Advanced Analysis

3.0 credits

This course examines philosophical approaches to music (broadly defined) and thus lies at the frontiers of music theory, philosophical aesthetics, and philosophy of art. Themes to be explored include the ontology of music, performance theory, the problem of musical representation, musical semiotics, phenomenology of music, music and aesthetic value, and musical affect theory. Theoreticians and philosophers studied include classic (Hanslick, Gurney), as well as twentieth-century (Adorno, Jankélévitch) and contemporary (Peter Kivy, Stephen Davies, Lydia Goehr, Jean-Jacques Nattiez) authors. No prerequisites, students must be able to read music notation to take this course. Conducted in English