Abstract.The Nexus Network Journal Virtual Library is an annotated bibliography of books related to studies in architecture and mathematics. Books that are available for purchase are linked to Amazon.com. This page features books on music.

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Forsythe, Michael. Buildings for Music : The Architect, the Musician, and the Listener from the Seventeenth Century to the Present Day. This book is no longer in print, but you can search for a copy through Amazon.com by clicking here.

Garland, Trudi Hammel. Math and Music (Palo Alto: Dale Seymour Publications, 1995). Referenced in Mark Reynolds' article in NNJ vol. 1 no. 4.

James, Jamie. The Music of the Spheres: Music, Science and the Natural Order of the Universe. (New York: Springer Verlag, 1995).

Martin, Elizabeth, ed. Architecture as a Translation of Music. Pamphlet Architecture no. 16. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton Architectural Press, 1995)

Nicomachus. The Manual of Harmonics. F.R. Levin, trans. Grand Rapids, MI: Phanes Press (1994). Referenced in Jay Kappraff's article in the NNJ vol. 2 no. 4.

Palesca, Claude V. Humanism in Italian Musical Thought. (New Haven CT: Yale University Press, 1985). Referenced in Lionel March's article, NNJ vol. 3 no. 4.

Xenakis, Iannis. Musique. Architecture. Paris, 1976. Referenced in Liliana Curcio's report on the Nexus 2000 conference in the NNJ vol. 3 no. 1.

Xenakis, Iannis, Formalized Music : Thought and Mathematics in Composition (Harmonologia Series, No. 6) Bloomington:University of Indiana Press, 1971.

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