104年第2學期-7010 音樂美學 課程資訊

評分方式

評分項目	配分比例	說明
attendance & participation	30
midterm & final exams	35
Presentation	35

教育目標

This course explores the meaning of music aesthetics and how it relates to the tradition of Western art music. We will survey the historical and cultural background of music aesthetics, as well as the artists, composers, literary figures, philosophers, for whom it had a great impact on their creation and viewpoints of contemporary music. This course is divided into three parts. In Part I, we focus on E. Hanslick’s On the Musically Beautiful, a prose writing, in which the famous music critic offers a critical take on the interpretation and listening mode of Romantic music. In Part II, we discuss the relationship between Romanticism and the birth of music aesthetics. Our examples include prose writings by Schumann, as well as his contemporary literary figures, including Jean Paul and ETA Hofmann. Part III concerns the aesthetics of modern music. We will have a close reading of the works by philosophers and composers such as Adorno, Debussy, and Stravinsky, to whom music’s changed meaning and its function in society radically changed the way 20th-century music was interpreted.

基本資料

選修課，學分數：0-2
上課時間：三/9,10[MU319]
修課班級：音樂碩1,2
修課年級：年級以上
選課備註：第一堂課未出席者，視同棄權；系所合上

參考書目

Hanslick, Eduard. The Beautiful in Music. Trans. Gustav Cohen. New York: Da Capo Press, 1974.
Lesure, François. Ed. Debussy on Music. Trans. Richard Langham Smith. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1977.
Stravinsky, Igor. Poetics of Music. Trans. Arthur Knodel and Ingolf Dahl. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1970.
Strunk, Oliver. Ed. Source Readings in Music History. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1998.