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740-437 Music Aesthetics | |
Availability | Offered in alternate years |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
Coordinator | Dr K Murphy |
Prerequisites | BMus Year 2 |
Semester | 2 |
Contact | Two hours of seminars a week in third or fourth year |
Subject Description | Students will become familiar with the fundamental concepts raised in the philosophical area of aesthetics and how these relate specifically to the study of music; learn 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. Topics covered include: 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 and Carl Dahlhaus |
Assessment | One 3-hour examination (50%); essay up to 3,000 words which will be presented as a 20-minute class paper during the semester (50%). |
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