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Musical Meaning and Expression

By Stephen Davies

Authenticities: Philosophical Reflections on Musical Performance

By Peter Kivy

Music and the Emotions: The Philosophical Theories

By Malcolm Budd

Aesthetic Theory

By Theodor W. Adorno

Who Needs Classical Music?: Cultural Choice and Musical Values

By Julian Johnson (Lecturer in Music, Lecturer in Music, Oxford University)

An Introduction to Aesthetics

By Dabney Townsend (University of Texas, Arlington)

Musical Identities

By Raymond A. R. MacDonald (, Department of Psychology, Glasgow Caledonian University), David J Hargreaves (, Faculty of Education Psychology, University of Surrey Roehampton), Dorothy Miell (, The Open University)

Philosophy of Music: An Introduction

By R.A. Sharpe

On The Musically Beautiful

By Eduard Hanslick, Geoffrey Payzant

The Concept of Music

By Robin Maconie (Professor of Music, Professor of Music, Savannah College of Art and Design, Georgia, USA)

Music, Imagination, and Culture

By Nicholas Cook (Professor of Music Cambridge University)

The Origin of Perspective

By Hubert Damisch, John Goodman

Six Facets Of Light

By Ann Wroe

Introducing Aesthetics: A Graphic Guide

By Christopher Kul-Want, Piero Pierini

But Is It Art?: An Introduction to Art Theory

By Cynthia Freeland (, University of Houston, Texas)

On Ugliness

By Umberto Eco, Alastair McEwen

On Beauty: A History of a Western Idea

By Umberto Eco, Alastair McEwen

The Architecture of Happiness

By Alain de Botton

The Musical Representation – Meaning, Ontology, and Emotion (Bradford Books)

By Nussbaum, Charles O

Language of Modern Music

By Donald Mitchell

Waste

By Dr. Brian Thill (Golden West College, USA)

Terrence Malick and the Thought of Film

By Steven Rybin

Theatre/Ecology/Cognition: Theorizing Performer-Object Interaction in Grotowski, Kantor, and Meyerhold

By T. Paavolainen

The Move Beyond Form: Creative Undoing in Literature and the Arts since 1960

By M. Hughes

The Art of Reconciliation: Photography and the Conception of Dialectics in Benjamin, Hegel, and Derrida

By D. Petersson

The Artful Universe

By John D. Barrow

The Nonsense of Kant and Lewis Carroll: Unexpected Essays on Philosophy, Art, Life, and Death

By Ben-Ami Scharfstein

The Philosophy of Art

By Giacomo Rinaldi

Bright Earth: The Invention of Colour

By Philip Ball

Nietzsche as Philosopher

By Arthur C. Danto