| Course title | Music Aesthetics |
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| Course code | KMU/HE |
| Organizational form of instruction | Lecture + Seminar |
| Level of course | Master |
| Year of study | not specified |
| Semester | Winter and summer |
| Number of ECTS credits | 4 |
| Language of instruction | Czech |
| Status of course | Compulsory |
| Form of instruction | Face-to-face |
| Work placements | This is not an internship |
| Recommended optional programme components | None |
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| Course content |
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Themes: 1. delimitation of musical aesthetics (its relations to philosophy, semiotics, music criticism, its place in the system of musicology) 2. ontology of a musical work of art 3. meaning and expression in music 4. thoughts on music in the antiquity 5. music in mediaeval treatises on music, music in mediaeval education 6. music with text in the 16th century 7. aesthetics of opera and of instrumental music in the 17th century 8. controversies about opera in the 18th century 9. aesthetics of music in the 19th century 1 10. aesthetics of music in the 19th century 2 11. new trends in the 20th century music aesthetics 12. 20th century composers on their music
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| Learning activities and teaching methods |
Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook)
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| Learning outcomes |
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The course introduces into the history of aesthetic thinking about music and into basic terminology as well as problems of aesthetic thinking about music.
Students will be familiar with the development of views on musical beauty. They will be familiar with the criteria of the evaluation of a musical work of art and will be able to interpret it as an expression of a certain time period. Students will gain knowledge in dealing with general categories of philosophical nature. |
| Prerequisites |
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Students should be well acquainted with basic theoretical terminology on music, with music history and musicology.
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| Assessment methods and criteria |
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Mark
Students should approve basic orientation in problems and history of asthetic thinking about music from antiquity to the 20th century in the amount of lectured subject matters and obligatory literature. He should also be able to debate over the items of literature he chose from the list of obligatory but optional literature. |
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| Study plans that include the course |
| Faculty | Study plan (Version) | Category of Branch/Specialization | Recommended semester | |
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| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Musicology (2019) | Category: Theory and history of arts | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Musicology (2019) | Category: Theory and history of arts | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Musicology (2019) | Category: Theory and history of arts | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |