Kjernepensum:
- Clarke, E. And Cook, N. (eds.) (2004). Empirical Musicology: Aims, Methods, Prospects. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Cozby, Paul and Scott Bates (2011). Methods in Behavioral Research. McGraw-Hill.
- Nymoen, K. (2013): Methods and Technologies for Analysing Links Between Musical Sound and Body Motion. Doktoravhandling UiO. kapittel 2-4 (side 5-53) [PDF]
- Orio, N. (2006). Music Retrieval: A Tutorial and Review. Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval, Vol. 1, No 1, 1–90. [PDF]
For de som har tatt Lydanalyse, MUS4831:
- Müller, M. (2007). Information Retrieval for Music and Motion. Berlin: Springer Verlag, kap. 1-6. (Finnes som e-bok ved UBO.)
- Shapiro, L. (2011): Embodied Cognition. New York: Routledge.
I tillegg skal det legges opp et sidepensum som velges i samråd med faglærer med henblikk på fokus i semesteroppgaven. Her er noen forslag:
- Bregman, A. (1990). Auditory Scene Analysis. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press
- Chion, M., Gorbman, C., and Murch, W. Audio-vision: sound on screen. Columbia University Press, 1994.
- Cook, N., (1987). A Guide to Musical Analysis. Oxford: Oxford University Press (376 s)
- Godøy, R. I. and Leman, M. (eds.) (2010). Musical Gestures: Sound, Movement, and Meaning. New York: Routledge (utvalgte kapitler).
- Leman, M. (2008). Embodied Music Cognition and Mediation Technology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
- Moore, A. F. (2003). Analyzing Popular Music. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (270s)
- Sethares, W. A. (2007). Rhythm and Transforms. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.
Og denne pensumboka fra MUS4320 anbefales sterkt:
- Snyder, B. (2000). Music and Memory. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press (291s)