Philosophy of music
Philosophy of music is the study of "fundamental questions about the nature and value of music and our experience of it".[1] The philosophical study of music has many connections with philosophical questions in metaphysics and aesthetics. The expression was born in the 19th century and has been used especially as the name of a discipline since the 1980s.[2]
Some basic questions in the philosophy of music are:
Contributions to music philosophy have been made by philosophers, music critics, musicologists, music theorists, and other scholars.
Music psychology
Sonic philosophy
(1997). How the Mind Works. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-04535-2.
Pinker, Steven
Adorno, Theodor W. 1976. Introduction to the Sociology of Music, translated by E.B. Ashton. A Continuum Book. New York: Seabury Press. 0816492662.
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Adorno, Theodor W. 1981. In Search of Wagner, translated by Rodney Livingstone. [London]: NLB. 0860910377.
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Adorno, Theodor W. 1992. Quasi una Fantasia: Essays on Modern Music, translated by Rodney Livingstone. Verso Classics. London and New York: Verso. 0860913600 (cloth); ISBN 0860916138 (pbk) ; ISBN 1859841597 (pbk).
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Adorno, Theodor W. 1998. Beethoven: The Philosophy of Music: Fragments and Texts, edited by Rolf Tiedemann; translated by Edmund Jephcott. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 0804735158.
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Adorno, Theodor W. 1999. Sound Figures, translated by Rodney Livingstone. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 0804735573 (cloth); ISBN 0804735581 (pbk).
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Adorno, Theodor W. 2001. The Culture Industry: Selected Essays on Mass Culture, edited and with an introduction by J. M. Bernstein. Routledge Classics. London and New York: Routledge. 0415255341 (cloth); ISBN 0415253802 (pbk).
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Adorno, Theodor W. 2002. Essays on Music, selected, with introduction, commentary, and notes by Richard Leppert; new translations by Susan H. Gillespie. Berkeley: University of California Press. 0520231597.
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Adorno, Theodor W. 2006. Philosophy of New Music, translated by Robert Hullot-Kentor. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 0816636664.
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Adorno, Theodor W. 2009. Night Music: Essays on Music 1928–1962, edited by Rolf Tiedemann; translated by Wieland Hoban. London and New York: Seagull Books. 1906497214.
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Barzun, Jacques. 1982. Critical Questions on Music and Letters, Culture and Biography, 1940–1980, selected, edited, and introduced by Bea Friedland. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 0-226-03863-7.
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Beardsley, Monroe C. 1958. Aesthetics: Problems in the Philosophy of Criticism. New York, Harcourt, Brace.
Beardsley, Monroe C., and Herbert M. Schueller (eds.). 1967. Aesthetic Inquiry: Essays on Art Criticism and the Philosophy of Art. Belmont, Calif.: Dickenson Pub. Co.
Bloch, Ernst. 1985. Essays on the Philosophy of Music, translated by Peter Palmer, with an introduction by David Drew. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. 0521248736 ISBN 0521312132 (pbk).
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Bonds, Mark Evan. 2014. Absolute Music: The History of an Idea. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 978-0-19-934363-8.
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Budd, Malcolm. 1985. Music and the Emotions: The Philosophical Theories. International Library of Philosophy. London and Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul. 0710205201 (cloth); ISBN 0415087791 (pbk).
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Budd, Malcolm. "Music and the Expression of Emotion", Journal of Aesthetic Education, Vol. 23, No. 3 (Autumn, 1989), pp. 19–29.
Chadwick, Henry. 1981. Boethius, the Consolations of Music, Logic, Theology, and Philosophy. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press. 019826447X (cloth); ISBN 0198265492 (pbk.)
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Clifton, Thomas. 1983. Music as Heard: A Study in Applied Phenomenology. New Haven: Yale University Press. 0300020910.
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Fronzi, Giacomo. 2017. Philosophical Considerations on Contemporary Music: Sounding Constellations. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Deleuze, Gilles. 1980. A Thousand Plateaus. London / Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Goehr, Lydia. 'The Imaginary Museum of Musical Works. An Essay in the Philosophy of Music' Oxford, 1992/2007.
Kivy, P. Introduction to the Philosophy of Music, Hackett Publishing, 1989.
Langer, Susanne K. 1957. Philosophy in a New Key: A Study in the Symbolism of Reason, Rite, and Art, third edition. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 0674665031.
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Lippman, Edward A. 1992. A History of Western Musical Aesthetics. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 0803228635 (cloth); ISBN 0803279515 (pbk).
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Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm. 1967. The Birth of Tragedy, and The Case of Wagner, translated, with commentary, by Walter Kaufmann. New York: Vintage Books. 0394703693 (pbk).
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Rowell, Lewis Eugene. 1983. Thinking about Music: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Music. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press. 0870233866.
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. The Aesthetics of Music, Oxford University Press, 1997.
Scruton, Roger
Shehadi, Fadlou (1995). . Leiden: Brill Publishers. ISBN 978-90-04-24721-5.
Philosophies of Music in Medieval Islam
Andrew Kania. . In Zalta, Edward N. (ed.). Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
"The Philosophy of Music"
Matteo Ravasio. . In Zalta, Edward N. (ed.). Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
"History of Western Philosophy of Music: Antiquity to 1800"
Matteo Ravasio. . In Zalta, Edward N. (ed.). Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
"History of Western Philosophy of Music: since 1800"
Matteo Ravasio, in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy