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Preface - From Homer to Pythagoras and His Followers - Plato, Aristotleand the Decline of Pythagorean Influence - Between Antiquity and theMiddle Ages - The Middle Ages - Controversies Surrounding the Ars Nova- The Renaissance and the New Intellectual Approach to Music - TheRelation between Music and the Text at the Time of theCounter-Reformation - From Baroque Rationalism to the Aesthetics ofFeeling - The Enlightenment and the Encyclop die - Romanticism - Musicand the Fusion of the Arts - Positivism and other Reactions toRomanticism - Formalism in the 20th Century - Music Aesthetics andItalian Neo-idealism - Music Aesthetics and Sociology of Music - TheAesthetics of Twelve-note Music - Post-Webernian Aesthetics - What Doesthe Future Hold? - Notes - Bibliography - Index