Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics
Here are entered works on the philosophy and aesthetics of music. Works on the relationship between music and philosophy are entered under Music and philosophy.
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Broader terms:Narrower terms:- Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics -- History
- Popular music -- Philosophy and aesthetics
- Style, Musical
- Music -- 19th century -- Philosophy and aesthetics
- Music -- India -- Philosophy and aesthetics
- Music -- Performance -- Philosophy and aesthetics
- Hermeneutics (Music)
- Music -- Aesthetics
- Musical aesthetics
- Music -- Philosophy
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Acoustemologies in Contact: Sounding Subjects and Modes of Listening in Early Modernity (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2021), ed. by Emily Wilbourne and Suzanne G. Cusick (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)- Instruments for New Music: Sound, Technology, and Modernism (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, c2016), by Thomas Patteson
- Die Metalogik: Die Musikalische Logik, Geometrie der Empfindungen (in German; Munich: Musarion verlag, 1919), by Walter Harburger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- The Magic of Tone and the Art of Music, by Dane Rudhyar (HTML at khaldea.com)
- Opera and Drama, by Richard Wagner, trans. by William Ashton Ellis (HTML at Wayback Machine)
- Music Ho! A Study of Music in Decline (c1934), by Constant Lambert (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
- Aesthetik: oder Wissenschaft des Schönen (3 volumes (third in multiple parts), in German; 1846-1857), by Friedrich Theodor Vischer (page images at HathiTrust)
- Music and Meaning (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1932), by Elizabeth Robinson Woods (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Art-Work of the Future, by Richard Wagner, trans. by William Ashton Ellis (HTML at Wayback Machine)
- The Birth of Tragedy: or, Hellenism and Pessimism (from the Complete Works v1), by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, ed. by Oscar Levy, trans. by William A. Haussmann
- The Birth of Tragedy Out of the Spirit of Music, by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, trans. by Ian Johnston
- Die Rationalen und Soziologischen Grundlagen der Musik (in German; Munich: Drei Masken Verlag, 1921), by Max Weber, contrib. by Theodor Kroyer
- Listening to Popular Music: or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Led Zeppelin (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Theodore Gracyk (page images at HathiTrust)
- Sounding the Depths: Tradition and the Voices of History (2011), by Victor Grauer (HTML with commentary at blogspot.com)
- Bob Dylan's Career as a Blakean Visionary and Romantic (Geneseo, NY: Milne Library, SUNY College at Geneseo, c2013), by Eugene L. Stelzig (PDF and Epub with commentary at geneseo.edu)
- Music as Cultural Practice, 1800-1900 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Lawrence Kramer (HTML at UC Press)
- The Rebirth of Hindu Music (online second edition), by Dane Rudhyar (HTML at khaldea.com)
- A Musicology of Performance: Theory and Method Based on Bach's Solos for Violin (version 1.2; Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2016), by Dorottya Fabian (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Music- Curiosités Musicales: Notes, Analyses, Interprétation de Certaines Particularités Contenues dans les Oeuvres des Grands Maîtres (in French; Paris: Firmin Didot Frères, Fils et cie., 1873), by Édouard Marie Ernest Deldevez (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Digital Mozart Edition (comprehensive set of his musical compositions, with German commentary and English and German user interfaces), by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, ed. by Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum Salzburg (searchable page images in Austria)
- How to Appreciate Music (New York: Moffat, Yard and Co., 1912), by Gustav Kobbé (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Merry-Go-Round (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1918), by Carl Van Vechten (Gutenberg text and page images)
- Old Scores and New Readings: Discussions on Music and Certain Musicians, by John F. Runciman (Gutenberg text)
- Richard Wagner's Prose Works (8 volumes; London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1895-1907), by Richard Wagner, trans. by William Ashton Ellis
- Volume I (The Art-Work of the Future, etc., second edition): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume II (Opera and Drama, second edition): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume III (The Theatre, second impression): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume IV (Art and Politics): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume V (Actors and Singers): page images at HathiTrust; US access only
