Philosophy of Music Seminar
Org. Sara Eckerson, Humberto Brito
This seminar will serve as an introduction to texts and themes on the topic of the philosophy of music. The seminar will focus on important texts in the philosophy of music, beginning with Kant and Hegel. We will also consider concepts frequently discussed in the philosophy of music such as: representation, absolute music, and musical analysis. The seminar will be in Portuguese and English. All the texts will be made available.
Monthly sessions, Tuesdays 5.30pm-7.30pm, FCSH I&D Building
READINGS
21.09.2010
KANT, Critique of the Power of Judgment. Paul Guyer, trans. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 5:328 – Remark; 5:330 – 5:333; §16; Exemplo de Lectures on Metaphysics: Psychology 28:251–252, Karl Ameriks, trans. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
HEGEL, Hegel’s Aesthetics: Lectures on Fine Art, Volume II, “Music”, Section III: “Relation between music’s means of Expression and their content”, T.M. Knox, trans. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975 (933–958).
19.10.2010
HANSLICK, On the Musically Beautiful (1891), 8th edition. Geoffrey Payzant, trans. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1986. Chapters III (28–44) e VII (77–83).
23.11.2010
DAHLHAUS. The Idea of Absolute Music (1978). Roger Lustig, trans. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989. Chapter 7 “Musical Logic and Speech Character” (103–116).
14.12.2010
ADORNO, “On the Problem of Musical Analysis” (1969), trans. Max Paddison, Essays on Music, Berkeley: University of California, 2002 (162–180).
18.01.2011
PEACOCKE, “The Perception of Music: Sources of Significance” British Journal of Aesthetics, Vol. 49, Number 3, July 2009 (257-275).
22.02.2011
LEVINSON “Song and Music Drama”, “Performative vs. Critical Interpretation in Music”, The Pleasures of Aesthetics, New York and London: Cornell University Press, 1996. (42–59; 60–89).
22.03.2011
SCRUTON, “Understanding” in Aesthetics of Music. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1997 (211–238).
WITTGENSTEIN, Culture and Value (1977). Peter Winch, trans. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers Ltd., 1998.
