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Musical Stylistics: A Selected Bibliography

Ackerman, James S. (1962). A Theory of Style. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Volume 20, No. 3, p. 227-

Bell, Quentin. On Human Finery. Schocken, second edition.

Boyd, Rob & Peter Richerson, (1992). "Punishment allows the evolution of cooperation (or anything else) in sizable groups." Ethology and Sociobiology, Vol. 13, pp. 171-195.

Brewster, William T. Representative Essays on the Theory of Style.

Cope, David (1992). Computer Analysis of Musical Style. Oxford University Press.

Dawkins, Richard. "Memes and cultural evolution." From The Selfish Gene.

DiMarco, Chrysanne (1989). A Computational Theory of Style. PhD dissertation, Computer Science Department, University of Toronto.

Gaiger, Jason (2002). The analysis of pictorial style. British Journal of Aesthetics, Vol. 42, No. 1, pp. 20-36.

Gjerdingen, Robert (1988). A Classic Turn of Phrase: Music and the Psychology of Convention, University of Pennsylvania Press.

Jan, Steven B. (1999). The selfish meme: Particularity, replication, and evolution in musical style. International Journal of Musicology, Vol. 8, pp. 9-76.

Kotler, Philip & Armstrong, Gary (2004) Principles of Marketing, Prentice Hall, 10th edition.

Meyer, Leonard B. (1989). Style and Music: Theory, History and Ideology. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Miles, Josephine (1963). Toward a Theory of Style and Change. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 63-67.

Muller, Jon. (1966). An Experimental Theory of Style. Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University.

Philip, Robert (2004). Early Recordings and Musical Style: Changing Tastes in Instrumental Performance, 1900-1950. Cambridge University Press.

Pistone, Daniel (1995). Musique et style: Methodes et concepts. Paris: Universite de Paris IV, Observatoire Musical Francais.

Potter, John (1998). Vocal Authority: Singing Style and Ideology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Postrel, Virginia (2003). The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness. Harper Collins.

Smith, Cameron McPherson (n.d.) Style table indicating differing conceptions of style in Archaeology. http://:http://www.sfu.ca/~csmith/genstuff/academic/lab/styletable2.html

Ward, William (1970). Examples for the study of musical style. W.C. Brown.

Walton, Kendall L. (1987). Style and the products and processes of art. In: Berel Lang (Ed.) The Concept of Style. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, pp.72-103.



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