音樂學實務一

Literature and music adaptations Reading: Mérimée, Carmen

Literature and music adaptations (cont.) Repertory: Bizet, Carmen

Influences in literature and the arts Reading: Bloom, Anxiety of Influence, Prologue & ch. 1 (“Clinamen or Poetic Misprision”)

Influences in literature and the arts (cont.) Reading; Korsyn, “Towards a New Poetic of Musical Influence,” Music Analysis (1991) (JSTOR)

Taste and cultural studies Reading: Bourdieu, Distinction, Introduction & ch. 4 (“The Dynamics of the Fields”)

Taste and cultural studies (cont.)

The culture of listening Reading: Johnson, Listening in Paris (excerpt)

The culture of listening (cont.)

Midterm presentation

Music and sensibility in the eighteenth century Reading: Castelvecchi, “From Nina to Nina”: Psychodrama, Absorption and Sentiment in the 1780s,” Cambridge Opera Journal (1996)

Music and sensibility in the eighteenth century (cont.)

Music and the uncanny Reading: Cohn, “Uncanny Resemblances: Tonal Signification in the Freudian Age,” Journal of the American Musicological Society (2004)

Music and the uncanny (cont.)

Brecht and music Reading: Kowalke, “Singing Brecht vs. Brecht Singing: Performance in Theory and Performace,” Cambridge Opera Journal (1993)

Brecht and music (cont.)

Study period

individual appointment

presentation of term project