HVK_755 Chapters from Aesthetisc of Music

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2021
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 10 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Taught in person.
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Lubomír Spurný, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Bc. Klára Hedvika Linkovová Mühlová (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
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
there are 10 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
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.
Learning outcomes
Student will be able to:
identify and summarize important features of musical aesthetics
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. 287 s. ISBN 8024612151. 2006. info
  • Handbuch der systematischen Musikwissenschaft. Edited by Helga de La Motte- Haber - Eckhard Tramsen. Laaber: Laaber. 458 s. ISBN 3890075622. 2004. 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. 168 pp. ISBN 80-210-2575-1. 2001. info
  • ADORNO, Theodor W. Estetická teorie. 1. vyd. Praha: Panglos. 581 s. ISBN 80-902205-4-1. 1997. info
  • LIPPMAN, Edward. A history of western musical aesthetics. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 551 s. ISBN 0-8032-2863-5. 1992. info
  • DAHLHAUS, Carl. Klassische und romantische Musikästhetik. Laaber: Laaber-Verlag. 512 s. ISBN 3-89007-142-2. 1988. info
  • VÍT, Petr. Estetické myšlení o hudbě : (České země 1760-1860). Praha: Academia. 99 s. 1987. info
  • DAHLHAUS, Carl. Esthetics of music. Translated by William W. Austin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. xii, 115. ISBN 0521280079. 1982. info
Teaching methods
lectures
Assessment methods
written test; oral exam
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
The course is taught: in blocks.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 8 hodin + 8 hodin individuálních konzultací.
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