5105.8863 .H34 2001
Digital Audio,by Russ Haines

TK 6478 .E27 2001
The Microphone Book,by John Eargle

TK 7881.4 .E27 2001
Audio in Computers,by Claudius Bruse

TK 7881.4 .K58 1999
Digital Sound Processing for Music and Multimedia,by Ross Kirk and Andy Hunt

TK 7881.4 .T346 1997
The Audio Experience, by Michael Talbot-Smith

TK 7881.4 .W3834 1994
An Introduction to Digital Audio, by John Watkinson

TK 7882 .C56 P64 1989
The Compact Disc, by Ken C. Phlmann


Electronic Music - Aesthetics and Criticism

ML 1092 .A47 1999
Aesthetics of Live Electronic Music,Contemporary Music Review, Vol. 18, part 3

ML 1380 .L3 1986
The Language of Electroacoustic Music, ed. by Simmon Emmerson


Minimalism

ML 200.5 .M413 1988
American Minimal Music, by Wim Mertens

NX 504 .S77 1993
Minimalism: Origins, by Edward Strickland (located on the first floor of Jerome Library)


Serialism

MT 46 .M677 1991
Class Notes for Atonal Music Theory, by Robert D. Morris

Music Ref ML 100 .N48 2001
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd ed., see entry for "Serialism," by Paul Griffiths.
Also available via Grove Music Online.

Source Guides on Serialism

Music Ref ML 128 .T9 B4
Serial Music: A Bibliography, by Ann P. Basart

Music Ref ML 128 .T9 S76 1989
Selected Annotated Bibliography on Italian Serial Composers, by Harvey J. Stokes


Set Theory and Pitch-Class Composition

MT 46 .M67 1987
Composition with Pitch-Classes: A Theory of Compositional Design, by Robert D. Morris

ML 3811 .F66
The Structure of Atonal Music,by Alan Forte


Stochastic Composition

ML 3800 .X4
Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition, by Iannis Xenakis


World Wide Web Sites Relating to Contemporary Music

Organizations

American Music Center
IRCAM (Institute de Recherche et Coordination Acoustiqe/Musique)
International Alliance for Women in Music
International Computer Music Association (including the online journal Array)
Other Minds

Composers and Performers

Google Directory of Contemporary Composers
John Cage Online
Wendy Carlos Home Page
GlassPages: Philip Glass on the Web
Steve Reich Home Page
Karlheinz Stockhausen Official Website
Iannis Xenakis Bibliography and Discography
Kronos Quartet

General

DRAM (access for BGSU students, faculty, and staff only):  online listening
Integral Serialism Links
John Starrett's Microtonal Resources
New Consonant Music
Women in Electroacoustics (by Dr. Elainie Lillios)
Electroacoustic Web Sites
Thomas Moore's New Music Links
Unbound:  Frogpeak Music Online Publications
radiOM.org (free registration required)


 

 
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