Department of Music modules - recommended reading for our two undergraduate courses: BA in Music and BA in Music Technology
These books are recommended because they help you prepare for and support your learning in the following selected Music Department modules (note that detailed week by week reading lists will be available online via Study Direct).
If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact the Music Coordinator, Mr Terry Bryan (t.j.bryan@sussex.ac.uk) or the Head of Music, Dr Ed
Hughes (e.d.hughes@sussex.ac.uk).
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Year 1 Autumn Term
Introduction to Music Studies (W3056) [Core for Music; Option for Music
Technology]
Harper-Scott, J P E, Samson, Jim. 2009. An Introduction to Music Studies.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Instruments, Voices and Orchestration (W3076) [Core for Music; Option for
Music Technology]
Blatter, Alfred. 1997. Instrumentation and Orchestration. Boston: Wadsworth
Publishing.
History and Practice of Electronic Music (W3078) [Core for Music
Technology; Option for Music]
Collins, N., Schedel, M. and Wilson, S. 2013. Electronic Music. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.
Escriván, Julio d', Collins, Nick, The Cambridge Companion to Electronic Music.
CUP, 2007
Studio Recording (W3080) [Core for Music Technology; Option for Music]
Huber and Runstien, 2014. Modern Recording Techniques. Focal Press. 8th edition. d'Escrivan, Julio, 2009. Music Technology. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press.
Popular Music Cultures (W3052) [Option for Music; Option for Music
Technology]
Keith Negus, Popular Music in Theory: An Introduction (Cambridge: Polity Press:
2001)
Andy Bennett, Barry Shank and Jason Toynbee (eds), The Popular Music Studies
Reader (London: Routledge, 2006).

Year 1 Spring Term
Approaches to Composition and Performance (W3035) [Core for Music;
Option for Music Technology]
Wilkins, M L, 2006. Creative Music Composition (London: Routledge, 2006)
Music and Society (W3057) [Core for Music; Option for Music Technology]
Small, C. Musicking: The Meanings of Performing and Listening, Hanover &
London: Wesleyan University Press, 1998
Attali, J. Noise: The Political Economy of Music, Minneapolis & London:
University of Minnesota Press, 1985
Creative Music Technologies (W3077) [Core for Music Technology; Option for Music]
Hugill, Andrew, The Digital Musician, London: Routledge, 2007.
Collins, Nick. Introduction to Computer Music, Chicester: Wiley, 2010.
Music Production (W3079) [Core for Music Technology; Option for Music]
Moorefield, Virgil. 2010. The Producer as a Composer. Cambridge MI: MIT Press. d'Escrivan. Julio, 2012. Music Technology. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press.
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Year 2 Autumn Term
The Rise of Classical Music (W3031) [Core for Music; Option for Music
Technology]
Carl Dahlhaus, Nineteenth-Century Music (Berkeley: California University Press,
1989)
Charles Rosen, The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven (London:
Faber,1997)
Music, Stage and Screen 1: from opera to film (W3002) [Option for Music;
Option for Music Technology]
Cooke, M.J., A History of Film Music (Cambridge University Press, 2008)
Cook, Nicholas, Analysing Musical Multimedia (Oxford University Press, 2000)
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Year 3 Autumn Term
Dissertation: Historical and Contextual (Music) (W3072)
Dissertation (Music Technologies) (W3086)
Nicholas Cook and Mark Everist (1999). Rethinking music. Oxford, Oxford
University Press.
David Beard and Kenneth Gloag (2005). Musicology: the key concepts. London,
Routledge.
Year 3 Spring Term
Dissertation: Case Studies (W3071) [Option for Music; Option for Music
Technology]
Nicholas Cook and Mark Everist (1999). Rethinking music. Oxford, Oxford
University Press.
David Beard and Kenneth Gloag (2005). Musicology: the key concepts. London,
Routledge.