2023

Aesthetics of Music II

Name: Aesthetics of Music II
Code: MUS12940L
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area: Musicology

Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English
Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Sustainable Development Goals

Learning Goals

- Contextualized survey of the main fields of Music Aesthetics, from the Enlightenment to the present time.
- Development of analytical and speculative capacities in what concerns Aesthetic topics, associated with the various texts read during the Semester

Contents

1. Aesthetics of Music in an historical context
2. The XVIIIth Century
2.1 Galant aesthetics
2.2 Imitation and expression
2.3 Operatic aesthetics
3. The XIXth Century
3.1 Romantic aesthetics
3.2 Emtional Realism
3.3 Formalism and autonomy
3.4 The Idealistic tradition
4. the XXth and XXIst Centuries
4.1 Theories of significance
4.2 The Objectivity
4.3 The Phenomenology of Music
4.4 Aesthetics of Music, Sociology of Music and Ethnomusicology

Teaching Methods

Theoretical exposition of the main topics of the curricular unit, case studies, scientific discussions of the proposed student´s works with tutorial accompaniment in what concerns the student´s learning process and the respective oral and written skills. Use of recorded musical examples, both audio and audio/video.

Evaluation:
• Oral and speculative comments of various texts previously given to the students
• Evaluation of the investigation presented by the student in the room:
• Wording of the work: clear writing, avoiding redundancies, repetition and colloquial terms. Use of technical terms and their explanation.
• Depth and quality of the investigation.
• Ways of presentation: clear and interesting
Organization of the work: in coherence with the principals of the discussion about investigative methodology.

Teaching Staff