105年第1學期-3235 人文：禁樂 課程資訊

評分方式

評分項目	配分比例	說明
attendance & participationendance	25
quizzes	20
presentation	25
final exam	30

教育目標

This course explores the music that is forbidden, namely, music in conjunction with censorship of various sorts. More often than not, music has been viewed as a double-bladed tool by the state and the church in Western culture. Its potential danger derives from not only its power to touch—and manipulate—human feelings, but also its ability to carry powerful message, be it political, religious, or aesthetic. When a certain type of music is deemed harmful and censored, consequently, the music in question mirrors the party that censors it, including its value system, political policy, and aesthetic or moral value. Some broad questions we will raise are as follows: should music have a function in society? Should it serve politics, religion, or morality? Where does the audience, taste, cultural trends stand in this context? Can it exist as an independent aesthetic product? We will examine these issues from the following perspectives: 1) Why is a certain type of music forbidden in a certain social, political, cultural, or aesthetic context? Does the censorship derive from the composer? The identity of its performer(s)? The music itself? 2) Who forbids it? Is the music banned by law? By the government? The church? A political party? Does the audience or the artists play a part in the censorship?

基本資料

必修課，學分數：2-0
上課時間：五/8,9[MU319]
修課班級：共必修3,4
修課年級：年級以上
選課備註：全英語授課，音樂系不得選修、教師自主加選；MU：二教區音樂系館上課

參考書目

Burkholder, J. Peter, Donald Jay Grout, and Claude V. Palisca. A History of Western Music. 8th ed. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2010.
Hugo, Victor. The King Amuses Himself. Trans. Frederick L. Slous. New York: Howard Fertig, Inc., 1995.
Strunk, Oliver, ed. Sources Readings in Music History. New York: Norton, 1998.
Wagner, Richard. Judaism and Other Essays. Trans. William Ashton Ellis. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1995.
Weiss, Piero and Richard Taruskin. Music in the Western World: A History in Documents. New York: Schirmer, 1984.