203 D. Martin Sáez: The Expression »Philosophy of Music«. A Brief History and Some Philosophical Considerations IRASM 52 (2021) 2: 203-219 The Expression »Philosophy of Music«. A Brief History and Some Philosophical Considerations Daniel Martín Sáez Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Ciudad Universitaria de Cantoblanco 28049 MADRID Spain Email: daniel.martins@inv. uam.es UDC: 78.01(091) Original Scholarly Paper Izvorni znanstveni rad Received: 7 July 2019 Primljeno: 7. srpnja 2019. Accepted: 20 January 2020 Prihvaćeno: 20. siječnja 2020. Abstract – Résumé Four decades ago, a new discipline began to develop in American universities, the so-called »Philosophy of Music«. But why was that label chosen? When was it used for the first time? In what context did it happen? Philosophers have paid no attention to the history of the expression, which is also the history of a philosophical idea, and most of the early sources are virtually unknown. They are essential to understand- ing what »philosophy of music« is. I study the history of the expression from a philosophical perspective, trying to under- stand its birth and its sur- vival to this day. Keywords: aesthetics  philosophy of music  musicology  American universities  musical work  art  beauty Introduction: Relevance of the Subject About four decades ago, a new discipline began to develop in American universities, the so-called Philosophy of Music, understood as a specialization within the field of Aesthetics or Philosophy of Art. Since the 1980s, dozens of books and hundreds of articles have been published under that name. Philos- ophers such as Peter Kivy, Stephen Davies, Jerrold Levinson and James O. Young have dedicated their career almost exclusively to writing about art and music. Kivy alone wrote about fifteen books and dozens of articles about music, some of them trans- lated into Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Chinese and Korean. This kind of scholarship is discussed by many experts, who are concerned about the same issues and use similar approaches. We can say this has become a scholastic tradition. This is a completely new phenomenon. Only Theodor W. Adorno wrote so much about philosophy and music, but not even he created a university insti- tution under that name. On the other hand, these university philosophers do not pretend to place