Course bibliography

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Alluri, Vinoo, and Petri Toiviainen. 2012. “Effect of Enculturation on the Semantic and Acoustic Correlates of Polyphonic Timbre.” Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal 29 (3): 297–310. https://doi.org/10.1525/mp.2012.29.3.297.
Bernays, Michel, and Caroline Traube. 2011. “Verbal Expression of Piano Timbre: Multidimensional Semantic Space of Adjectival Descriptors.” In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Performance Science 2011, edited by Aaron Williamon, Darryl Edwards, and Lee Bartel. Utrecht: Ass. Européenne des Conservatoires, Académies de Musique et Musikhochschulen (AEC).
Blake, David K. 2012. “Timbre as Differentiation in Indie Music.” Music Theory Online 18 (2). http://mtosmt.org/issues/mto.12.18.2/mto.12.18.2.blake.php.
Cogan, Robert. 1984. New Images of Musical Sound. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Dolan, Emily. 2013. The Orchestral Revolution: Haydn and the Technologies of Timbre. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press.
Dolan, Emily I., and Alexander Rehding, eds. 2018. The Oxford Handbook of Timbre. New York: Oxford University Press. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190637224.001.0001.
Fales, Cornelia. 2002. “The Paradox of Timbre.” Ethnomusicology 46 (1): 56–95. https://doi.org/10.2307/852808.
Fink, Robert Wallace, Melinda Latour, and Zachary Wallmark, eds. 2018. The Relentless Pursuit of Tone: Timbre in Popular Music. New York: Oxford University Press.
Flore, Rebecca. 2018. “The Social Life of Timbre: Discussing Sound Color in Online Guitar Communities.” Paper presented at the Timbre is a Many-Splendored Thing conference, Montréal, Québec, Canada, July 5.
Green, Burdette, and David Butler. 2006. “From Acoustics to Tonpsychiologie.” In The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory, edited by Thomas Christensen, 1 edition, 246–71. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Heidemann, Kate. 2016. “A System for Describing Vocal Timbre in Popular Song.” Music Theory Online 22 (1). https://doi.org/10.30535/mto.22.1.2.
Helmholtz, Hermann L. F. 1875. On the Sensations of the Tone as a Psychological Basis for the Theory of Music. Translated by Alexander J. Ellis. London: Longmans, Green, and Co.
Hui, Alexandra. 2018. “The Naturalization of Timbre.” In The Oxford Handbook of Timbre, edited by Emily I. Dolan and Alexander Rehding. New York: Oxford University Press. http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190637224.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780190637224-e-13.
Levin, Theodore, and Valentina Süzükei. 2018. “Timbre-Centered Listening in the Soundscape of Tuva.” In The Oxford Handbook of Timbre, edited by Emily I. Dolan and Alexander Rehding. New York: Oxford University Press. http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190637224.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780190637224-e-15.
Leydon, Rebecca. 2012. “Clean as a Whistle: Timbral Trajectories and the Modern Musical Sublime.” Music Theory Online 18 (2). http://mtosmt.org/issues/mto.12.18.2/mto.12.18.2.leydon.html.
Loughridge, Deidre. 2018. “Timbre Before Timbre: Listening to the Effects of Organ Stops, Violin Mutes, and Piano Pedals ca. 1650–1800.” In The Oxford Handbook of Timbre, edited by Emily I Dolan and Alexander Rehding. New York: Oxford University Press. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190637224.001.0001.
Mirka, Danuta. 2000. “Texture in Penderecki’s Sonoristic Style.” Music Theory Online 6 (1). http://www.mtosmt.org/issues/mto.00.6.1/mto.00.6.1.mirka.html.
Neal, Jocelyn R. 2018. “The Twang Factor in Country Music.” In The Relentless Pursuit of Tone: Timbre in Popular Music, edited by Robert Wallace Fink, Melinda Latour, and Zachary Wallmark, 43–64. New York: Oxford University Press.
Provenzano, Catherine. 2018. “Auto-Tune, Labor, and the Pop Music Voice.” In The Relentless Pursuit of Tone: Timbre in Popular Music, edited by Robert Wallace Fink, Melinda Latour, and Zachary Wallmark, 141–58. New York: Oxford University Press.
Schwartz, Arman. 2018. “Don’t Choose the Nightingale: Timbre, Index, and Birdsong in Respighi’s Pini Di Roma.” In The Oxford Handbook of Timbre, edited by Emily I. Dolan and Alexander Rehding. New York: Oxford University Press. http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190637224.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780190637224-e-18.
Slawson, Wayne. 1981. “The Color of Sound: A Theoretical Study in Musical Timbre.” Music Theory Spectrum 3: 132–41. https://doi.org/10.2307/746139.
Sun Eidsheim, Nina. 2018. “‘The Triumph of Jimmy Scott’: A Voice Beyond Category.” In The Relentless Pursuit of Tone: Timbre in Popular Music, edited by Robert Wallace Fink, Melinda Latour, and Zachary Wallmark, 159–81. New York: Oxford University Press.
Tenzer, Michael. 2018. “Timbre and Polyphony in Balinese Gamelan.” In The Oxford Handbook of Timbre, edited by Emily I Dolan and Alexander Rehding. New York: Oxford University Press. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190637224.001.0001.
Teodorescu-Ciocanea, Livia. 2003. “Timbre versus Spectralism.” Contemporary Music Review 22 (1–2): 87–104. https://doi.org/10.1080/0749446032000134751.
Théberge, Paul. 2018. “The Sound of Nowhere: Reverb and the Construction of Sonic Space.” In The Relentless Pursuit of Tone: Timbre in Popular Music, edited by Robert Wallace Fink, Melinda Latour, and Zachary Wallmark, 323–44. New York: Oxford University Press.
Elferen, Isabella van. 2018. “Timbrality: The Vibrant Aesthetics of Tone Color.” In The Oxford Handbook of Timbre, edited by Emily I. Dolan and Alexander Rehding, page numbers not available. New York: Oxford University Press.
Wallmark, Zachary Thomas. 2014. “Appraising Timbre: Embodiment and Affect at the Threshold of Music and Noise.” PhD diss., University of California Los Angeles.
Wallmark, Zachary. 2018. “The Sound of Evil: Timbre, Body, and Sacred Violence in Death Metal.” In The Relentless Pursuit of Tone: Timbre in Popular Music, edited by Robert Wallace Fink, Melinda Latour, and Zachary Wallmark, 43–64. New York: Oxford University Press.
Wallmark, Zachary. 2018. “A Corpus Analysis of Timbre Semantics in Orchestration Treatises.” Psychology of Music 47 (4): 585–605. https://doi.org/10.1177/0305735618768102.
Wallmark, Zachary, and Roger A. Kendall. 2018. “Describing Sound: The Cognitive Linguistics of Timbre.” In The Oxford Handbook of Timbre. New York: Oxford University Press. http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190637224.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780190637224-e-14.
Zagorski-Thomas, Simon. 2018. “Timbre as Text: The Cognitive Roots of Intertextuality.” In The Pop Palimpsest: Intertextuality in Recorded Popular Music, 273–90. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3998/mpub.9755813.14.