HV_95a Seminar "Musical Aesthetics and Theory" I

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2022
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Lubomír Spurný, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Bc. Klára Hedvika Linkovová Mühlová (seminar tutor)
doc. Mgr. Vladimír Maňas, Ph.D. (assistant)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Lubomír Spurný, Ph.D.
Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Jan Karafiát
Supplier department: Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Thu 10:00–11:40 N43
Prerequisites
HV_01a Introduction to Musicology && HV_02a Proseminar I && HV_02b Proseminar II && HV_04 Elements of Music Theory && HV_05a Harmony I. && HV_08 Intonation && HV_09 Audial Analysis
The aesthetics of music of 20th century.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 25 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 7/25, only registered: 0/25, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/25
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
Reading and interpretation of selected texts in aesthetics and musical analysis, especially the first third of the 20th century. At the end of the course students should be able to understand and explain the terms of music theory and aesthetics of that period.
Learning outcomes
After completing the subject, the student will be better oriented in musical theoretical and aesthetic texts of the 1st half of the 20th century.
Syllabus
  • Students will choose some of the topics listed below and will regularly report on the results of their studies at the seminars. Seminar exercises refer to the following thematic areas.
  • 1. The relation between musical theory and musical aesthetics.
  • 2. Functional Theory and Step Theory (Sechter-Riemann) - Differences and Parallels
  • 3. Schenker's theory, aesthetics, ideology, the reception of Schenker's theory (Schenker's pupils and "Schenkerianism"). Art and ideology. Are there objective criteria for assessing 19th century music? This author's controversy in various countries. What's Schichtenlehre's really new to Schenker?
  • 4. Goethe and music, Goethe's reference in musical theory and aesthetics (A.B. Marx, H. Schenker, A. Webern, A. Hába, etc.) Goethe's influence on musical theory of the 19th and 20th centuries.
  • 5. Busoni's Proposal for a new aesthetics of musical art: microinterval music, the struggle for a new opera. 6.
  • Busoni's "junge Klassizität" and "alternative modern". Protecting your own texts from new interpreters and the short history of microinterval music.
  • 7. Schönberg's theory of music and aesthetics. Different conceptions of the creation of the work of art in the second and third creative periods (so-called free atonality and dockafony).
  • 8. Schönberg's "Vienna" and "Berlin School".
  • 9. Ernst Kurth: The Romantic Harmonik und ihre Krise in Wagners "Tristan".
  • 10. August Halm: Von zwei Kulturen der Musik.
  • 11. Háb's Neue Harmonielehre (World's Most Famous Work of Home Music Theory?) - Does Háb's textbook only record the author's individual technique (Shin), or is it a reflection of more general stylistic tendencies?
Literature
  • SCHENKER, Heinrich. The art of performance. Edited by Heribert Esser, Translated by Irene Schreier Scott. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000, xxvii, 101. ISBN 0195151518. info
  • FUKAČ, Jiří. Základy hudební sémiotiky. Vyd. 1. V Brně: Masarykova univerzita, 1992, 233 s. ISBN 8021003731. info
  • FUKAČ, Jiří. Pojmosloví hudební komunikace. Vyd. 1. Brno: Rektorát Masarykovy univerzity, 1991, 114 s. ISBN 80-210-0245-X. info
  • FORTE, Allen and Steven E. GILBERT. Introduction to Schenkerian analysis. Edited by Heinrich Schenker. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1982, 397 s. ISBN 0393951928. info
  • SCHENKER, Heinrich. Harmony. Edited by Oswald Jonas, Translated by Elisabeth Mann-Borgese. Pbk. ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980, xxxii, 359. ISBN 0226737349. info
  • SCHENKER, Heinrich. Five graphic music analyses. Edited by Felix Salzer. New York: Dover, 1969, 61 s. ISBN 9780486222943. info
Teaching methods
seminars, readings
Assessment methods
seminar task; presentation (80% attendance)
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
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