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Resources

We shall here endeavor to maintain a collection of hyperlinks and other information, reviewed and annotated by the director.  Please submit material to him for consideration, mindful of his admonition: "don't believe the hyperbole." Note: these pages are in course of arrangement.
 

General (It now has it's own page.)
Computer Music and Other Technology (It now has it's own page.)
By Musical Culture-Area (It now has it's own page.)
By Theoretical Topic


General:
General
Music Theory
Ethnomusicology
Musicology
Musical Acoustics and Psychoacoustics
Computer Music and Other Technology:
Computer Music
Organology
Composition (It now has it's own page.)
General Composition
Harmony and Voice-leading
Counterpoint
Arranging and Transcription
Orchestration and Instrumentation
Notation
Atonality, Serial Procedures, etc.
Music Production and Technology (It now has it's own page.)
General Music Technology and Production
Recording
Synthesis, Sampling and Effects Processing
Signal Processing and DSP
MIDI and Sequencing
Mixing, Mastering, DAWs and PA
Software
Electro-Acoustic Music
Audiophilia, Recordings and Archiving
by Musical Culture-Area:
African (sub-Saharan)
Amerindian
Australasian
Central Asian/Siberian
East Asian
China
Japan
Korea
The Persian/Arabic/Turkish World
Prehistoric
Oceanic
South Asian/Indian
Southeast Asian
Western

By Theoretical Topic

Time and Tempo

Hudson, Stolen Time: The History of Tempo Rubato, Reprint edition---an important study.
Rothchild, The Lost Tradition in Music : Rhythm and Tempo in J. S. Bach's Time---
Barry, Musical Time: The Sense of Order---
Karlheinz Stockhausen's New Morphology of Musical Time---an article by Christopher K. Koenigsberg; Stockhausen doesn't know everything about time, but at least he's trying.
Auricle---excellent software for time adjustment (usually used for film soundtracks).
Speed---performance practice advice.

Dynamics

Dynamics---explains the relationships between musical dynamics, sound levels, decibels, phons, sones, etc.
Musical Dynamics, a Review---an article on bassoon performance practice.
Why Do FM Stations Sound So BAD?---an article on dynamic limiting in broadcasting.
Compression In Mastering---an article for engineers.
The Ramp Archetype---an abstract on dynamic shape in piano music.
Preventing Hearing Damage When Listening With Headphones---one can't be too careful.

Spectra and Timbre

Pitch

Krumhansl, Cognitive Foundations of Musical Pitch---
Adler, Sight Singing : Pitch, Interval, Rhythm, 2nd spiral edition---if you must have ear-training.
Burge, The Perfect Pitch Ear Training SuperCourse (CD ROM)---a high-tech alternative.

Pitch and Its Relation to Frequency---some explanations which might prove helpful.
What is absolute pitch?---a blessing or a curse, we wonder.
Perfect Pitch on the Internet---a clearinghouse for information and reports.
Tone Language Speakers Possess Absolute Pitch---a paper by Deutsch et al., from the ASA.
Absolute pitch and tonal function in context---a paper.
"Tone-deafness": the relative significance of perception and production of sound---a paper on dysmelodia.
 

Scale and Tuning

Books:
Partch, Genesis of a Music: An Account of a Creative Work, Its Roots and Its Fulfillments---this classic has inspired generations.
Chalmers, Divisions of the Tetrachord---a major work by a major figure.
Sethares, Tuning, Timbre, Spectrum, Scale---important work in minimizing dissonance and in relating scales and timbres.
Steblin, A History of Key Characteristics in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries---important in the interpretation of temperaments and their affects.

There are two journals devoted to tuning:
1/1, the journal of the Just Intonation Network, emphasizes just intonation while
Xenharmonikôn covers alternative tunings in general.
The Alternate Tuning Internet Mailing List is a wealth of information and erudite discussion.
The three of these can lead you to all of the significant resources on the web and in print.
Tuning and Temperament Bibliography---enormous and thorough.
Definitions of tuning terms---a valuable resource, serving as a community glossary for the mailing list.
Anaphoria---contains a lot of useful information.
Corporeal Meadows---devoted to the important microtonal composer/theorist, Harry Partch.
Midi Tempering Utilities---free tuning software from Fred Nachbaur.
Scala Home Page---the premire free software for tuning calculations.
Scale archive---A collection of over 2200 scales, a zipped file. This is the index.
List of mode names---an enormous collection of modes.
Scaleopia---over 300 music scales written out in standard notation, tablature and guitar fretboard diagrams.
Microtonal Synthesis---a directory of equipment capable of microtonality.

