Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Music (Volume 3 page 238)
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Elective Music subject.
Availability: Offered in alternate years. Not available in 1996.
Credit points: 10.0
Coordinator: Dr K Murphy.
Prerequisite: Two Group A subjects.
Contact: Two hours of seminars a week for one semester in third or fourth year for one semester.
Objectives:
On completion of this subject students should have become familiar with the fundamental concepts raised in the philosophical area of aesthetics and how these relate specifically to the study of music; learned to question what it is that we understand by music; become acquainted with the sorts of questions that people have asked about music in the past and today.
Content:
Major issues in aesthetics with particular reference to music. The philosophical questions of intentionality, subjectivity and objectivity. What is a work of music? How do we understand it? Expressionist and formalist theories of art. Studies of the writings of Stanley Cavell, Deryck Cooke, Eduard Hanslick, Carl Dahlhaus.
Assessment:
A 3-hour end-of-semester examination (50 per cent) and an essay of up to 3,000 words which will be presented as a 20-minute class paper during the semester (50 per cent).
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Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Music (Volume 3 page 238)
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