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Musical Quality and Musical Taste
Initial Reading

ed. Katherine Bergeron and Philip Bohlman, Disciplining Music (Chicago, 1992)

Marcia Citron, Gender and the Musical Canon (Cambridge, 1993) chapter 1

Nicholas Cook, Music, Imagination and Culture (Oxford, 1990)

_______, and Mark Everist Rethinking Music (Oxford, 1999)

Carl Dahlhaus, Analysis and value judgment (New York,1983)

Simon Frith, "What is good music?, Canadian university music review/Revue de musique des universites canadiennes 10 (1990) 92-102

Joseph Kerman Musicology [Contemplating Music] (London [Cambridge, Mass], 1985)

ed. Richard Leppert and Susan McClary, Music and Society (Cambridge, 1987)

Janet Levy, "Covert and casual values in recent writings about music" Journal of Musicology 5 (1987) 3-27

Fred Maus 'Concepts of musical unity' in Cook & Everist

Terence O'Grady, "Aesthetics, ideology, and musical value", College music symposium, 25 (1985) 152-65

William Pastille, "Schenker's value-judgments", Music theory online 1/6 (Nov 1995)

Don Randall, 'The canons in the musicological toolbox' in ed. Katherine Bergeron and Philip Bohlman, Disciplining Music (Chicago, 1992)

Peter Schubert. "Authentic Analysis." The Journal of Musicology 12 (1994), 3-18

Ruth Solie: 'The living work: organicism and musical analysis' C19th Music 4 (1980)

Donald Tovey Essays in Musical Analysis

William Weber, 'The history of the musical canon' in ed. Nicholas Cook & Mark Everist, Rethinking Music (Oxford, 1999)

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