Reading List for Music in Mind

Last Updated: 2025-10-26

In preparation for writing Music in Mind, I am slowly reading a long list of books and essays...

• Al-Farabi - The Great Book of Music
• Al-Farabi - Meanings of the Intellect
• Alperson - What is Music?
• Aristoxenus - Harmonics
• Bowie - Music, Philosophy and Modernity
• Bowman - Philosophical Perspectives on Music
• Changizi - Harnessed
• Clarke and Clarke - Music and Consciousness
• Davies - Musical Meaning and Expression
• Davies - Musical Works and Performances
• Davies - Musical Understandings
• Depew - "Politics, Music, and Contemplation"
• Destree and Murray - A Companion to Ancient Aesthetics
• Deutsch - Psychology of Music
• Dissanayake - Art and Intimacy
• Dissanayake - Homo Aestheticus
• Dissanayake - What Is Art For?
• Ford - "Catharsis: the Power of Music in Aristotle's Politics"
• Goehr - The Imaginary Museum
• Hanslick - The Beautiful in Music
• Higgins - The Music of Our Lives
• Hindemith - A Composer’s World
• Huxley - Music at Night
• Johnson - Emotions in Music
• Jourdain - Music, the Brain, and Ecstasy
• Kalimtzis - An Inquiry into the Philosophical Concept of Scholê
• Kerman - Contemplating Music
• Kivy - The Corded Shell
• Kivy - Sound and Semblance
• Kivy - Sound Sentiment
• Kivy - The Fine Art of Repetition
• Kivy - Introduction to a Philosophy of Music
• Kivy - Music, Language, and Cognition
• Kivy - Sounding Off
• Kivy - Music Alone
• Kivy - Authenticities
• Kivy - New Essays
• Kooeplin - "The Telos of Citizen Life: Music and Philosophy in Aristotle's Ideal Polis"
• Kramaz - The Power and Value of Music
• Landels - Music in Ancient Greece and Rome
• Langer - Philosophy in a New Key
• Langer - Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling
• Lehrdahl and Jackendoff - A Generative Theory of Tonal Music
• Levin - Greek Reflections on the Nature of Music
• Levinson - Music in the Moment
• Levinson - Musical Concerns
• Liebert - Nietzsche and Music
• Lord - Education and Culture in the Political Thought of Aristotle
• Mathiesen - Apollo's Lyre
• Mathiesen - Aristides Quintilianus: On Music
• Meyer - Emotion and Meaning in Music
• Meyer - Explaining Music
• Meyer - Music, the Arts, and Ideas
• Meyer - Style and Music
• Modrak - Aristotle's Theory of Language and Meaning
• Murray and Wilson (eds.) - Music and the Muses
• Noe - Strange Tools
• Nussbaum - Upheavals of Thought, pp. 249ff
• Patel - Music, Language, and the Brain
• Philodemus - On Music
• Pieper - Only the Lover Sings
• Plutarch - On Music
• Rimas - Etudes on the Philosophy of Music
• Rosen - Music and Sentiment
• Ross - Listen to This
• Rothstein - Emblems of Mind
• Sacks - Musicophilia
• Schoen-Nazarro - "Plato and Aristotle on the Ends of Music"
• Scruton - Aesthetics of Music
• Scruton - Music as an Art
• Scruton - Understanding Music
• Sloboda - The Musical Mind
• Smith (ed.) - Understanding the Musical Experience
• Solmsen - "Leisure and Play in Aristotle's Ideal State"
• Sparshott - Music and Feeling
• Storr - Music and the Mind
• Stravinsky - The Poetics of Music
• Taruskin - Text and Act
• Thompson - Music, Thought, and Feeling
• Ulrich, Treitler and Mathiesen - Source Readings in Music History: Greece and Rome
• West - Ancient Greek Music
• Whitwell - The Aesthetics of Baroque Music
• Wilson - The Art of Re-Enchantment
• Winnington-Ingram - Mode in Ancient Greek Music
• Zuckerkandl - Man the Musician
• Zuckerkandl - The Sense of Music
• Zuckerkandl - Sound and Symbol

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