• Über Neue Musik. Sechs Vorlesungen zur Einführung in die theoretischen Grundlagen, Universal Edition, Wien, 1937 (en particulier le chapitre V, "Musik und Mathematik").
• Music here and now, Norton, New York, 1939 (en particulier le chapitre 8, "Music and Mathematics").
• Studies in Couterpoint based on the Twelve-Tone Technique, Schirmer, 1940
• "New Developments of the Twelve-Tone Technique", The Music Review, IV, 2, 1943, p. 81-97.
• "Is the Twelve-Tone Technique on the Decline?", The Musical Quarterly, Vol. 39, No. 4 (Oct., 1953), p. 513-527 (pdf)
• "Extents and Limits of Serial Techniques", The Musical Quarterly, Vol. 46, No. 2, Special Issue: " Problems of Modern Music. The Princeton Seminar in Advanced Musical Studies " (Apr., 1960), p. 210-232 (pdf)
• "Some Current Terms", Perspectives of New Music, Vol. 4, No. 2, 1966, 81-84 (pdf)
• Exploring Music, essays by Ernst Krenek (translated by Margaret Shenfield & Geoffrey Skelton, London, Calder & Boyars, 1966). En particulier le chapitre 16, "Basic Principles of a New Theory of Musical Aesthetics".
• Horizons Circles. Reflections on my Music, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1974.

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