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Course: Music Aesthetics

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Course title Music Aesthetics
Course code KMU/HES
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminar
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 5
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Stratilková Martina, Mgr. et Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
Themes: 1. delimitation of musical aesthetics (its relations to philosophy, semiotics, music criticism, its place in the system of musicology) 2. ontology of a musical work of art 3. meaning and expression in music 4. thoughts on music in the antiquity 5. music in mediaeval treatises on music, music in mediaeval education 6. music with text in the 16th century 7. aesthetics of opera and of instrumental music in the 17th century 8. controversies about opera in the 18th century 9. aesthetics of music in the 19th century 1 10. aesthetics of music in the 19th century 2 11. new trends in the 20th century music aesthetics 12. 20th century composers on their muusic

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook)
  • Attendace - 26 hours per semester
  • Preparation for the Exam - 35 hours per semester
  • Homework for Teaching - 35 hours per semester
  • Semestral Work - 29 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
The course introduces into the history of aesthetic thinking about music and into basic terminology as well as problems of aesthetic thinking about music.
Students will be familiar with the development of views on musical beauty. They will be familiar with the criteria of the evaluation of a musical work of art and will be able to interpret it as an expression of a certain time period. Students will gain knowledge in dealing with general categories of philosophical nature.
Prerequisites
Students should be well acquainted with basic theoretical terminology on music, with music history and musicology.

Assessment methods and criteria
Mark

Students should approve basic orientation in problems and history of asthetic thinking about music from antiquity to the 20th century in the amount of lectured subject matters and obligatory literature. He should also be able to debate over the items of literature he chose from the list of obligatory but optional literature.
Recommended literature
  • Dahlhaus, C. Musikästhetik. Musikverlag Hans Gerig, Köln 1967; resp. Esthetics of music. Cambridge University Press, 1982.
  • Eco, U. Umění a krása ve středověké estetice. Argo, Praha 1998.
  • Eggebrecht, H. H. Hudba a krásno. Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, Praha 2001.
  • Fukač, J. Hudební estetika jako konkretizace obecné estetiky a muzikologická disciplína. Brno 1998..
  • Hanslick, E. O hudebním krásnu.
  • Hegel, G. W. F. Hudba. In: Estetika. Odeon, Praha 1966, sv. 2, s. 170-209.
  • Hostinský, O. Hudební krásno a souborné umělecké dílo z hlediska formální estetiky. In: Otakar Hostinský: O hudbě, Praha 1961..
  • Kolektiv autorů. Hudební estetika, kapitola in: Hudební věda II, Praha 1988..
  • Lippman, E. A. A history of Western musical aesthetics, University of Nebraska Press, 1994..
  • Lissa, Z. Nové studie z hudební estetiky. Supraphon, Praha 1982.
  • Nietzsche, F. Zrození tragédie. Vyšehrad, Praha 2008.
  • Poledňák, I. Hudba jako problém estetiky. Praha 2006..
  • Sychra, A. Impresionismus a exprese v hudbě. Supraphon, Praha 1990.
  • Vičar, J. Dykast, R. Hudební estetika, Praha 1998..
  • Vít, P.:. Estetické myšlení o hudbě (České země 1760-1860). Academia, Praha 1987.
  • Zich, J. Kapitoly a studie z hudební estetiky. Praha 1975, 1987.


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Palacký University Olomouc, date of update: 30.10.2025 23:58. Data created for academic year 2025/2026