一、外文書目(依作者姓氏字母順序排列)
Bailey, Derek. Improvisation: Its Nature and Practice in Music. New York: Da Capo Press, 1992.
Berliner, Paul. Thinking in Jazz: The Infinite Art of Improvisation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.
Cage, John and Reynolds, Roger. 1979. “A Conversation.” The Musical Quarterly 65(4):573-593.
Cage, John. and Daniel Charles. For the Birds: John Cage in Conversation with DanielCharles. New Hampshire: Marion Boyars Publishers, 1981.
Cage, John. R. Andrew Maass, and Irwin Kremen. The Black Mountain Connection: John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Irwin Kremen, M.C.
Cage, John. and Joan Retallack. Musicage: Cage Muses on Words, Art, Music. Hanover: Wesleyan University Press, 1996.
Cage, John.1961. Silence. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press.
Cage, John. 1971. Sixty-two Mesostics Re Merce Cunningham. New York: Henmar Press.
Cage, John. 1990. I-VI. The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, 1988-89. Middletown:
Wesleyan University Press.
Cage, John. 1993. Composition in Retrospect. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Exact Change.
Campana, Deborah. 1985. Form and Structure in the Music of John Cage, Ph.D.
Ferand, Ernst T. Die Improvisation in der Musik. Zurich: Rhein-Verlag, 1938.
Ferand, Ernst T. Improvisation in Music History and Education. MTNA (Music Teachers National Association) Proceedings, 1940, 274-286.
Fetterman, William. John Cage''s Theatre Pieces: Notations and Performances. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1996.
Fleming, Richard, and William Duckworth, eds. John Cage at Seventy-Five. Lewisburg: Associated University Presses, 1989.
Holmes, Thom. 1981. “The Cage Interview.” Recordings 3(3):2-5.
Nooshin, Lauda. “Improvisation as ‘Other’: Creativity, Knowledge & Power — The Case of Iranian Classical Music”. Journal of the Royal Musical Association (2003): 128-296.
Viswanathan, T.. “The Analysis of Raga Alapana in South Indian Music”. Asian Music Vol. 9, No. 1 (1977), Second India Issue, 13-71.
二、中文書目 (依作者姓氏筆畫順序排列)
王正凱。《周易本論》。台北 : 北開文化,1985。
南懷瑾。《易經雜說(一)—易經哲學之研究》。台北 : 古老文化,1987。
鈴木大拙。《禪佛教入門》。李世傑 譯。台北 : 協志出版社,1970。
三、中文研究報告、期刊 (依作者姓氏筆畫順序排列)
王婷。〈約翰˙凱基預置鋼琴研究〉高雄市:國立中山大學音樂研究所碩士論文,2009。余丹紅。〈從預制鋼琴到《4 分 33 秒》〉。《音樂藝術:上海音樂學院學報》No.1(2000): 54-64。
呂佳靜。〈Marcel Duchamp對John Cage的影響─從未來主義和達達主義談起〉。台北市:國立台北藝術大學音樂研究所碩士論文。1999。張春梅。〈東方哲學在凱吉 ( John Cage ) 作品中的實踐:以《變化的音樂》( Music of Changes )為例〉。台北市:國立台灣師範大學民族音樂研究所碩士論文。2008。劉新圓。〈音樂即興:理論與實務初探〉。台北市:國立台灣師範大學音樂研究所博士論文。2011。顏崇勝。〈機遇音樂探究〉。台北市:國立台灣師範大學民族音樂系碩士論文。2004。