Author: Adams, Robert Train.
Title: Electronic Music Composition for Beginners
Imprint: Dubuque, IA : Wm. C. Brown, 1986.

Author: Pellman, Samuel
Title: An Introduction to the Creation of Electroacoustic Music
Imprint: Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1994.

Author: Wishart, Trevor
Title: Audible Design.
Imprint: Orpheus the Pantomime, Ltd., York, Y01 5AX, UK, 1994.

Title: The Development and Practice of Electronic Music.
Editors: Jon H. Appleton and Ronald C. Perera.
Imprint: Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Prentice-Hall, 1975.

Author: Cary, Tristram.
Title: Dictionary of Musical Technology.
Imprint: New York: Greenwood Press, 1992.

Author: Cope, David.
Title: New Directions in Music / 6th ed.
Imprint: Dubuque, IA : W.C. Brown, 1989.

Author: Davies, Hugh.
Title: Repertoire international des musiques electroacoustiques. International electronic music catalog. A cooperative publication of le Groupe de recherches musicales de l'O. R. T. F., Paris and the Independent Electronic Music Center, New York.
Imprint: Cambridge, MA, Distributed by M.I.T. Press, 1968.

Author: Dobson, Richard.
Title: A Dictionary of Electronic and Computer Music Technology: Instruments, Terms, Techniques.
Imprint: Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.

Title: The Language of Electroacoustic Music.
Editor: Simon Emmerson.
Imprint: New York: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1986.

Author: Griffiths, Paul.
Title: A Guide to Electronic Music.
Imprint: New York: Thames and Hudson, 1979.

Author: Griffths, Paul.
Title: Modern Music: A Concise History/ revised edition
Imprint: New York: Thames and Hudson, 1994.

Title: On the Wires of Our Nerves: the Art of Electroacoustic Music.
Editor: Robin Julian Heifetz.
Imprint: Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press; London; Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Presses, 1989.

Author: Russcol, Herbert.
Title: The Liberation of Sound: an Introduction to Electronic Music.
Imprint: Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice Hall, 1972.

Author: Schwartz, Elliott.
Title: Electronic Music : a Listener's Guide.
Imprint: New York: Da Capo Press, revised edition 1989.

Author: Tkepkema, Sandra L.
Title: A Bibliography of Computer Music.
Imprint: Iowa: University of Iowa Press, 1974.

Author: Anderton, Craig.
Title: MIDI for Musicians
Imprint: New York : Amsco Publications, 1986.

Author: De Furia, Steve.
Title: The MIDI Implementation Book
Imprint: Pompton Lakes, NJ: Third Earth Publishing: distributed exclusively by Hal Leonard Books, 1986.
Series: Ferro Music Technology Series.

Author: De Furia, Steve.
Title: The MIDI Resource Book.
Imprint: Pompton Lakes, NJ: Third Earth Publishing: Distributed by Hal Leonard Books, 1987.
Series: Ferro Music Technology Series.

Author: Jungleib, Stanley.
Title: General MIDI
Imprint:

Author: Lehrman and Tully.
Title: MIDI for the Professional
Imprint:

Author: Rona, Jeffrey C.
Title: MIDI, the Ins, Outs & Thrus
Imprint: Milwaukee, WI. : H. Leonard Books, 1987.

Author: Rona, Jeffrey C.
Title: Synchronization, From Reel to Reel
Imprint:

Author: Rothstein, Joseph
Title: MIDI: A Comprehensive Introduction
Imprint:

Author: Dodge, Charles and Thomas A. Jerse.
Title: Computer Music : Synthesis, Composition, and Performance
Imprint: New York : Schirmer Books, 1985.

Title: Foundations of Computer Music
Edited by Curtis Roads, John Strawn.
Imprint: Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, 1985.

Author: Hiller, Lejaren and Leonard Isaacson.
Title: Experimental Music
Imprint: New York, 1959.

Title: Music by Computers.
Editors: J.W. Beauchamp and Von Foerster.
Imprint: New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1969.

Author: Xenakis, Iannis.
Title: Formalized Music
Imprint: Bloomington, IN, 1971.

Author: Naumann, Joel.
Title: Analog Electronic Music Techniques : in Tape, Electronic, and Voltage-Controlled Synthesizer Studios
Imprint: New York : Schirmer Books, 1984.

Author: Strange, Allen.
Title: Electronic Music; Systems, Techniques, and Controls.
Imprint: Dubuque, IA, W. C. Brown Co., 1972.

Author: Vail, Mark.
Title: Vintage Synthesizers: Groundbreaking Instruments and Pioneering Designers of Electronic Music Synthesizers.
Imprint: San Francisco: GPI Books; Emeryville, CA: distributed to the book trade in the U.S. and Canada by Publishers Group West, 1993.

