28508 - Philosophy of Music (LM)

Academic Year 2014/2015

  • Docente: Paolo Gozza
  • Credits: 12
  • SSD: L-ART/07
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Music Disciplines (cod. 0967)

Learning outcomes

My course of Philosophy of music offers its students: (a) the historical knowing of the European musical tradition, from Boezio to Rameau, in its relationships to the scientific, philosophical and artistic ideas in the Modern age (from the Reanissance to Romanticism); (b) the understanding of the evolution and changing of musical forms, concepts, and ways of thinking of music in the modern European culture; (c) to thinking music in its cultural changing relations to other learnings and histories.

Course contents

Title: The history of musical pleasure
The subject of Philosophy of Music for the year 2014/15 will be the concept of musical pleasure, its cultural heritage and theoretical foundation. The subject will be discussed through the reading and comment on modern and eighteenth-century musical sources.

Readings/Bibliography

Estetica e musica. L'origine di un incontro, Bologna, CLUEB, 2004, di P. Gozza e A. Serravezza

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