2020 reading lists and preparatory work

Over the next few weeks, applicants for some courses will receive reading lists and/or preparatory work for their course. Not all tutors will provide these documents and those that do might issue them at different times. Please check this page regularly for updates.
Ancient and Modern History
Biochemistry
Biology
Chemistry
Classical Archaeology and Ancient History
Classics
Computer Science, Mathematics
- Haskell Tutorial
- Maths Problem Sheet 1
- Maths Problem Sheet 2
- Message from Maths Tutor
- Practice Problems Instructions
Engineering
English Language and Literature
This information has already been emailed to students.
History
Law
- Somerville Law Induction Course 2020 (Material for Session 2 – Constitutional Law)
- Somerville Law Induction Course 2020 (Materials for Session 3 Study Skills – Part A)
- Somerville Law Induction Course 2020 (Materials for Session 3 Study Skills – Part B)
- Somerville Law Induction Course 2020 (Materials for Session 3 Study Skills – Part C)
- Somerville Law Induction Course 2020 (Materials for Session 3 Study Skills – Part D)
- Somerville Law Induction Course 2020 (Materials for Session 3 Study Skills Part E)
Linguistics
Mathematics -(See Computer Science/Mathematics)
Modern Languages
- French information
- German First year reading list
- German for Beginners
- Italian Reading list
- Spanish letter
- Spanish Reading List
- Russian for beginners
Music
READ ME FIRST Intro to Music Freshers Resources
A. Foundations in the Study of Music
- 1. Randel (1992) The canons in the musicological toolbox
- 2. Weber (1999) The history of musical canon
- 3. Kerman (1985) Musicology and positivism
- 4. Sancho-Velszquez (2001) Masterworks become canonic
- 5. Citron (1993) Canonic issues
- 6. Hooper (2006) A new musicology
- 8. Williams (2001) Traditions
- 9. Stanbridge (2007) The tradition of all the dead generations
B. Critical Studies in Ethnomusicology
- 10. Baily (2010) World music recordings
- 11. Brennan (2001) World music does not exist
- 12. Feld (2000) A sweet lullaby for world music
- 13. Frith (2000) The discourse of world music
- 14. Guibalt (2001) World music
- 15. Kolluoglu (2003) From orientalism to area studies
- 16. Lipsitz (1999) World cities and world beat
- 17. Taylor (1997) Popular music and globalization
C. Critical Listening
- 18. Roeder (2019) Timely negotiations
- 20. Tenzer (2006) Introduction Analysis, categorization and theory
- 21. Middleton (1993) Popular music analysis and musicology
- 22. Cook (2011) Methods for analysing recordings
- 23. Marian-Bălaşa (2005) Who actually needs transcription
- 24. Stanyek (2014) Forum on transcription
D. Music Analysis and Techniques of Composition
- 27. Beckles Willson (2009) Music theory and analysis
- 28. Caplin (1998) Some basic formal functions
- 29. Caplin (1998) Fundamental progressions of harmony
- 30. Hepokoski and Darcy (2006) Contexts
- 31. Hepokoski and Darcy (2006) Sonata form as a whole
- 32. Brown (2013) Little Wing
- 33. Hesselink (2013) Radiohead’s Pyramind Song
- 34bi. Sonata II A Major by Joseph Bologne
Philosophy and Linguistics
Philosophy, Politics and Economics
Physics
- Computing Bridging
- Incoming Freshers Guide 2020-2021
- mathphysintro15
- Physics PJCC Freshers Guide 2020-21