Литература
Когда появилась музыка?
Blacking, J.: How Musical is Man? University of Washington Press, Seattle, USA, 1973.
Дарвин Ч. Происхождение видов. — М.: Эксмо, 2016.
Mithen, S. J.: The Singing Neanderthals: the Origins of Music, Language, Mind and Body. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 2006.
Trevarthen, C.: «Musicality and the intrinsic motive pulse: evidence from human psychobiology and infant communication». Musicae Scienticae, 1999; 3: 155–215.
Winkler, I., Haden, G. P., Ladinig, O., Sziller, I. og Honing, H.: «Newborn infants detect the beat in music». Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2009; 106: 2468–2471.
От волн в воздухе — к электрическим импульсам в мозге
Clack, J. A.: «Patterns and processes in the early evolution of the tetrapod ear». Journal of Neurobiology 2002; 53: 251–64.
Ericsson, A. og Pool, R.: Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise. Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016.
О важности обертонов
Deutsch, D.: «The Tritone Paradox: An Influence of Language on Music Perception». Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal 1991, 8: 335–347.
Loui, P., Zamm, A. og Schlaug, G.: «Absolute pitch and synaesthesia: Two sides of the same coin? Shared and distinct neural substrates of music listening». International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition 2012: 618–623.
Mulvenna, C. M.: «Synaesthesia, the arts and creativity: a neurological connection». Frontiers of Neurology and Neuroscience 2007; 22:206–222.
Ramachandran, V. S. og Hubbard, E. M.: «Synaesthesia: A window into perception, thought and language». Journal of Consciousness Studies 2001; 8: 3–34.
Tan, Y. T., McPherson, G. E., Peretz, I., Berkovic, S. F. og Wilson, S. J.: «The genetic basis of music ability». Frontiers of Psychology 2014; 27: 658. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00658.
От тона — к тембру, мелодии и гармонии