- Volume VI (Religion and Art): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume VII (In Paris and Dresden): page images at HathiTrust; US access only
- Volume VIII (Posthumous, etc.): multiple formats at archive.org
- Prose Miscellany (Cincinnati: R. Clarke and Co., 1881), by Horace P. Biddle (HTML and page images at Indiana)
- Mozart, Weber and Wagner, With Various Essays on Musical Subjects (London: W. Reeves, ca. 1918), by Hector Berlioz, trans. by Edwin Evans (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Mathematics of the Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT), With Audio Applications (second edtion, c2007), by Julius O. Smith (illustrated HTML with commentary at dsprelated.com)
- Harmonics: or, The Philosophy of Musical Sounds (second edition; London: Printed for T. and J. Merrill, et al., 1759), by Robert Smith
- Musical Instruments and Their Homes (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1888), by Mary Elizabeth Brown and William Adams Brown
- Bluebeard: A Musical Fantasy, by Kate Douglas Wiggin
- A History of Arabian Music to the XIIIth Century (London: Luzac and Co., 1929), by Henry George Farmer
- Musical Instruments and Their Homes (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1888), by Mary Elizabeth Brown and William Adams Brown
- Bibliotheca Musico-Liturgica, a Descriptive Handlist of the Musical and Latin-Liturgical Mss. of the Middle Ages Preserved in the Libraries of Great Britain and Ireland: Volume I, Fascicles I and II (Lambeth and Oxford) (only volume known to be in the public domain; 1901), by W. H. Frere (page images at HathiTrust)
- Deutsche Tonkünstler und Musiker in Wort und Bild (second edition, in German; Leipzig: F. Jansa, 1911), ed. by Friedrich Jansa (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Music Lovers' Cyclopedia (New York: Pub. by Doubleday, Doran and Co. for U.S. School of Music, c1912), ed. by Rupert Hughes (page images at HathiTrust)
- China and the West: Music, Representation, and Reception (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2017), ed. by Hon-Lun Yang and Michael Saffle (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
- Sound and Music Computing (reprint of a special issue of Applied Sciences; Basel et al.: MDPI, 2018), ed. by Tapio Lokki, Stefania Serafin, Meinard Müller, and Vesa Välimäki (PDF with commentary at mdpi.com)
- Music Lovers' Cyclopedia (New York: Pub. by Doubleday, Doran and Co. for U.S. School of Music, c1912), ed. by Rupert Hughes (page images at HathiTrust)
- Aventures et Voyages (in French; Nice: Typ. S. C. Cauvin, 1876), by P. Seligmann (page images at HathiTrust)
- The First Violin (New York: Brentano's, 1910), by Jessie Fothergill, illust. by G. W. Brenneman (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
- The Story of Marco (New York: A.L. Burt Co., c1911), by Eleanor H. Porter, illust. by Laura Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Vocal Companion: Containing a Concise Introduction to the Practice Of Music, and a Set of Tunes of Various Metres, Arranged Progressively for the Use of Learners (Exeter, NH: N. Sawyer, 1897), by Samuel Holyoke (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Academic Manual of the Rudiments of Music (London: Weekes and Co., 1915), by G. Augustus Holmes (page images at HathiTrust)
- Theft! A History of Music (2017), by Keith Aoki, James Boyle, and Jennifer Jenkins (PDF with commentary at Duke)
- Music: Its Language, History, and Culture (c2014), by Ray Allen, Douglas Cohen, Nancy Barnes Hager, and Jeffrey Taylor (illustrated HTML with commentary at cuny.edu)
- An Outline-History of Music (New York: Barnes and Noble, c1947), by Hugh Milton Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Art Melodious (third edition, augmented; London and New York: F. Tennyson Neely, c1897), by Louis Lombard (page images at HathiTrust)
- Chopin, and Other Musical Essays (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1894), by Henry T. Finck (Gutenberg text)
- The History of Music: A Handbook and Guide for Students (New York: G. Schirmer, c1907), by Waldo Selden Pratt (PDF at djm.cc)
- The Magic of Tone and the Art of Music, by Dane Rudhyar (HTML at khaldea.com)
- Critical Reflections on Poetry, Painting and Music; With an Inquiry into the Rise and Progress of the Theatrical Entertainments of the Ancients (3 volumes; London: Printed for J. Nourse, 1748), by abbé Dubos, trans. by Thomas Nugent
- Plays, Acting and Music: A Book of Theory (revised edition; London: Constable and Co., 1909), by Arthur Symons (Gutenberg text)
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