 Edmund Husserl (1859–1938) developed phenomenology as a philosophical method aimed at grounding any objectivity in the first-person experiences through which it is constituted. Husserl devoted to music only passing observations, the best known of which is the illustration of his analysis of time consciousness by means of the experience of perceiving a melody (Husserl 1991). Other philosophers adopted a phenomenological methodology to carry out more systematic investigations (for a survey, see Lippman 1992: chapter 14).