CONRAD GREBEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE THE UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC MUSIC 332: AESTHETICS OF MUSIC COURSE OUTLINE & SCHEDULE: WINTER 2013

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1 CONRAD GREBEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE THE UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC MUSIC 332: AESTHETICS OF MUSIC COURSE OUTLINE SCHEDULE: WINTER 2013 Classes: Instructor: Office Hrs: Tuesdays Thursdays, 11:30-12:50, CGC Room 1300 (note room change) Dr. Laura Gray, CGC 1102, ext.24247, T/Th 9:00-10:30am 1:30-3:00pm or appt. Wed or Fri; out of office most Mondays Required Materials: Reading Packet available at UW bookstore Packet readings also on reserve: CGC library, 3rd floor Some readings are only available online: see class Learn website and the reading list below for links. Access course reserves login at Writing Guide: Citing Music Sources: Course Website on Learn: login at Prerequisites: Instructor Consent Required. Some knowledge of musical-historical periods, musical forms and styles, or some background in philosophy is strongly recommended. Course Description: The history of music involves not only a body of musical works by various composers in different eras but also a history of ideas: the aesthetic, philosophical, and sociological impulses and questions that arise in the context of musical creation and experience. Some questions are perennial: they return again and again, perhaps never fully answered or answerable What is music? Who or what is a musician? What is music s purpose or role in society? How do we judge a piece of music? Other questions reflect more closely a particular time in history or they respond to issues stemming from a particular Zeitgeist. This course offers an opportunity to contemplate music and to explore questions of musical meaning. Through study and discussion of selected primary and secondary sources from antiquity to the present, such themes as imitation and abstraction in music, the ways in which music is related to beauty, expression and emotion, and the nature and purpose of music will be examined in historical context and in relation to the other arts. Because musical thinkers take their place in a historical continuum, building on or reacting to the work of their predecessors, the framework of our study is chronological. We will focus most closely, however, on ideas and debates from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Classes will combine lectures, group discussion, and student presentations.

2 Requirements, Grade Breakdown Due Dates: 5 Take-home quizzes on Reading (see below) 25% (5X5%) See schedule for due dates, 11:30 am 2 Reading Responses (see below) 10% (2X5%) Due Feb 14 Mar 12, 11:30 am Participation (see below) 10% 5%: attendance 2.5% instructor evaluation grade 2.5%: student participation self-evaluation grade Due Thurs April 4, 11:30 am Meeting with me about essay topic 2% sign up for appointment; before Feb 7 Essay proposal, outline bibliography 8% Due Thurs Feb 7, 11:30 am (see proposal instructions, p.10) Class Presentation (on essay topic) 20% TBA (March 14-April 2) (see instructions, p.8) Essay (see instructions, p.9) 20% Due Thurs April 4, 11:30 am Revised Essay* 5% Due Thurs April 18, 4:30 pm *If a student decides not to revise the essay, the original mark out of 20% will be recalculated out of 25%. ***All assignments are due at the beginning of class and must be submitted in hard copy.*** More detailed information about Assignments: Reading Responses: -there are two reading responses: one due before reading week, the other after reading week. -each reading response should be approximately 2 pages (12-point font, double-spaced). -for each response, pick one text from this term s readings that you found most interesting or that more than any other may have altered your perception of music and its meaning. (Please refrain from discussing a text that you are using in your essay project.) *Reading Response 1: pick a reading from *Reading Response 2: pick a reading from a) Identify and summarize very briefly the main argument in this text. b) Discuss which element of the text you found most interesting, persuasive or thought-provoking and why. c) Identify which element of the reading you found most problematic and explain why. -avoid making your assignment a string of quotations. Demonstrate your critical understanding and assimilation of the text by paraphrasing in your own words. Make sure that whether you quote or paraphrase, that you properly cite the source. Participation: -half of this mark (5%) is based on attendance: -you will check off your name for each class attended on an attendance sheet -please contact me in case of illness or other unavoidable circumstances that prevent your attendance -a quarter of the grade (2.5%) is based on my assessment of your participation, which includes: -being engaged: -in class with your peers and with the readings -full attendance and engagement in the presentations of your peers -there are many ways of being engaged: -not just the frequency of comments or questions -a quarter of the grade (2.5%) is based on your own assessment of your participation: -submit a half- to one-page reflection of your interaction and engagement in the course and assign yourself a grade out of 5 (which I will recalculate out of 2.5%)

