Max Weber and Music History

Considerations of Max Weber's influence on and relationship to the historical and sociological study of music, as well as his own attitude to music, have been relegated primarily to discussions of his relatively short exploration of the sociology of music, published posthumously first in 1921 and then again in 1925. Considers whether, if Weber had never written explicitly about music, there might still be something in his work as historian and sociologist that merits the attention of music historians. (Quotes from original text)