📜 Bloomfield, Daniel. 1910. Games and puzzles for the musical: a collection of the best games, puzzles, etc., for musical clubs and the home. Philadelphia: Theodore Presser. https://archive.org/details/gamespuzzlesform00bloo/page/n3
✱ Pauline Oliveros
✱ Walter Thompson
✱ Carole Finer
✱ Cornelius Cardew
- J. Huizinga, Homo Ludens (review)
✱ Dick Higgins
✱ Frederic Rzewski
✱ Howard Skempton
✱ Lawrence ‘Butch’ Morris
✱ Richard Reason
✱ Jeffrey Agrell
✱ Alan Brett
✱ Elliott Sharp
✱ Carl Bergstrøm-Nielsen
✱ Bobby McFerrin
- Klavierstück XI (music)
- 4′33″ (music)
- Third Piano Sonata (music)
- Sequenza I For Flute (music)
📜 Caillois, Roger. 2021 [1958]. Man, Play and Games. Translated by Meyer Barash. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press
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- Song of Uncertain Length (sub)
- Opus 25 (E. Andersen) (sub)
✱ Mathius Shadow-Sky
✱ Bruno Faidutti
✱ Henrik Ehland Rasmussen
✱ Michael Pisaro
📜 Cage, John. 1973 [1961]. Silence. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press.
- 0' 00'' (sub)
- In Unison (E. Williams) (sub)
- Event:10 (sub)
- Ten Arrangements for Five Performers (sub)
- Piece for Any Number of Vocalists (sub)
- Something Else Press (wiki)
- Organic Music (sub)
- Rounds (music)
- Whoop Event (sub)
- Symphony No.3, Fluxversion 1 (sub)
- In C (Terry Riley) (wiki)
- Calls, Canto 6 (sub)
- Calls, Canto 5 (sub)
- For a Drummer (for Eric) (sub)
- Zen Vaudeville (sub)
- Choice 10 (R. Bozzi) (sub)
- Any Five (music)
- Sound Patterns I (music)
- Reunion (music)
- Stones (C. Wolff) (activity)
📜 Eco, Umberto. 1989 [1968]. The Open Work. Translated by Anna Cancogni. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
- Games For Musicians (Richard Reason) (wiki)
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- Les Moutons de Panurge (Frederic Rzewski) (wiki)
📜 Cardew, Cornelius. 1969. “A Scratch Orchestra: Draft Constitution.” The Musical Times, Vol. 110, No. 1516, 125th Anniversary Issue, June: 617-619.
- Fun For All The Family (music)
- 100 Yard Metronome Run (sub)
📜 Barthes, Roland. 1971. Image Music Text. Translated by Stephen Heath. London: Fontana Press.
📜 Xenakis, Iannis. 1971. Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
- Klarina (music)
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📜 Stuart, Wendy Bross. 1974. "Coast Salish Gambling Music." Canadian Folk Music Journal, vol. 2: 3-12. https://cjtm.icaap.org/content/2/v2art2.html
📜 Nyman, Michael. 1999 [1974]. Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Oblique Strategies (wiki)
- Textmusic 3 (game)
📜 Bryars, Gavin, Christopher Hobbs, and Michael Nyman. 1975. Experimental Music Catalogue 1975, London: Experimental Music Catalogue
📜 Fleugelman, Andrew, ed. 1976. The New Games Book. San Francisco: The Headlands Press, Inc.
- Jai Alai (music)
- Track and Field (music)
- Locus Salus (music)
- Sebastopol (music)
📜 Flusser, Elisabeth. 1983. “Approche du Jeu Musical.” Thesis for the musician-animator diploma, Chalon/Saone.
- Cobra (music)
- Dragons of Despair (link)
- Hu Die (music)
- Music for People (wiki)
- Ruan Lingyu (music)
- Possible Flux Performance or Postfluxgame (sub)
- Hwang Chin-ee (music)
- Que Tran (music)
- Noteability (link)
📜 Mathieu, William Allaudin. 1991. The Listening Book: Discovering Your Own Music. Boulder, Colorado: Shambhala Publications.
📜 Brotchie, Alistair. 1995. A Book of Surrealist Games. Boston & London: Shambhala Publications.
📜 Williams, Alastair. 1995. New Music and the Claims of Modernity. New York: Routledge.
