1. Concept
Even as late as 1967, the Riemann Sachlexikon Musik, a standard work of German musical literature, was still asserting that musical aesthetics was “the science of the beauty of music” as “a subdiscipline of general aesthetics” [6. 9]. Current scholarly discourse, on the other hand, admits that musical aesthetics cannot claim to be a normative discipline capable of, for instance, arriving at an unambiguous…