Voici une liste limitée de références sur l'orchestration dans la musique de kangen.
| De Ferranti, H. & Narasaki, Y. | A way a Lone: Writings on Tōru Takemitsu. Tōkyō: Academia Music Eds, 2002. |
| Garfias, Robert. | Music of a Thousand Autumns: The Tōgaku Style of Japanese Court Music. Berkeley, Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1975. |
| Kapuscinski, J. & Rose, F. |
“Japanese Traditional Orchestral Music: The Correlation between Time and Timbre.” in La musique et ses instruments. Saint-Vallier : éditions Delatour France, 2013, pp. 261 - 270. Le temps et le timbre dans la musique de Gagaku. Paris: L’Harmatthan, 2012. |
| Kishibe, Shigeo | Traditional Music of Japan. Tōkyō, Japan Publications, 1973. |
| Miki, Minoru | Composing for Japanese Instruments. Translated by Marty Regan, New York: University of Rochester Press, 2008. |
| Onuki, Reiko | “Gagaku.”, March 2014. |
| Shiba, Sukehiro | Score of Gagaku Japanese Classical Court Music, Volume 1, transcribed by SHIBA Sukehiro. Tōkyō: Ryūginsha, 1955. |
| Shōno, Sumusa | “The role of listening in GAGAKU”, in Contemporary Music Review 1987, Volume 1, pp. 19-43. |
| Terauchi, Naoko | “Beyond the Court: A Challenge to the Gagaku Tradition in the ‘Reconstruction’ Project of the National Theater.”, in Performing Japan: Contemporary Expressions of Cultural Identity. Kent, UK: Global Oriental, 2008, pp. 93-125. |