 | A Companion to Aesthetics (Blackwell Companions to Philosophy)
Buy new: £21.24 / Used from: £18.05 A good general companion to all things aesthetic.
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 | History of Western Musical Aesthetics, A by Edward A. Lippman
Buy used from: £122.95 A good and clear book about the main ideas in Western Musical Aesthetics.
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 | The Philosophy and Aesthetics of Music by Edward A. Lippman
Buy new: £18.99 / Used from: £10.53 Examines many aspects of the Aesthetics of Music.
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 | Fuzzy Thinking: The New Science of Fuzzy Logic by Bart Kosko
Buy used from: £0.01 Bivalence vs. Multivalence. Simplicity vs. Accuracy. Everything is a matter of degree. A good overview of Fuzzy Thinking.
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 | The Science of Music by Robin Maconie
Buy new: £27.55 / Used from: £21.99 A good look at the science of music. The material basics of all Music.
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 | The Concept of Music (Clarendon Paperbacks) by Robin Maconie
Buy new: £38.00 / Used from: £12.99 The fundamental conceptual questions regarding Music.
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 | Music, the Arts and Ideas: Patterns and Predictions in Twentieth-century Culture (Centennial Publications of the University of Chicago) by Meyer
Buy new: £18.53 / Used from: £4.66 Lots of interesting ideas about Music. Chapter two is about the value and greatness in Music.
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 | Emotion and Meaning in Music (Phoenix Books) by Meyer
Buy new: £10.85 / Used from: £18.64 More interesting stuff from Meyer about Music.
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 | The Language of Music (Clarendon Paperbacks) by Deryck Cooke
Buy new: £23.75 / Used from: £16.95 An excellent book. Examines musical intervals and how they are used to express emotions and ideas in Music.
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 | The Musical Mind: The Cognitive Psychology of Music (Oxford Psychology Series) by John A. Sloboda
Buy new: £24.54 / Used from: £10.00 A fine book about the cognitive psychology of Music.
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 | Music and Emotion: Theory and Research (Series in Affective Science)
Buy new: £32.46 / Used from: £30.00 More about the emotions and Music.
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 | Music and the Mind by Anthony Storr
Buy new: £5.46 / Used from: £2.19 Very informative. Examines all kinds of questions related to Music and the Mind.
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 | The Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature by Malcolm Budd
Buy new: £37.40 / Used from: £15.75 Everything springs from here so it might be a good idea to start with the Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature.
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 | Music and the Emotions: The Philosophical Theories (International Library of Philosophy) by Malcolm Budd
Buy new: £20.89 / Used from: £16.35 A bit dry, but still a good book. Looks at how emotions are expressed in Music and the main philosophical theories about the subject.
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 | Values of Art: Pictures, Poetry and Music by Malcolm Budd
Buy used from: £18.55 Examines values of art. The fourth chapter is about Music.
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 | Fundamentals of Musical Composition by Arnold Schoenberg
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £6.10 A good and well structured book about the fundamentals of Musical composition.
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 | Dictionary of Symbols by J. C. Cirlot
Buy new: £17.94 / Used from: £14.50 Music is often used as a symbol. A very good book about symbols and their meaning.
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 | Signs and Symbols: Their Design and Meaning by Adrian Frutiger
Buy used from: £47.42 A very good book about visual signs and symbols, but this relates to Music in many ways. Proportions, connections and relations are of vital importance in music too.
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 | The Self-Made Tapestry: Pattern Formation in Nature by Philip Ball
Buy new: £38.00 / Used from: £31.50 Music is a Pattern and often reflects the patterns found in nature. A good and thorough book about the beautiful and often complex patterns in nature.
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 | Patterns in the Sand: Computers, Complexity and Everyday Life by Terry Bossomaier
Buy new: £9.99 / Used from: £2.27 Another good book about the patterns we find in nature.
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 | Nature's Numbers: Discovering Order and Pattern in the Universe (Science Masters) by Ian Stewart
Buy new: £5.04 / Used from: £0.63 A good and clear book about the math behind nature´s patterns. You don´t need a math background to understand this very good book.
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 | Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick
Buy new: £6.46 / Used from: £0.01 A brilliant book about Chaos theory. The Flowing patterns in Nature. Deterministic nonperiodic flow. Fabulous book.
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 | Complexification: Explaining a Paradoxical World Through the Science of Surprise by John L. Casti
Buy used from: £0.67 The simple and complex patterns. The science of surprise. Patterns in nature and man made patterns. Includes discussion about Music.
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 | Sacred Geometry: Philosophy and Practice (Art and Imagination) by Robert Lawlor
Buy new: £5.79 / Used from: £3.00 The beauty of certain proportion both in time and space. The golden ratio and other interesting proportions.
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 | A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe by Michael S. Schneider
Buy new: £9.01 / Used from: £10.79 Great book. Clearly structured and vell written. About the Mathematical archetypes of nature art and science. Brilliant stuff.
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