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for Subjects, Objects, and Phrase-formation in Musical Composition

"On the Fetish Character in Music and the Regression of Listening" from "The Culture Industry: Selected Essays on Mass Culture", by Theodor W. Adorno, edited by J. M. Bernstein. (First published 1991 by Routledge)

"The Emperor’s New Clothes" from "Fairy Tales and Stories", by Hans Christian Andersen, translated by H. P. Paull. (1872)

"How To Do Things With Words", by J. L Austin. (First published 1962 by Clarendon Press)

"Listening" from "The Responsibility of Forms: Critical Essays on Music, Art, and Representation", by Roland Barthes, translated by Richard Howard. (1991, University of California Press)

"Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity", by Judith Butler. (First published 1990 by Routledge)

"Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen", by Michel Chion, translated by Claudia Gorbman. (1994, Columbia University Press)

"Difference & Repetition", by Gilles Deleuze, translated by Paul Patton. (First printed 1994, Athlone Press)

"Writing and Difference", by Jacques Derrida, translated by Alan Bass. (First published 1978 by Routledge)

"Meter as Rhythm", by Christopher F. Hasty. (1997, Oxford University Press)

"The Fine Art of Repetition: Essays in the Philosophy of Music", by Peter Kivy. (1993, Cambridge University Press)

"Microsound", by Curtis Roads. (2002, MIT Press)

"Phrase Rhythm in Tonal Music", by William Rothstein. (1990, Schirmer Books)

"The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World", by R. Murray Schafer. (1977, Revised 1994, Destiny Books)

"Musicking: The Meanings of Performing and Listening", by Christopher Small. (1998, Wesleyan University Press)

"The Aesthetics of Silence" from "Styles of Radical Will", by Susan Sontag (1967, Published 2001 by Vintage)

"Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition (Harmonologia Series, No.6)", by Iannis Xenakis. (2001, Pendragon Press)

"Opera’s Second Death", by Slavoj Zizek and Mladen Dolar. (2002, Routledge)