Books by Kyle Gann:
The Arithmetic of Listening: Tuning Theory & History for the Impractical Musician (University of Illinois Press, 2019)	Charles Ives's Concord: Essays After a Sonata (University of Illinois Press, 2017)	Robert Ashley: (American Composers) (University of Illinois Press, 2012)	No Such Thing as Silence: John Cage's 4'33" (Yale University Press, 2010)	Music Downtown: Writings from the Village Voice (University of California Press, 2006)
American Music in the Twentieth Century (Schirmer Books, 1997)	The Music of Conlon Nancarrow (Cambridge University Press, 1995)
Books with forewords, chapters, or articles by Kyle Gann:
Mikel Rouse: The World Got Away: A Memoir (U. of Illinois, 2024), Foreword by Gann	Cambridge History of the American Essay (Cambridge, 2023) with Gann's "The Essay in American Music"	Ein Konzert Ist Eine Feuerstelle: Die Komponistin Maria de Alvear (Wolke Verlag, 2021) with Gann's "I Have to Be a Messenger to my People: A Tribute to Maria de Alvear"	Einstein on the Beach: Opera Beyond Drama (Ashgate Press, 2019) with Gann's "Intuition and Algorithm in Einstein on the Beach"	Beyond Notation: The Music of Earle Brown (University of Michigan Press, 2018) with Gann's "Earle Brown: A Less Cloistered Music"
Gay Guerilla: Julius Eastman and his Music (University of Rochester Press, 2015)	Cage 100: "Silence in the Rearview Mirror" by Kyle Gann (Osrodek Miedzukulturowyc Inicjatyw Tworzcych Rodroza, 2015)	The Ashgate Research Companion to Minimalist and Postminimalist Music (Ashgate Press, 2013)	Silence by John Cage, 50th-anniversary edition; Foreword by Kyle Gann (Wesleyan University Press, 2011)	Perfect Lives by Robert Ashley; Foreword by Kyle Gann (Dalkey Archives Press, 2011)
The Farthest Place: The Music of John Luther Adans, edited by Bernd Herzogenrath; "Time at the End of the World: The Orchestral Tetralogy of John Luther Adams" by Kyle Gann (Northeastern Press, 2011)	Trimpin: Contraptions for Art and Sound, edited by Anne Focke; "Trimpin, Nancarrow, and the Transfer of Memory" by Kyle Gann (Marquand Books, 2011)	Edgard Varese: Composer, Sound Sculptor, Visionary, edited by Felix Meyer and Heidi Zimmermann; "Magnificent - in a Mysterious Way: Varese's Impact on American Music" by Kyle Gann (Boydell Press, 2004)	Winter Music: Composing the North, by John Luther Adams; Foreword by Kyle Gann (Wesleyan University Press, 2004)	Essential Cowell edited by Dick Higgins; Preface by Kyle Gann (McPherson Press, 2002)
The Cambridge Companion to John Cage, edited by David Nicholls; "No Escape from Heaven: John Cage as Father Figure," by Kyle Gann (Cambridge University Press, 2002)	Music in the United States, by H. Wiley Hitchcock with Kyle Gann (Prentice Hall, 1999)	The Whole World of Music: A Henry Cowell Symposium, edited by David Nicholls; "Subversive Prophet: Henry Cowell as Theorist and Critic" by Kyle Gann (Prentice Hall, 1999)	Sound and Light: La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela, edited by William Duckworth and Richard Fleming; "The Outer Edge of Consonance," by Kyle Gann (Bucknell University Press, 1996)
Kyle Gann as music editor:
George Bristow: Symphony No. 4 edited by Katherine Preston and Kyle Gann (A-R Editions, 2024)
Books reprinting articles by Kyle Gann:
Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music; edited by Cristoph Cox and Daniel Warner; "Thankless Attempts at a Definition of Minimalism" by Kyle Gann (Continuum Books, 2004)	Writings on Glass: Essays, Interviews, Criticism, edited by Richard Kostelanetz; "Midtown Avant-Gardist" by Kyle Gann (Schirmer Books, 1997; University of California Press, 1999)	Meredith Monk, edited by Deborah Jowitt; "Ancient Lullabies" by Kyle Gann (PAJ Books: Art + Performance, 1997)	4'33": Sounds Like Silence, edited by Dieter Daniels; "John Cage's 4'33": The Legacy" by Kyle Gann (Spector Books, 2018)
Translations:
Il Silenzio non Esiste John Cage's 4'33" (Isbn Edizioni, 2010)	No Silence: 4'33" de John Cage (Editions Allia, 2014)	La musica de Conlon Nancarrow (University of Mexico, 2008)

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