Guitar:

Schneider,John.TheContemporaryGuitar.Berkeley:UniversityofCaliforniaPress,c1985.237p.2sounddiscs:analog,331/3rpm,mono.;7
in.SERIES:Thenewinstrumentation,v.5Partialchronologyofrepertoiresince1900:p.[211]214.Includesindex&bibliography:p.[217]229.
Anotherexcellentadditiontothenewinstrumentationseries.ItisorganizedintothreepartsdealingwiththeHistoricalbackground,
theconstructionandacousticpropertiesoftheinstrumentsandtheactualtimbreandnotationofmusicfortheguitar.PartsOne
andTwoareofatechnicalnaturewithextensivedescriptionofthedevelopmentandconstructionoftheguitar,scientificanalysisof
soundproduction,spectralanalysisofthetimbre,etc.Thethirdsection,however,isofamorepracticalnatureandwillbeof
greatestinteresttocomposers.Thisworkcontainsmoretextthattheotherbooksinthisseriesbutcontainslotsofgoodideasand
examplesfromtheliteratureforthisoftenneglectedinstrument.

Piano:

Bunger,Richard.TheWellPreparedPiano.ColoradoSprings:TheColoradoCollegeMusicPress,1973.45p.ForewordbyJohnCage.
Oneofthefewtextsdealingwithextendingthebasictechniqueofpianoperformancethroughmodificationoftheinstrument.
Containsmanyideasforpreparingthepianoalongwithmanysuggestionsfordevelopingyourownmethods.
Organ:

Irwin,Stevens.DictionaryofPipeOrganStops,2nded.NewYork:SchirmerBooks;London:CollierMacmillanPublishers,1983.Anexcellent
bookdescribingthenames,constructionandtimbreofnearlyeveryorganstopyouwillbelikelytoencounter.Thisworkisamustforclear,
preciseorganresgistration.Extensiveappendixescoversuchareasasharmonicfactorsaffectingtonequality,constructionandmechanical
elementsandtheireffectonmusicalsounds,etc.

Donahue,Thomas.TheModernClassicalOrgan.Jefferson,NorthCarolina:McFarland&Company,Inc.1991.
Averygood,concisetextonorgandesignanditsperformanceimplications.Itcontainsmethodsforbeatcalculationwithinvarious
tuningsandregistrations,harmoniccontentsofvariousreeds,andvarioustuningsystems.Partsarequitetechnical,butthereis
muchusableinformationforthecomposer.

ElectronicMusic:

ADescriptivenotationforelectronicmusic.
Thismanuscriptcontainsgoodexamplesfromthelate60's(pub.1969)andthephilosophiesandrationalbehindthenotationisvery
good.Greatbackgroundforallwhowanttodevisetheirownelectronicmusicnotation.

ChoralMusic:

Fleming,LarryLee.ContemporaryChoralNotation.AnnArbor,Mich.:UniversityMicrofilmsInternational,1982.273p.Bibliography:p.263
273.
Thisdissertationcontainshundredsofexamplesofmodernnotation.Althoughfromthetitleitwouldseemtofocusonthe
choral/vocalfield,theprinciplesapplytoallmusic.Theexamplesarenotasselectiveascouldbehopedfor,andsothereisalotof
extrastufftowadethrough...

Hicks,ValJ.,InnovativeChoralMusicNotation:theSemantics,SyntacticsandPragmaticsofSymbology.AnnArbor,Mich.:University
MicrofilmsInternational,1982.160leaves.Bibliography:leaves[144]158.Thesis(Ph.D.)UniversityofUtah,1971.