VH_755 Chapters from Aesthetisc of Music

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2009
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Lubomír Spurný, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Jana Perutková, Ph.D.
Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Vlasta Taranzová
Timetable
Thu 8:20–9:55 J22
Prerequisites
VH_39 Bachelor exam
The aesthetics of music: 18th - 20 century.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The main objectives of the course are the following: making students aware of romatic aesthetics; imitation and expression; formalism and autonomy; theories of meaning. Use and apply the terms of musical aesthetics of the period.
Syllabus
  • Definition and characteristics of the term.
  • Aesthetics of Romanticism. (Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder, Johann Ludwig Tieck; Herzensergiessungen eines kunstliebenden Klosterbruders (1797), Phantasien über die Kunst, für Freunde der Kunst (1799); reception of Romanticism in the texts of Carl Dahlhaus, H. H. Eggebrecht, Peter Rummenhöller)
  • Richard Wagner: Gesamtkunstwerk, "Musikdrama", absolute music
  • Musical formalism: Eduard Hanslick, Vom Musikalisch-Schönen (k dispozici česká verze) http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/26949
  • "Entwurf einer neuen Ästhetik der Tonkunst" by Ferruccio Busoni http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24677; http://www.archive.org/details/sketchofanewesth000125mbp
  • Otakar Hostinský: "Das Musikalisch-Schöne und das Gesammtkunstwerk vom Standpuncte der formalen Aesthetik" (1877); Zdeněk Nejedlý: "Krise estetiky" (1913), "Otakara Hostinského estetika" (1921); Otakar Zich: "Estetické vnímání hudby" (1911), "Estetika dramatického umění" (1931)
  • Aesthetics of music and theory of early 20th century. August Otto Halm, Ernst Kurh, Hans Mersmann, Heinrich Schenker
  • Semiotics of music
Literature
  • Scruton, Roger, The aesthetics of music. Oxford University Press 1997. ISBN 019816727X.
  • De la Motte-Haber, Helga (ed.), Musikästhetik. Laaber: Laaber-Verlag 2004. ISBN 3-89007-562-2
  • FUKAČ, Jiří. Hudební estetika jako konkretizace obecné estetiky a muzikologická disciplína (Music aesthetics as concretization of the general aesthetics and a discipline of musicology). 2nd ed. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2001, 168 pp. ISBN 80-210-2575-1. info
  • ADORNO, Theodor W. Estetická teorie. 1. vyd. Praha: Panglos, 1997, 581 s. ISBN 80-902205-4-1. info
  • LIPPMAN, Edward. A history of western musical aesthetics. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1992, 551 s. ISBN 0-8032-2863-5. info
  • DAHLHAUS, Carl. Klassische und romantische Musikästhetik. Laaber: Laaber-Verlag, 1988, 512 s. ISBN 3-89007-142-2. info
  • VÍT, Petr. Formování novodobého historického a estetického myšlení o hudbě jako součást procesu vědeckého a uměleckého vývoje v Čechách v období cca 1760-1848. 1976, 224 s. info
Teaching methods
lectures
Assessment methods
written test; oral exam
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2011, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2017, Spring 2020.
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