• Agawu, V. Kofi, Music as discourse: semiotic adventures in romantic music, Oxford, Oxford University Press, cop. 2009Compulsory* (pp.15–39)
• Dahlhaus, Carl; Austin, William W., Esthetics of music, Cambridge, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1982Compulsory* (pp.53–83)
• Leppert, Richard D.; McClary, Susan, Music and society: the politics of composition, performance and reception, Cambridge, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1987Compulsory* (Introduction and pp.13–41)
• Abbate, Carolyn, Unsung VoicesCompulsory* (Chapter 2, pp30–60)
• Hanslick, Eduard; Payzant, Geoffrey, On the musically beautiful: a contribution towards the revision of the aesthetics of music, Indianapolis, Ind., Hackett Publ., cop. 1986Compulsory* (Chapter 1–3, pp.1–44)
• Dahlhaus, Carl; Robinson, J. Bradford, Foundations of music history, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, [1983]Compulsory* (Chapter 4–10, pp.44–165)
• Taruskin, Richard; Taruskin, Richard F., Text and Act: Essays on Music and Performance, New York, Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 1995Compulsory* (pp.90–154)
• Besseler, Heinrich, Fundamental Issues of Musical ListeningCompulsory*
• Rosen, Charles, The classical style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, New ed., London, Faber, cop. 1997Compulsory* (Chapter IV, Serious Opera, pp.167–182)
• Levy, Kenneth, Charlemagne's Archetype of Gregorian ChantCompulsory*
• Abbate, Carolyn, Music - Drastic or Gnostic?Compulsory*
• Berger, Karol, Musicology According to Don Giovanni, or: Should We Get Drastic?Compulsory*
• Jander, Owen, Beethoven's "Orpheus in Hades": The "Andante con moto" of the Fourth Piano ConcertoCompulsory*

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