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Philosophy of Music & Music Aesthetics A BASIC BIBLIOGRAPHY: PHILOSOPHY OF MUSIC & MUSIC AESTHETICS < http://web.ku.edu/~cmed/815/815bib09.pdf> on course web site Adorno, Theodor. (1984). Aesthetic theory. Trans. C. Lenhardt. London: Routledge. ___________. (1973). Philosophy of modern music. Trans. A.G. Mitchell and W.V. Blomster. NY: Seabury Press. ___________. (1999). Sound Figures. Trans. R. Livingstone. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. Allan, Tuzyline Jita. (1995). Womanist and feminist aesthetics: A comparative review. Ohio Univ. Press. Alperson, Philip A., Ed. (1987). What is music? An introduction to the philosophy of music. NY: Haven Publications. Attali, Jacques. (1985). Noise: The political economy of music. Trans. B. Massumi. Minneapolis,: University of Minnesota Press. Augustine. On music. Trans. R. Taliaferro. In Writings of St. Augustine, ed. L. Schopp. NY: CIMA Publishing, 1947. Aristotle. On Poetics. ________. Politics. Battersby, Christine. (1989). 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