Postgraduate Course: Music, Philosophy and Politics (MUSI11052)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | Music |
Other subject area | None |
| Course website |
None |
Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | This course introduces students to the various philosophical meanings and political uses attached to Western art music since the Enlightenment. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | No |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2014/15 Semester 2, Available to all students (SV1)
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Learn enabled: No |
Quota: None |
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Web Timetable |
Web Timetable |
| Course Start Date |
12/01/2015 |
| Breakdown of Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Seminar/Tutorial Hours 20,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
176 )
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| Additional Notes |
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| Breakdown of Assessment Methods (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
1. Demonstrate a critical understanding of certain key concepts and theories in the philosophy of music
2. Recognise the philosophical and ideological underpinnings of earlier musical discourse
3. Appraise in concrete instances how music has operated as a social and political force
4. Evaluate critically the problems in mediating between music and society |
Assessment Information
1) One 3,000-word essay, worth 50% of total course mark, due in Week 7 of the course.
2) One 3,000-word essay, worth 50% of total course mark, due at the end of Semester 2.
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Special Arrangements
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Additional Information
| Academic description |
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| Syllabus |
Topics covered in the course will include:
- Genius and Imperative of Originality
- The Musical Work and its Ontology
- Musical Autonomy
- Music as Metaphysics
- Music¿s Meanings
- Music as Sociology
- Music as Politics
- Music in the Third Reich
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| Transferable skills |
Not entered |
| Reading list |
Kant, Immanuel: Critique of Judgement, trans. James Creed Meridith (Oxford, 1978).
Bonds, Mark Evan: ¿Idealism and the Aesthetics of Instrumental Music at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century¿, Journal of the American Musicological Society, 50 (1997), 387-420.
Hoffmann, E.T.A.: Musical Writings: ¿Kreisleriana¿, ¿The Poet and the Composer¿, Music Criticism, trans. Martyn Clarke, ed. David Charlton (Cambridge, 1989).
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich: Aesthetics: Lectures on Fine Art, trans. T.M. Knox, 2 vols. (Oxford, 1975).
Schopenhauer, Arthur: The World as Will and Representation, trans. E.F.J. Payne, 2 vols. (New York, 1966).
Hanslick, Eduard: On the Beautiful in Music, trans. Geoffrey Payzant (Indianapolis, 1986).
Bloch, Ernst: Essays on the Philosophy of Music, trans. Peter Palmer (Cambridge
1985).
Adorno, Theodor W.: Essays on Music, ed. Richard D. Leppert, trans. Susan H. Gillespie (Berkeley & Los Angeles, 2002).
Philosophy of Modern Music, trans. Anne Mitchell & Wesley Blomster (New York, 1973).
Dahlhaus, Carl: Esthetics of Music, trans. William Austin (Cambridge, 1982).
Schoenberg and the New Music, trans. Derrick Puffett & Alfred Clayton (Cambridge, 1987).
Subotnik, Rose Rosengard: Deconstructive Variations: Music and Reason in Western Society (Minnesota, 1995).
Goehr, Lydia: The Imaginary Museum of Musical Works: An Essay in the Philosophy of Music (Oxford, 1992).
Scruton, Roger: Aesthetics of Music (Oxford, 1997).
Chua, Daniel K.L.: Absolute Music and the Construction of Meaning (Cambridge, 1999).
Bowie, Andrew: Music, Philosophy and Modernity (Cambridge, 2007).
Kramer, Lawrence: Interpreting Music (Berkeley & Los Angeles, 2011).
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| Study Abroad |
Not entered |
| Study Pattern |
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| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Benedict Taylor
Tel: (0131 6)50 4155
Email: B.Taylor@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Lyndsay Hopes
Tel: (0131 6)51 5735
Email: Lyndsay.Hopes@ed.ac.uk |
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