Sounds

Toop, Ocean of Sound: Aether Talk, Ambient Sound and Imaginary Worlds---the aesthetics of our sound-world.

Spatialization

Ultimate Spatial Audio Index---a large directory for spatial audio.

Musical Qualities and Indications

Thesaurus of Musical Terms---indications for tempo and expression.

Musical Form

Temko, Practical Approach to the Study of Form in Music---a good introduction to formal analysis.
Berry, Form in Music: An Examination of Traditional Techniques of Musical Form and Their Applications in Historical and Contemporary Styles---an easy introduction.
Spring and Hutcheson, Musical Form and Analysis---a first text.
Green, Form in Tonal Music---a more advanced analytical text.
Tenney, Meta-Hodos and Meta Meta-Hodos: A Phenomenology of 20th Century Musical Materials and an Approach to the Study of Form, 2nd rev edition---an important study from one of the modern giants of theory.
Rosen, Sonata Forms---the long history of a highly variable form.
Lerdahl and Jackendoff, A Generative Theory of Tonal Music---a classic exposition of the cognitive approach.
Perone (Compiler), Form and Analysis Theory---a comprehensive bibliography.
Bekker, Story of Music: An Historical Sketch of the Change in Musical Form---the perspective of our fathers (written in 1927).
Also, we must mention Percy Goetschius's elegant studies of form:
Goetschius, Lessons In Music Form---
Goetschius, Counterpoint Applied In The Invention, Fugue, Canon And Other Polyphonic Forms...---
Goetschius, Homophonic Forms Of Musical Compositions, An Exhaustive Treatise On The Structure..---
Goetschius, Larger Forms Of Musical Composition---
Nor can we ignore those of Ebenezer Prout:
Prout, Musical Form---
Prout, Applied Forms: A Sequel To Musical Form---

Musical Forms---a guide to Western art forms.
Forms: A Glossary---a breif guide to some components of form.
The Perception of Large-Scale Tonal Closure---important to the perception of large-scale forms.
 

Scores, Instruments and Conductors

Melodic Mode

Greek Modes---a useful chart and explanation.
Liturgical mode nomenclature---a useful chart and explanation.
Aspects of Early Major-Minor Tonality: Structural Characteristics of the Music of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries---a dissertation on the development of the major-minor system.
Bare Bones Raga Guide---an approach to the classification of ragas
Emotions Evoked by Indian Classical Music---a fascinating study.
Modality and children's affective responses to music---a fascinating question.

Chords and Voicings

Harmonic Mode

Toft, Aural Images of Lost Traditions: Sharps and Flats in the Sixteenth Century---a study of modality.
Bimodalism---the harmonic system of Enrique Ubieta.
Polytonics---the harmonic system of William Matthew Beachy.
The Schillinger System---devoted to the work of Joseph Schillinger.
Tone Clock---Theo Hoogstins on Peter Schat's harmonic system.

Meter, Rhythm and Groove

Houle, Meter in Music, 1600-1800: Performance, Perception, and Notation---the development of measured music.
Ancient Future---excellent material for learning African polyrhythm, Balinese kotèkan and Indian tala.
Speakeasy World Music Pages---some interesting articles on rhythm.
An Investigation into the Operation of Swing in Jazz---a paper.
The Rythm in Arabian Music---an excellent resource; a large catalog of rhythms.
 

Melody

Harmony

Mathematical Structures and Algorithmic Techniques

Experimental Music Software---featuring Andrew Culver's I Ching, originally developed for John Cage.
The Sound of Mathematics---aduitory display of mathematical structures as a compositional resource.
MusiNum---a free fractal music generator.
FractMus---a free fractal music generator.
Fractal Music Lab---includes free software.
The Fractal Music Project---a good resource for fractal/chaotic composition.
Music from Life---DNA and protein as a compositional resource; includes algorithmic software.
Orchaos Tapestry---generative music software.
Algorithmic composition---a nice overview.
Essays on Music---a number of insightful essays by William Harris.
Mathematica code---includes two musical Mathematica notebooks, one for serial composition.
The Rutles and the Use of Specific Models in Musical Satire---could satire be a fruitful source of algorithms, we wonder?

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