39438 - Philosophy and Musical Aesthetics (A-L)

Academic Year 2018/2019

  • Docente: Maria Semi
  • Credits: 12
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Drama, Art and Music Studies (cod. 0956)

Course contents

What are, what have been, and what could musical aesthetics and the philosophy of music be? This class aims to give an overview of some of the major issues raised by this discipline by reading some of the works of one of the major thinkers of the Eighteenth century: Jean-Jacques Rousseau. The study of Rousseau’s works, which will be the object of the written examination, will provide many ideas to think about the philosophy of music in broader terms, even in different epochs and contexts.

Readings/Bibliography

Compulsory reading:

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Scritti sulle arti, a cura di F. Bollino, Bologna, CLUEB, 1998 (2 ed.).

Enrico Fubini, Gli enciclopedisti e la musica, Torino, Einaudi, 1971, pp. 92-132.

Enrico Fubini, L’estetica musicale dal Settecento a oggi, Torino, Einaudi (New expanded edition, 1987), pp. 1-108.

One of the following two texts [it is compulsory to select one ofthem]:

1. Amalia Collisani, La musica di Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Palermo, l’Epos, 2007

2. Alessandra Corbelli, L’estetica musicale di Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Bologna, CLUEB, 2006.

[International students, and particularly francophone ones, can ask for a different bibliography and can read Rousseau in the original version, BUT they have to previously get in touch with the teacher and reach a written agreement]

Teaching methods

Lecturing

Assessment methods

Students will we assessed through two written tasks, to be performed in a strict chronological order:

1. Students have to write a paper (max 1500 words) in which they present one or more themes of Rousseau's musical aesthetics to their liking. The paper (containing name, surname, course and year of study, mail address) has to be handed in to the teacher on the day of the exams' sessions. [If you don't hand in the paper, you cannot proceed to the 2nd part of the written exam]

2. Students have to answer a written questionnaire, with open questions on the books they had to study. The student has two hours to complete the task.

 

"Copy and paste" practices and plagiarism are not to be tolerated.

Teaching tools

Audio & Video

Office hours

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