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📜 Nattiez, Jean-Jacques. 1999. “Inuit Throat-Games and Siberian Throat Singing: A Comparative, Historical, and Semiological Approach.” Ethnomusicology, Autumn, Vol. 43, No. 3: 399-418. Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press on behalf of Society for Ethnomusicology.
- Hossa! (link)
- Board Game Geek (wiki)
- Igloo Pop (link)
- Play that Tune (link)
📜 Salen, Katie, and Eric Zimmerman. 2003. Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.
📜 Cox, Christoph and Daniel Warner, eds. 2004. Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music. New York: Continuum
- Flail and Wail (link)
- Are You Phrazy? Holiday Carols Edition (link)
📜 Adamowicz, Elza. 2005. Surrealist Collage in Text and Image: Dissecting the Exquisite Corpse. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
📜 Havriliv, Mark. 2005. “Playing with Audio: The Relationship Between Music and Games.” Master's thesis, University of Wollongong.
https://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1761&context=theses
- Cinematique (link)
📜 Brown, Harko. 2006. Traditional Maori Games. n.p.
https://www.wavesouthcanterbury.co.nz/media/4693/tmgharkobrown160120.pdf
📜 Chase, Stephen Timothy. 2006. “Improvised Experimental Music and the Construction of a Collaborative Aesthetic.” PhD diss., University of Sheffield.
https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/14904/1/440929.pdf
📜 Bergstrøm-Nielsen, Carl. 2006. Sound is Multi-Dimensional: Parameter analysis as a tool for creative music making. https://vbn.aau.dk/da/publications/sound-is-multi-dimensional-parameter-analysis-as-a-tool-for-creat
- Sea Dracula (link)
- Rock the Beat (link)
- Cacophony (link)
- Dixit (link)
📜 Kayali, Fares. 2008. “Playing Music: Design, Theory, and Practice of Music-based Games.” PhD diss., Vienna University of Technology. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12708/13412
📜 Brackett, John Lowell. 2008. John Zorn: Tradition and Transgression. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
📜 Agrell, Jeffrey. 2008. Improvisation Games for Classical Musicians. Chicago: GIA Publications.
- Das Neunundneunzigmusikspiel (link)
- Muzundrum (link)
- Synzine magazine (wiki)
- M. Pisaro, Writing, Music (fragment, 2009) (source)
📜 Kochhar-Lindgren, Kanta, Davis Schneiderman, and Tom Denlinger, eds. 2009. The Exquisite Corpse: Chance and Collaboration in Surrealism’s Parlor Game., Lincoln & London: University of Nebraska Press.
📜 Flanagan, Mary. 2009. Critical Play: Radical Game Design. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.
- Spontuneous (link)
📜 Smith, Julian. 2010. “Reunion: Duchamp, Cage and Ludology.” Master's thesis, York University. https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/thesescanada/vol2/002/MR62326.PDF
- Card Games (music)
- Ooga Booga (link)
- Improvisation & Composition Inspiration Cards (link)
- The Daily Create (wiki)
- A Clave de Candombe (link)
- Disquiet Junto (wiki)
- Juego de Tonos (link)
- Music Rocks (link)
- Itch.io (wiki)
- Jazz: The Singing Card Game (link)
- Karaokards (link)
📜 Upton, Elizabeth Randell. 2013. Music and Performance in Later Middle Ages, New York: Pelgrave Macmillan.
📜 Hermans, Phillip. 2013. “Cooperation and Competition in Music Composition.” Master's thesis, Dartmouth College. http://philliphermans.com/scores/Hermans%20MA%20Thesis.pdf
- Do It for the Music (link)
- Art of Noises (link)
📜 Cheng, William. 2014. Sound Play: Video Games and the Musical Imagination. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Biff Baff (link)
- Tonic (Card Set) (wiki)
📜 Schleuse, Paul. 2015. Singing Games in Early Modern Italy: The Music Books of Orazzio Vecchi. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press
📜 Upton, Brian. 2015 The Aesthetic of Play. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.
📜 Sharp, John. 2015. Works of Game: On the Aesthetics of Games and Art. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.
