Music Aesthetics and Criticism

Year
0
Academic year
2019-2020
Code
01012764
Subject Area
Área Científica do Menor
Language of Instruction
Portuguese
Mode of Delivery
Face-to-face
Duration
SEMESTRIAL
ECTS Credits
6.0
Type
Elective
Level
1st Cycle Studies

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

Classes are organized to encourage the students’ active involvement in learning, fostering student teacher interaction.

The theoretical exposition will be illustrated with musical examples and documentation.

Presentation and discussion of work done by students on topics or texts previously indicated.

Learning Outcomes

Understand the main aspects of Criticism and Musical Aesthetics. Encourage and develop the critical skills. To stimulate critical reflection on the diversity of aesthetic currents and the in the contemporary world.

By the end of the semester, the student should be able to:

- develop the ability to question in aesthetics and music crossing with other philosophical, artistic and cultural problems;

- develop the ability to situate aesthetic concepts and values in historical and cultural context;

- develop the ability to identify elements of continuity, change and disruption throughout the history of philosophical and musical thought.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

- Retrospective of the main issues of Criticism and Musical Aesthetics.

- Aesthetics as a philosophical reflection on the arts.

- Music nature and its meaning - key concepts, categories and relevant issues.

- Music thinking in the classic antiquity - music as imitation.

- Music in context modernity  to the eighteenth century: (Baumgarten and Kant) - music as idea - rationalism and empirism, ojective and subjective, aesthetic experience and knowledge.

- The central issues of criticism and aesthetic thought in nineteenth-century - music as autonomous form.

- Main issues and concepts in phenomenology - music as experienced.

- Music as social, political and economical force (Adorno and Attali).

- Central questions and discution in the contemporary world - multiple musical cultures and subcultures, music as a multicultural phenomenon - a postmodern musical aesthetic.

Head Lecturer(s)

José António Oliveira Martins

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Exam: 100.0%

Bibliography

BEARD, David; Kenneth, GLOAG, (eds.), Musicology: The Key Concepts, Routledge, 2005.

BERGER, Karol, A Theory of Art, Oxford University Press, 2000

BLANNING, Tim, The Triumph of Music: Composers, Musicians and Their Andiences, 1700 to the Present, Penguin Books, 2008.

BOWMAN, Wayne, Philosophical Perspectives on Music, Oxford University Press, 1998.

COOK, Nicholas; POPLE, Anthony, (eds.), The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Music, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004.

COOK, Nicholas, Music: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, 1998.

COOK, Nicholas; EVERIST, Mark, (eds.), Rethinking Music, Oxford University Press, 2001.

HARPER-SCOTT, J. P. E.; SAMSON, Jim, (eds.), An Introduction to Music Studies, Cambridge University Press, 2009.

KIVY, Peter, Introduction to a Philosophy of Music, Clarendon Press, 2002.

GRACYK, Theodore; KANIA, Andrew (ed). The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music, Routledge, 2013.

SCRUTON, Roger, The Aesthetics of Music, Clarendon