The idea for a volu~e of new work on issues in the Philosophy of Music emerged after a conference entided 'Aesthetics from an Analytic Point of View', which I co-organized with Julian Dodd. This was held at the University of Manchester in May 2003, and kindly sponsored by the Mind Association, the British Society of Aesthetics, the Analysis Trust, and the University of Manchester. Three of the contributions here (those of Paul Boghossian, Julian Dodd and Michael Morris) are versions of papers delivered at that conference.