MUSIC 332
Aesthetics of Music
Winter 2024
Topics
- Musical meaning
- Imitation, abstraction, and beauty
- Aesthetic, philosophical, and sociological ideas
- Music from antiquity to the present
- Relationships among the arts
Readings
- Selected readings from Contemplating Music: Source Readings in the Aesthetics of Music, edited by Ruth Katz and Carl Dahlhaus (1987–1993).
- Selected readings from Music in the Western World: A History in Documents, edited by Piero Weiss and Richard Taruskin (1984).
- Selected readings from Source Readings in Music History, edited by Oliver Strunk and revised by Leo Treitler (1998).
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- syllabus ↗Winter 2024