- Sean E. Atkinson. Soaring Through the Sky: Topics and Tropes in Video Game Music
- Megan Lavengood, Evan Williams. The Common Cold: Using Computational Musicology to Define the Winter Topic in Video Game Music
- TV Tropes
- Musical Meaning and Interpretation - a book series by Indiana University Press
- Bibliography by Robert Hatten, also check his own books
- The Oxford Handbook of Topic Theory
- Garrett Michaelsen. Groove Topics in Improvised Jazz
- https://mtosmt.org/issues/mto.24.30.1/mto.24.30.1.principi.html
- Frymoyer 2017
- Leydon 2010, Spicer 2010, Echard 2017
- Теория музыкального содержания
- https://arts.unco.edu/music/symposium-musical-topics/international_symposium_on_musical_topics_and_topic_theory_program.pdf
- Eero Tarasti on semiotics