A Short Bibliography of Pentatonic Music

Beament, James. How We Hear Music: The Relationship between Music and the Hearing Mechanism.
Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2001.
Bradford, Louise Larkins. Sing It Yourself: 220 Pentatonic American Folk Songs. Sherman Oaks, CA:
Alfred Pub., 1978.
Connell, Jeremy. Pentatonicism from the Eighteenth Century to Debussy. Rochester, NY: University of
Rochester Press, 2007
Horn, Dorothy D. 1958. Quartal harmony in the pentatonic folk hymns of the Sacred Harps.
[Philadelphia]: [American Folklore Society].
Kostka, Stefan M., and Dorothy Payne. 2004. Tonal harmony, with an introduction to twentieth-century
music. Boston: McGraw-Hill.
Khan, Steve. Pentatonic Khancepts. United States: Alfred Publishing, 2002.
Kodaly, Zoltan. 1969. Pentatonic music. [London]: Boosey & Hawkes.
Ricker, Ramon. Pentatonic Scales for Jazz Improvisation. Hialeah, Fla.; Miami, FL: Studio P/R ;
Columbia Pictures Publications, 1976.