Colles, Henry Cope (1978). The Growth of Music: A Study in Musical History, 4th ed., London; New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN0-19-316116-8 (1913 edition online at Google Books)
Harwood, Dane (1976). "Universals in Music: A Perspective from Cognitive Psychology," Ethnomusicology 20, no. 3:521–33.
Small, Christopher (1977). Music, Society, Education. John Calder Publishers, London. ISBN0-7145-3614-8
Dolmetsch free online music dictionary, complete, with references to a list of specialised music dictionaries (by continent, by instrument, by genre, etc.)
"On Hermeneutical Ethics and Education: Bach als Erzieher", a paper by Prof. Miguel Ángel Quintana Paz in which he explains the history of the different views hold about music in Western societies, since the Ancient Greece to our days.