Introduksjon:
Ruud, Even (2016): Musikkvitenskap, Universitetsforlaget, s. 15-38, 305-316.
Historie, analyse, estetikk
Bent, Ian : "Analysis" i Grove Music Online
Bowie, Andrew/Lydia Goehr: "Aesthetics, 1750–2000" i Grove Music Online
Treitler, Leo : "The Historiography of Music: Issues of Past and Present" i Cook/Everist: Rethinking Music, 1999. Oxford University Press. S. 356 – 377.
Tilleggslitteratur: Ruud, Even (2016): Musikkvitenskap, Universitetsforlaget, s.173-275.
Musikkognitiv teori
Honing, Henkjan (2004). The comeback of systematic musicology: New empiricism and the cognitive revolution. Tijdschrift voor Muziektheorie 9(3), 241-244.
Pearce, M., & Rohrmeier, M. (2012). Music cognition and the cognitive sciences. Topics in Cognitive Science, 4(4), 468-484.
Jensenius, A. R., Wanderley, M. M., Godøy, R. I. og Leman, M.: "Musical Gestures. Concepts and Methods in Research" og Godøy, R.I.: "Gestural affordances of musical sound" i Godøy, R. I. og Leman, M. (red.): Musical Gestures: Sound, Movement, and Meaning, 2010. New York: Routledge. S. 12-35 og s. 103-125.
Keislar, Douglas (2011) "A Historical View of Computer Music Technology". Kap. 2 i Dean, Roger T. (red.) The Oxford Handbook of Computer Music. Oxford University Press.
Tilleggslitteratur: Ruud, Even (2016): Musikkvitenskap, Universitetsforlaget, s. 39-78.
Musikk, kultur, samfunn
1. Populærmusikkstudier
Moore, Allan F.: "Introduction" i Critical Essays in Popular Musicology, 2007. Ashgate. S. ix-xxii.
Toynbee, Jason: "Genre-cultures" i Making Popular Music: Musicians, Creativity and Institutions, 2000. London: Arnold. Kap. 4 (s. 102-129).
2. Musikkpedagogikk/musikkterapi
Ruud, Even (2016): Musikkvitenskap, Universitetsforlaget, s. 80-118, 276-304.
3. Musikkantropologi/musikksosiologi
Born, Georgina: "Music and the Social" i Clayton, M., Herbert, T. & Middleton, R. (red): The Cultural Study of Music: A Critical Introduction, 2nd edition, 2012. New York/London: Routledge. S. 261-274.
Geertz, Clifford: "Art as a Cultural System" i Local Knowledge: Further Essays in Interpretive Anthropology, 1983. New York: Basic Books. S. 94-120 .
Feld, Steven: "Communication, Music and Speech about Music" i Feld, Steven & Keil, Charles: Music Grooves, 1994. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. S. 77-95.
Lysloff, René T. A.: "Musical Life in Softcity: An Internet Ethnography" i Lysloff, René T. A. & Gay, Jr., Leslie C. (red): Music and Technoculture, 2003. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press. S. 23-63.
McCormick, Lisa: "Music Sociology in a New Key" i Alexander, J. C., Jacobs, R. N. & Smith, P. (red): The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Sociology. 2012, Oxford University Press, s. 722-742.
Sheperd, John & Devine, Kyle: "Introduction: Music and the Sociological Imagination–Pasts and Prospects" i Sheperd, J. & Devine, K. (red): The Routledge Reader of the Sociology of Music, 2015, Routledge, s. 1-21.
Tilleggslitteratur: Ruud, Even (2016): Musikkvitenskap, Universitetsforlaget, s. 119-171.
4. Musikk og medier
Danielsen, Anne & Maasø, Arnt (2009). Mediating Music: materiality and silence in Madonna's 'Don't Tell Me'. Popular Music. 28(2), 127-142.
Frith, Simon (2004). Music and the Media, i S. Frith og L. Marshall (red.) Music and Copyright, New York: Routledge, 171-188.