Editing Pentatonic scale (section)

== Further reading ==
* Jeff Burns, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=UK4NAAAACAAJ Pentatonic Scales for the Jazz-Rock Keyboardist]'' (Lebanon, Indiana: Houston Publishing, 1997). {{ISBN|978-0-7935-7679-1}}.
* Jeremy Day-O'Connell, [http://www.urpress.com/store/viewItem.asp?idProduct=10903''Pentatonicism from the Eighteenth Century to Debussy''] (Rochester: University of Rochester Press 2007) – the first comprehensive account of the increasing use of the pentatonic scale in 19th-century Western art music, including a catalogue of over 400 musical examples.
* [[Trần Văn Khê]], [https://www.jstor.org/stable/43560447 "Le pentatonique est-il universel? Quelques reflexions sur le pentatonisme"], ''The World of Music'' 19, nos. 1–2:85–91 (1977). [https://www.jstor.org/stable/43560446 English translation: "Is the pentatonic universal? A few reflections on pentatonism"] pp.&nbsp;76–84. 
* Yamaguchi Masaya (New York: Charles Colin, 2002; New York: Masaya Music, Revised 2006). ''Pentatonicism in Jazz: Creative Aspects and Practice''. {{ISBN|0-9676353-1-4}}
* [[Kurt Reinhard (musicologist)|Kurt Reinhard]], "On the problem of pre-pentatonic scales: particularly the third-second nucleus", ''[[Journal of the International Folk Music Council]]'' 10 (1958). {{JSTOR|835966}}