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MUSIC 332

Aesthetics of Music

Undergraduate

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).
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  • Selected readings from Music in the Western World: A History in Documents, edited by Piero Weiss and Richard Taruskin (1984).
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  • Selected readings from Source Readings in Music History, edited by Oliver Strunk and revised by Leo Treitler (1998).
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Sources