- Pass The Sound series (wiki)
- Composition Exercises (Tobias Reber) (wiki)
📜 Moseley, Roger. 2016. Keys to Play: Music as a Ludic Medium from Apollo to Nintendo. Oakland: University of California Press. http://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.16
📜 Corbett, John. 2016. A Listener's Guide to Free Improvisation, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
- Muse (link)
📜 Bergstrøm-Nielsen, Carl. 2017. “RABR Analysis – Rating Degrees of Openness in Experimental Repertory”. Preprint. https://vbn.aau.dk/da/publications/rabr-analysis-rating-degrees-of-openness-in-experimental-repertor
📜 Weiss, Philipp. 2017. “Game Pieces and Game Elements.” Master's thesis, Royal Conservatoire The Hague. http://sonology.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Thesis-Philipp_Weiss-Final.pdf
- Empty Orchestra (link)
- Noisy Neighbors (link)
- Music Weeklies (wiki)
📜 Barboza, Joab da Silva. 2018. “Jogos e música em publicações da ABEM e da ANPPOM.” Master's thesis, Universidade Estadual Paulista. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/157171
📜 Szczelkun, Stefan. 2018. Improvisation Rites: from John Cage’s ’Song Books’ to the Scratch Orchestra’s ‘Nature Study Notes’. Collective practices 2011-2017. London: Routine Art Co.
📜 Shadow-Sky, Mathius. 2018. The Book of Ephemerodes. Berlin: Éditions AquAvivA.
- Berridos (link)
- CopyCat (link)
- Orchestrion (link)
- Mixtape (link)
- Music, A Role-Playing Game (link)
- Nebuta Beat (link)
- FiveLines (link)
- Improvised Music - Open Scores (wiki)
- Fairy Prank (link)
- Swan Song (link)
- Cascade (link)
- If It Wasn't For... (link)
- Sing Out (link)
- Jammonit! (link)
- Silent Prayer (link)
- Heroic Echoic (link)
- Drakkar Tum Tum (link)
- Instant Songs (link)
- Etudes (link)
- Patch: The Card Game (link)
- Scherzando (link)
- Language music for gamers workshop (event)
- Synzine#13 (wiki co-op issue) (ep)
- Auki Live! + Jamming Session (event)
- Gaudeamus Muziekweek / Screen Dive (event)
📜 O'Neill, Matthew. 2020. “Facilitating an Empirical Understanding of the Free Improvisation Environment: A Progressive Set of Games focusing on Listening, Space, and Feedback.” PhD diss., Texas Tech University. https://hdl.handle.net/2346/86689
- Music Doctor Improv Cards and Picture Prompts (link)
- What's That Sound? (link)
- Songnario (link)
- Symphony (link)
- Tasty Score (link)
- Tempo (link)
- Wee Whimsical Creatures (link)
- Hard to be the Bard (link)
- Our People's Song (link)
- Musical Multiverse of Mayhem (link)
- Game Design for Composers workshop (online) (event)
📜 Taylor, Coty. 2021. “Playing Music: A Curricular Outline for Music Learned Through Improvisatory Games.” Master's thesis, Indiana University.
https://scholarworks.iu.edu/iuswrrest/api/core/bitstreams/af1e094b-f612-48a3-a391-0970f9cf7e3a/content
- echoes: The Dancer (link)
- Burmeister cards (link)
- Guitar Craft Aphorisms (link)
- Wordy Connections (link)
- Music Bravo (link)
- Music City (link)
- Space Rock Opera (link)
- Coma Glasgow Open Score Club plays Games for Music (event)
📜 DiPiero, Dan. 2022. Contingent Encounters: Improvisation In Music and Everyday Life. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press. https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.12066852.
📜 Cubitt, Edward, 2022. Music is Easy: A Flow-state Music Learning Method. Self-published, Edward Cubitt.
- Cowlien (link)
- Songwriting Cards (link)
📜 French, Izabelle. 2023. “Playing Music: Reconsidering Game Pieces Through Tabletop Roleplaying Game Design.” Bachelor's thesis, Edith Cowan University. https://doi.org/10.25958/998d-3z69
📜 Chou, Gabrielle. 2023. “Play Makes Perfect: An Exploration of Game and Play Elements in Composition and Performance.” PhD diss., City University of New York.
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6458&context=gc_etds
📜 ash, honor. 2024. “Fear, play and getting things wrong: Understanding emotional responses when collaborating in improvised music settings.” Master's thesis, Middlesex University.
https://hnr.fyi/fear_play_getting_things_wrong/