| 1704 | Newton | Isaac Newton, Opticks, Prop. VI Prob. II. |
| 1725 | Castel | Maarten Franssen; Hankins, 1994; Peacock 1988, pp. 399-401; Graves 1951, p. 411; Wagler 1974, p. 162; Popper 1968, p 156. |
| 1789 | Darwin | Erasmus Darwin, The Botanical Garden Part II The Loves of Plants, Interlude III, p. 140; Peacock 1988, p. 401. |
1834
| Cole | Cole’s diary entry; Noble 1964, p. 140-141. |
| 1844 | Jameson | Peacock 1988, p. 401′ Popper 1968, p. 157. |
| 1869-73 | Kastner | Peacock 1988, p. 397; Popper 1968, p. 157. |
| 1877 | Bishop | Peacock 1988, p. 401; Popper 1968, p. 157. |
| 1893 | Rimington | Peacock 1988, pp. 401-2; Kushner 1990, p. 105; Popper 1968, p. 157. |
| 1894 | Lind | Kargon 2011, p. 1. |
| 1903 | Michelson | Hankins, 1994, p. 155. Wagler 1974, p. 162; Birren 1961, p. 165. |
| 1906 | “Visual music” | John E. Bowlt 1986, p. 171; James M. Baker 2002, p. 71. |
| 1909 | Kandinsky | Holtzman 1994, p. 72. |
| 1909 | Shoenberg | Gerstner 1986, p. 165. |
| 1912-13 | Survage | Putnam 1929, pp. 112-129; Russett and Starr 1988, p. 35; MOMA’s Colored Rhythm: 59 Studies for the film. |
1912
| Hector | Peacock 1988, p. 403; State Library of New South Wales’ Alexander Burnett Hector page. |
| 1915 | Scriabin | Graves 1951 p. 411; Gerstner 1986, p. 165; Peacock 1985, pp. 402-3; James M. Baker, 2002, pp. 61-95. |
| 1916 | Russell | Kushner 1990, pp. 105-109. |
| 1920 | Rossine | Gerstner 1986, p. 165. |
| 1921 | Greenewalt | Amy Alexander’s Mary Hallock Greenewalt Visibility Project; Peacock 1988, p. 404. |
| 1921 | Ruttmann | Russett and Starr 1988, p.40; Duchting 1997, p. 40. |
| 1921 | Richter | deGuthmann 1974, p. 8; Holtzman 1994, p. 188; Von Hofacker in Foster [ed.] 1998, p. 256; Moritz “Restoring the aesthetics of early abstract films”. |
| 1922 | Rossine | Rossine’s Optiphonic Piano; Gerstner 1986, p. 165. |
| 1922 | Wilfred | Claire Voon’s Hyperallergic article; Malina 1974, p. 64; Pelligrino 1983, pp. 5-6; Peacock 1988, pp. 404-405. |
| 1923 | Hirshfeld-Mack | Peacock 1988, p.404; Duchting 1997, p. 40. |
| 1924 | Eggeling | Graves 1951, p. 413; Holtzman 1994, p. 188. |
| 1924 | Macdonald-Wright | Stanton Macdonald-Wright, 1924; South, 2001, pp.30-35. |
| 1930 | Fischinger | Russett and Starr 1988, p.57; Center for Visual Music’s Oskar Fischinger site. |
| 1930 | Moholy-Nagy | Moholy-Nagy 1970, p. 148; Harvard Museum Gallery Text. |
| 1934 | Greenewalt | See 1921 Greenewalt (above). |
| 1934-35 | Bute | Center for Visual Music’s Mary Ellen Bute site. |
| 1939-40 | Whitneys | Whitney 1980, p. 225 |
| 1946 | Smith | The Harry Smith archives; Bill Mortz’s 2001 talk at the Getty’s Harry Smith Symposium; Igliori 1996, p. 30. |
| 1952 | Asimov | Isaac Asimov, Foundation and Empire, chapter 17. |
| 1953 | Pask | Pask, “A comment, a case history and a plan,” also in Reichardt 1971, pp. 76-99; Usman Haque’s description. |
| 1955 | Fischinger | U.S. Patent # 2,707,103; CVM’s Lumigraph page. |
| 1955 | Bass | Christian Annyas’ Saul Bass Title Sequences page. |
| 1957 | Belson | Center for Visual Music’s Jordan Belson Bibliography; Youngblood 1970, pp. 157-177; Igliori 1986, p. 269; Cindy Keefer’s SF Museum of Art post. |
| 1958 | Philips | Philips design; Pellegrino 1983, p. 12; Gerstner 1988, p. 167. |
| 1968 | Leonardo | Leonardo/ISAST
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| 1968 | Trumbull | Youngblood 1970, pp. 151-156. |
| 1969 | Macdonald-Wright | South 2001, p. 143. There is information about the CVM restoration of the filmstrips and their use in performance on their VMFilms page. |
| 1969 | WGBH | The video is available on vimeopro; James Nadeau’s MIT Comparative Media Studies Master’s Thesis; Girondo’s Lists of Films; Youngblood 1970, p. 306. |
| 1970 | Gerstner | Gerstner 1986, pp. 124-162. |
| 1973 | Cohen | Kurzweil CyberArt’s History of AARON; Holtzman 1994, pp. 179-188. |
| 1974-79 | Spiegel | Spiegel’s Retiary Ramblings and Graphical Groove: Memorium for a Visual Music System. |
| 1980 | Whitney | Whitney, Digital Harmony, 1980; Paul Prudence’s Dataisnature post. |
| 1982 | Kandinsky | Amanda Brown’s Guggenheim Archives entry; Gerstner 1986, p. 166. |
| 1984 | Stadnik | George Stadnik’s Photon Guitar page; George’s photonlightguitars site. |
| 1985 | Malinowski | Stephen’s Music Animation Machine site; the MAM Timeline. |
| 1990 | Evans | Evans 1990; Holtzman 1994, pp. 189-90. |
| 1998 | Twist | Basil Twist site. |
| 1999 | Cohen | US Coast Card’s Bindu Visualization of Music page. |
| 1999 | Cunningham | Open Ended Group’s Biped page. |
| 2000 | Collopy | |
| 2000 | iota | Program notes. |
| 2003 | Rekveld | Joost Rekveld’s Sonic Light 2003 page. |
| 2004 | Collopy | Hue to pitch correspondences page; Mattis, p. 215; Collopy, 2009, pp. 63-65. |
| 2004 | Pompidou | Sons & Lumieres, Centre Pompidou, 2004. |
| 2005 | Hirshhorn | Visual Music, Brougher, et al., 2005; the films are described on the CVM VMFilms page. |
| 2009-18 | Hyde | Seeing Sound site. |
| 2012 | Fischinger | CVM’s Raumlichtkunst site. |
| 2013 | Turrell | Jillian Steinhauer’s Hyperallergic review Visions of Light at the Guggenheim. |
| 2018 | CVM | Center for Visual Music Symposium site. |
