A BASIC BIBLIOGRAPHY: PHILOSOPHY OF MUSIC & MUSIC AESTHETICS

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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.

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Beardsley, Monroe. (1966). Aesthetics from classical Greece to the present: A short history. Tusculoosa, AL: University of Alabama Press.

Battersby, Christine. (1989). Gender and genius. Towards a feminist aesthetics. London: The Women's Press.

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Berleant, Arnold. (1991). Art and engagement. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Bowman, Wayne. (1998). Philosophical perspectives on music. New York: Oxford University Press.

Boethius. Fundamentals of music. Trans. C.M. Bower, Ed. C.V. Palisca. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1989.

Brett, Philip, Elizabeth Wood, and Gary C. Thomas, eds. Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology, 1994.

Budd, Malcolm. (1985). Music and the emotions. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.

Burrows, David L. (1990). Sound, speech, and music. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press.

Cage, John. (1961). Silence. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Carroll, Noel. (2001). Beyond aesthetics: Philosophical essays. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Chua, D. K. (1999). Absolute music and the construction of meaning. NY: Cambridge University Press.

Citron, Marcia J. (1993). Gender and the musical canon. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Clayton, Martin, Trevor Herbert, and Richard Middleton, eds. The Cultural Study of Music: A Critical Introduction. London: Routledge, 2003.

Clifton, Thomas. (1983). Music as heard: A study in applied phenomenology. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Cook, Nicholas. (1998). Music: A very short introduction. London: Oxford University Press.

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Cook, Nicholas and Everest, Mark (eds).(1999). Rethinking Music. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

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Cooke, Deryck. (1959). The language of music. London: Oxford University Press.

Coken, Wilson. (1972). Music and meaning: A theoretical introduction to musical aesthetics. NY: Free Press.

Collingwood, R.G. (1938). The principles of art. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press.

Cumming, Naomi. (2000). The sonic self: Musical subjectivity and signification. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.

Dallhaus, Carl. (1982). Esthetics of music. Trans W. W. Austin. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Danto, Arthur C. (2003). The abuse of beauty: Aesthetics and the concept of art. Chicago: Open Court.

______.(1986). The philosophical disenfranchisement of art. New York: Columbia University Press.

______. (1981). The transfiguration of the commonplace: A philosophy of art. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Davies, Stephen. (1994). Musical meaning and expression. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

Dewey, John. (1934). Art as experience. NY: G.P. Putnam.

Dufrenne, Mikel. (1973). The phenomenology of aesthetic experience. Trans. Edward Casey, et al. Evantson, IL: Northwestern University Press.

Eagleton, Terry. (1990). The ideology of the aesthetic. Oxford, UK: Basil Blackwell.

Elliott, David. (1995). Music Matters. New York: Oxford University Press.

Epperson, Gordon. (1967). The musical symbol: A study of the philosophic theory of music. Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press.

Feagin, Susan and Patrick Maynard, Eds. (1997). Aesthetics. New York: Oxford University Press.

Ferrara, Lawrence. (1991). Philosophy and the analysis of music: Bridges to musical sound, form, and reference. New York: Greenwood Press.

Fiske, Harold E. (1990). Music and mind: Philosophical essays on the cognition and meaning of music. Lewiston, NY: Mellen Press.

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Gadamer, Hans-Georg. (1986). The relevance of the beautiful and other essays. Ed. Robert Bernasconi. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Godlovitch, Stan. (1998). Musical performance: A philosophical study. London: Routledge.

Godwin, Jocelyn. (1987). Harmonies of heaven and earth: The spiritual dimensions of music. Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions International.

Goehr, Lydia. (1992). The imaginary museum of musical works: An essay in the philosophy of music. New York: Oxford University Press. Goodman, Nelson.. (1976). Languages of art: An approach to the theory of symbols. Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing.

Green, Lucy. (1988). Music on deaf ears: Musical meaning, ideology, education. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press.

______. (1997). Music, gender, education. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Greene, Maxine. (2001). Variations on a blue guitar: The Lincoln Center Institute lectures on aesthetic education. NY: Teacher's College Press.

Gurney, Edmund. (1966). The Power of Sound. New York: Basic Books.

Hanslick, Eduard (1986). On the musically beautiful: A contribution towards the revision of the aesthetics of music. Trans. and ed. G. Payzant. Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing.

______. (1957). The beautiful in music. Trans. G. Cohen. Ed. M. Weitz. NY: Liberal Arts Press.

Hegel, G. W. F. The philosophy of fine art. Trans. F.P. B. Osmaston. London: G. Bell and Sons, 1920.

Higgins, Kathleen. (1991). The music of our lives. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Hutcheson, Francis. (1973). Inquiry concerning beauty, order, harmony, design (1725). Ed. Peter Kivy. The Hague: Martinua Nijhoff.

Ihde. don. (1976). Listening and voice: A phenomenology of sound. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press.