Author: Bartlett, Bruce and Jenny.
Title: Practical Recording Techniques
Imprint:

Author: Borwick, John.
Title: Microphones: Technology and Technique
Imprint:

Author: Davis and Jones.
Title: Sound Reinforcement Handbook, 2nd Ed.
Imprint:

Author: Eargle, John.
Title: Handbook of Recording Engineering, 3rd Ed.
Imprint:

Author: Huber and Runstein
Title: Modern Recording Techniques, 4th Ed.
Imprint:

Author: Pohlman, Ken C.
Title: Principles of Digital Audio
Imprint:

Author: Yavelow, Christopher.
Title: Macworld Music and Sound Bible
Imprint:

Author: Bachus, John.
Title: The Acoustic Foundations of Music
Imprint: New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1969.

Author: Helmholtz, Hermann.
Title: On the Sensations of Tone. translated by A.J. Ellis.
Imprint: New York: Dover Publications, 1954.

Author: Roederer, Juan.
Title: Introduction to the Physics and Pyschophysics of Music.
Imprint: New York, Heidelberg, Berlin: Spring-Verlag, 1973.

Author: Winckel, Fritz.
Title: Music, Sound and Sensation., translated by T. Binkley.
Imprint: New York: Dover Publications, 1967.

Author: Cleaver, Dale G. and John M. Eddins
Title: Art and Music
Imprint: New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1977.

Title: Multimedia Demystified
From Apple Computer, Inc.
Imprint:

Author: Pellegrino, Ronald.
Title: The Electronic Arts of Sound and Light.
Imprint: New Yor : Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1983.

Author: Whitney, John.
Title: Digital Harmony: On the Complementarity of Music and Visual Art.
Imprint: Peterborough, NH: Byte Books, a McGraw-Hill Publication, 1980.

Author: Wold, Milo and Edmund Cykler.
Title: An Introduction to Music and Art in the Western World.
Imprint: Dubuque, IA: Wm. C. Brown Company, 1967.

Producer: KIQ Productions.
Title: Golden Ears Audio Training Program
there are four volumes, the total package is $220.00, but you can buy two volumes at a time for $120.00.

George Antheil

Author: Antheil, George.
Title: Bad Boy of Music
Imprint: Garden City, NJ, 1945.

Author: Ezra Pound.
Title: Antheil and the Treatise on Harmony
Imprint: Chicago, 1927.

Pierre Boulez

Author: Boulez, Pierre.
Title: Notes of an Apprenticeship
Imprint: New York, 1968.

Author: Boulez, Pierre.
Title: Boulez on Music Today
Imprint: London, 1971.

Author: Boulez, Pierre.
Title: Conversations with Celestin Deliege
Imprint: London, 1977.

Author: Boulez, Pierre.
Title: Orientations
Imprint: London, 1986.

Author: Boulez, Pierre.
Title: Stocktakings from an Apprenticeship
Imprint: Oxford, 1991.

Author: Griffths, Paul.
Title: Boulez
Imprint: London, 1978.

Luciano Berio

Title: Luciano Berio: Two Interviews
Editor: Osmond-Smith, David.
Imprint: London, 1985.

Author: Osmond-Smith, David.
Title: Berio
Imprint: Oxford, 1991.

Ferruccio Busoni

Author: Beaumont, Antony.
Title: Busoni the Composer
Imprint: London, 1985.

Author: Busoni, Ferruccio.
Title: Sketch of a New Aesthetic
Imprint: original edition, New York 1911.

Author: Dent, Edward J.
Title: Ferruccio Busoni
Imprint: London, 1974.

John Cage

Author: Cage, John.
Title: Silence
Imprint: Middletown, CN, 1961.

Author: Cage.
Title: A Year from Monody
Imprint: Middletown, CN, 1967.

Author: Cage.
Title: For the Birds
Imprint: London, 1981.

Title: John Cage
Editor: Kostelanetz, Richard
Imprint: New York, 1970.

Hugh Le Caine

Author: Young, Gayle.
Title: The Sackbut Blues: Hugh Le Caine, Pioneer in Electronic Music.
Imprint: Ottawa: National Museum of Science and Technology, 1989.

Karlheinz Stockhausen

Author: Harvey, Jonathan.
Title: The Music of Stockhausen: An Introduction
Imprint: London, 1974.

Author: Maconie, Robin.
Title: The Works of Karlheinz Stockhausen/ second edition
Imprint: London, 1991.

Edgard Varese

Author: Varese, Louise.
Title: Varese: A Looking-Glass Diary
Imprint: New York, 1972.

You should be able to find many of these books in a local bookstore (or they can order them for you). Besides the local bookstore, probably the best source for ordering books and sound libraries, is Amazon. If you also check BookArea, the site will price out all of the best prices from websources around the world.

Frogpeak is a great source for avant garde music. The company specializes in electro-acoustic music, and has the entire collection of Kenneth Gaburo scores and recordings, and Soundhack software. They sell recordings, scores, books, and software. You can get on their mailing list by checking out their web page, http://www.sover.net/~frogpeak/.