HV_95b Seminar "Musical Aesthetics and Theory" II

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2023
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)
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_95a Seminar "Musical Aesthetics" I
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 30 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 6/30, only registered: 2/30, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 1/30
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The seminar offers the opportunity to deal with the historical and methodological problems of musical aesthetics, semiotics and theory of communication and to study from the point of view of these disciplines the processes of musical creation, interpretation and reception. The individual research work of students can also be focused on the semantic analysis of individual musical works, the study of the interaction of music with other types of art, and the semantic analysis and the hermeneutics of verbal texts on music. In addition, papers on the history of aesthetical and semiotic orientated musical thinking can be prepared in the course of the seminar.
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
  • FUKAČ, Jiří. Základy hudební sémiotiky. Vyd. 1. V Brně: Masarykova univerzita, 1992, 303 s. ISBN 8021005661. info
  • FUKAČ, Jiří. Základy hudební sémiotiky. D. 3. V Brně: Masarykova univerzita, 1992. ISBN 80-210-0567-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
The course is taught annually.
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