VHK_755 Chapters from Aesthetisc of Music

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2015
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 10 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Lubomír Spurný, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. Mgr. Vladimír Maňas, Ph.D. (assistant)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Vladimír Maňas, Ph.D.
Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Alena Taranzová
Supplier department: Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Prerequisites
VHK_26 Bachelor exam || 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.
  • POLEDŇÁK, Ivan. Hudba jako problém estetiky. Vyd. 1. Praha: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Nakladatelství Karolinum, 2006, 287 s. ISBN 8024612151. info
  • Handbuch der systematischen Musikwissenschaft. Edited by Helga de La Motte- Haber - Eckhard Tramsen. Laaber: Laaber, 2004, 458 s. ISBN 3890075622. info
  • 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. Estetické myšlení o hudbě : (české země 1760-1860). Praha: Academia, 1987, 99 s. info
  • DAHLHAUS, Carl. Esthetics of music. Translated by William W. Austin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982, xii, 115. ISBN 0521280079. 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 taught: in blocks.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2009, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2013, Spring 2014, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2017.
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