Ingarden, Roman. (1986). The work of music and the problem of its identity. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Jackson, Philip W. (1998). John Dewey and the lessons of art. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

James, Jamie. (1993). The music of the spheres: Music, science, and the natural order. New York: Springer-Verlag.

Jorgensen, Estelle R. (1997). In search of music education. Chicago: University of Illinois Press.

Kant, Immanuel. The critique of judgment. Trans. J. C. Meredith. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1952. ______. Observations on the feeling of the beautiful and sublime. Trans. J.T. Goldthwait. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1960. Kerman, Joseph. (1985). Contemplating music. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Kivy, Peter. Introduction to a Philosophy of Music. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2002.

______.(1980). The corded shell: Reflections on musical expression. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

______. (1984). Sound and semblance: Reflections on musical representation. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

______. (1990). Music alone: reflections on the purely musical experience. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

Kramer, Lawrence. (1990). Music as cultural practice, 1800-1900. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

Krims, A. Ed. (1998). Music/ideology: Resisting the aesthetic. Amsterdam: Overseas Publishers Association.

Langer, Susanne. (1942). Philosophy in a new key: A study in the symbolism of reason, rite, and art. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

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Leppert, R. and McClary, Susan. (1987) Music and society: The politics of composition, performance, and reception. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Levinson, Jerrold. (1990). Music, art, and metaphysics: Essays in philosophical aesthetics. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

Levinson, Jerrold. Ed. (1998). Aesthetics and ethics: Essays at the intersection. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Lippman, Edward. (1992). A history of western musical aesthetics. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press.

______. (1964). Musical thought in ancient Greece. NY: Columbia University Press.

Lyotard, Jean-Francois. (2001). Soundproof room: Malraux's anti-aesthetics.

McClary, Susan. (1991). Feminine endings: Music, gender, and sexuality. Minneapolis,: University of Minnesota Press. Maconie, Robin. (1990). The concept of music. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Martin, Peter J. (1999). Sounds and society: Themes in the sociology of music. Manchester, UK: University of Manchester Press.

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. (1964). The primacy of perception and other essays on phenomenological psychology, the Philosophy of Art, History, and Politics. Ed. J.M. Edie. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press.

Meyer, Leonard B. (1956). Emotion and meaning in music. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

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______. (1989). Style and music: Theory, history, and ideology. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Murdoch Iris. (1977). The fire and the sun: Why Plato banished the artists. Oxford, UK; Oxford University Press.

Nattiez, Jean-Jacques. (1990). Music and Discouse: Toward a Semiology of Music. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

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Phelan, Peggy. (1993). Unmarked: The politics of performance. London: Routledge. Plato. The Republic. Laws. Protagoras.

Portnoy, Julius (1980). The philosopher and music. NY: Da Capo Press.

Raffman, Diana. (1993). Language, music, and mind. Cambridge, MA: Bradford.

Reimer, Bennett (2003). Advancing the vision: A philosophy of music education. Third edition. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

Reimer, Bennett and Jeffrey E. Wright, eds. (1992). On the nature of musical experience. Niwot, CO: University Press of Colorado.

Ridley, Aaron. (2004). The philosophy of music: Theme and variations. Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press.

______. (1995). Music, value, and the passions. Ithaca, NY: Cornell Univeristy Press. Robinson, Jenefer, ed. (1997). Music and meaning. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

Schafer, R. Murray. (1977). The tuning of the world. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.

Schiller, Friedrich. On the aesthetic education of man. Ed. and Trans. E. M. Wilkinson and L.A. Willoughby. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987.

Schopenhauer, Arthur. The world as will and representation. Trans. E.F.J. Payne. 2 vols. Indian Hills, CO, 1958.

Serafine, Mary L. (1988). Music as cognition: The development of thought in sound. NY: Columbia University Press.

Shepherd, John. (1991). Music as social text. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Small, Christopher. (1999). Musicking: The Meanings of performing and listening. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England.

______. (1977). Music-education-society. NY: Schirmer.

Sparshott, Francis E. (1982). The theory of the arts. Princeton, MJ: Princeton University Press.

Weber, Max. The rational and social foundations of music. Trans. D. Martindale, et al. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press 1956.

Wolterstorff, Nicholas. (1980). Works and worlds of art. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press.

______. Art in action. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans.

Other Recommended Books

Introduction to Philosophy in general:

Popkin, Richard H., and Stroll, Avrum. (1993). Philosophy made simple. 2nd rev. ed. New York: Doubleday.

Blackburn, Simon. (1999). Think: A compelling introduction to philosophy. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Critical Thinking/Informal Logic: Bowell, Tracy, and Kemp, Gary. (2002). Critical thinking: A concise guide. London: Routledge.

Baggini, Julian and Fosl, Peter. (2003). The philosopher’s toolkit: A compendium of philosophical concepts and methods. Oxford, UK: Blackwell.

Shand, John. (2000). Arguing well. London: Routledge.

Engel, S. Morris. (1986). With good reason: An introduction to informal fallacies. New York: St. Martin’s Press.