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Philosophy and aesthetics

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• Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics
• Operas -- Philosophy and aesthetics
• Popular music -- Philosophy and aesthetics

• Aesthetics and philosophy

• 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
  • multiple formats at Luminos
  • PDF files at JSTOR
• 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)
• 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
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Birth of Tragedy Out of the Spirit of Music, by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, trans. by Ian Johnston
  • HTML in Canada
  • Javascript-dependent page images with commentary at Richer Resources Publications

• 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)

• Saggio Sopra l'Opera in Musica (in Italian; Livorno: M. Coltellini, 1763), by Francesco Algarotti
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.