Notation

Read, Gardner. Music Notation: A Manual of Modern Practice. Boston: Allyn and Bacon,
1969. Print.

Stone, Kurt. Music Notation in the Twentieth Century: A Practical Guidebook. New York:
W.W. Norton, 1980. Print.

Counterpoint

Fux, Johann J, Alfred Mann, and John Edmunds. The Study of Counterpoint from Johann
Joseph Fux's Gradus Ad Parnassum. New York: W.W. Norton, 1965. Print.

Mann, Alfred. The Study of Fugue. New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press, 1958.
Print.

Tonal Harmony and Theory

Cadwallader, Allen C, and David Gagné. Analysis of Tonal Music: A Schenkerian Approach.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Print.

Laitz, Steven G. The Complete Musician: An Integrated Approach to Tonal Theory, Analysis,
and Listening. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. Print.

Lerdahl, Fred, and Ray Jackendoff. A Generative Theory of Tonal Music. Cambridge, Mass:
MIT Press, 1983. Print.

Instrumentation and Orchestration

Adler, Samuel. The Study of Orchestration. New York: W.W. Norton, 2002. Print.

Blatter, Alfred, and Alfred Blatter. Instrumentation and Orchestration. New York: Schirmer
Books, 1997. Print.

Serial and Set Theory

Forte, Allen. The Structure of Atonal Music. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1973. Print.

Perle, George. Serial Composition and Atonality: An Introduction to the Music of

Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1962. Print.

Specific Composer Techniques

Babbitt, Milton, Stephen Peles, Stephen Dembski, Andrew Mead, and Joseph N. Straus.The
Collected Essays of Milton Babbitt. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011. Internet
resource.

Boland, Marguerite, and John F. Link. Elliott Carter Studies. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge
University Press, 2012. Print.

Carter, Elliott, Nicholas Hopkins, and John F. Link. Harmony Book. New York: Carl Fischer,
2002. Print.

Lendvai, Ernő. Béla Bartók: An Analysis of His Music. London: Kahn & Averill, 1971. Print.

Messiaen, Olivier. The Technique of My Musical Language. Paris: A. Leduc, 1956. Print.
Xenakis, Iannis. Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition. Bloomington:
Indiana University Press, 1971. Print.