3 Take-home quizzes on reading materials: -these will be distributed in hard copy (and posted on Learn) well in advance of their due date. -they are take-home and open-book. -the purpose is to facilitate engagement with the reading before the class in which the reading is discussed. -the types of questions are a mixture of short-answer, multiple-choice, and true-false. -to be completed and submitted by 11:30am on the due date listed in the course outline and printed at the top of the test. Some Expectations: *MUTUAL RESPECT* -turn off cell phones other electronic distractions: please refrain from texting, facebook, tweeting, working on other coursework during class -listen to everyone: be quiet when someone else is speaking -speak with courtesy and respect when disagreeing with another student or the instructor -arrive on time and be ready to begin by 11:30am (or let me know if you are unable to get to class on time) -eating in class is acceptable as long as you do not disturb your peers and clean up after yourself. -it is the student s responsibility to catch up on any missed lectures. (I will not class notes.) -students are expected to attend all classes and to have completed all reading before class. -students must submit assignments by the beginning of class on the day indicated on the class schedule. -without a doctor s note or other official document, assignments will lose 10% for every week or part of a week that they are late. In exceptional circumstances, requests for an extension should be made in writing for consideration well in advance of the due date. -Students are encouraged to take a pro-active approach to address potential scheduling conflicts or other problems. -assignments must be submitted in hard copy. ed copies will not be accepted. -please let me know if there s something that I can do to improve your experience in the class. University of Waterloo Information: Academic Integrity: In order to maintain a culture of academic integrity, members of the University of Waterloo are expected to promote honesty, trust, fairness, respect and responsibility. Discipline: A student is expected to know what constitutes academic integrity, to avoid committing academic offences, and to take responsibility for his/her actions. A student who is unsure whether an action constitutes an offence, or who needs help in learning how to avoid offences (e.g., plagiarism, cheating) or about rules for group work/collaboration should seek guidance from the course professor, academic advisor, or the Undergraduate Associate Dean. When misconduct has been found to have occurred, disciplinary penalties will be imposed under Policy 71 Student Discipline. For information on categories of offenses and types of penalties, students should refer to Policy 71 - Student Discipline, Grievance: A student who believes that a decision affecting some aspect of his/her university life has been unfair or unreasonable may have grounds for initiating a grievance. Read Policy 70 - Student Petitions and Grievances, Section 4, In addition, consult for the Faculty of Arts grievance processes. Appeals: A student may appeal the finding and/or penalty in a decision made under Policy 70 - Student Petitions and Grievances (other than regarding a petition) or Policy 71 - Student Discipline if a ground for an appeal can be established. Read Policy 72 - Student Appeals, Academic Integrity website (Arts): Academic Integrity Office (uwaterloo): Note for students with disabilities/learning differences: The AccessAbility Services (AS) Office, located in Needles Hall, Room 1132, collaborates with all academic departments to arrange appropriate accommodations for students with disabilities without compromising the academic integrity of the curriculum. If you require academic accommodations to lessen the impact of your disability, please register with the AS Office at the beginning of each academic term. Counselling Services: Counselling Services provides free confidential counselling, in both individual and group sessions, with qualified professionals to help registered students, faculty and staff with personal concerns, educational career decisions, and strategies to studies and exams. The UW Counselling Services web site is or call ext , NH Room 2080.

4 Music 332: Reading Assignments: (found in reading packet or online and on reserve at CGC library) Most of the readings are drawn from the following sources, with their abbreviated titles, unless otherwise indicated below: Contemplating Music: Contemplating Music: Source Readings in the Aesthetics of Music. 4 Vols. Selected and edited by Ruth Katz and Carl Dahlhaus. Stuyvesant, NY: Pendragon Press, CGC ML3845.C v.1-v.4 Music in the Western World: Music in the Western World: A History in Documents. Selected and annotated by Piero Weiss and Richard Taruskin. New York: Schirmer Books, CGC ML160.M Source Readings: Strunk, Oliver, ed. Source Readings in Music History. Rev. ed. Edited by Leo Treitler. New York: W.W. Norton Company, CGC ML160.S Online resources: not in packet available as links on Music 332 learn site or at the indicated links below. *** Antiquity: 1. Pythagoras and the Numerical Properties of Music, Music in the Western World, pp st Also available online: pages 9 (bottom of 1 column)-10 (different translation) Plato s Musical Idealism, Music in the Western World, Aristotle on the Purpose of Music, Music in the Western World, The Middle Ages: 4. The Transmission of the Classical Legacy [Boethius], Music in the Western World, Also available online: Ch.1 35 (different translation) 01_ITOW_Boethius.pdf 5. Music as a Liberal Art [Scholia enchiriadis], Music in the Western World, Renaissance: 6. Tinctoris, A New Way of Hearing Music : excerpt from Book on the Art of Counterpoint, from Source Readings in Music History, ed. Oliver Strunk (New York: Norton, 1950), Available online:

5 Renaissance (continued): 7. a) Glarean, Heinrich. Dodecachordon. Volume 1. Translated by Clement A. Miller. Musicological Studies and Documents, 6. N.p.: American Musicological Society, 1965, (Book 2, chapter 1-5). Available online: 7. b) Miller, Clement A. "Glarean, Heinrich." Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online. Oxford University Press, accessed December 30, 2012, Read paragraphs pos=1_start=1#firsthit Transition to the Baroque: 8. Giovanni Maria Artusi, On the Imperfections of Modern Music (1600) Claudio and Giulio Cesare Monteverdi, Scherzi musicali (1607). Available online: TOW_Artusi-Monteverdi.pdf Baroque: 9. The Mature Baroque: The Doctrine of the Affections [Descartes and Mattheson], Music in the Western World, Classical Aesthetics: 10. The Classical Period: A Side Trip into Aesthetics, Music in the Western World, Romanticism: 11. Andy Hamilton, The Aesthetics of Form, The Aesthetics of Expression and Absolute Music : Aesthetics of Music in the Late Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, in Aesthetics Music (London: Continuum, 2007), Early Twentieth Century: New Sounds A New Aesthetic: 12. Ferruccio Busoni, Sketch of a New Esthetic of Music. Translated by Th. Baker. New York: Schirmer, Available online: read pages 3-8, Luigi Russolo, The Art of Noise (Futurist Manifesto, 1913). Translated by Robert Filliou. N.p.: Ubu Classics, 2004, Available online: Edgard Varèse and Chou Wen-Chung, The Liberation of Sound. Perspectives of New Music 5, no.1 (1966): Available online:

6 The Second Viennese School: 15. Alban Berg, From Society for Private Music Performances in Vienna: A Statement of Aims, Source Readings, Anton von Webern, The Path to Twelve-Note Composition. In The Path to the New Music. Edited by Willi Reich. Translated by Leo Black. Bryn Mawr, PA: Theodore Presser Co., 1960, 7-8 (preface) Available online: Arnold Schoenberg, from Style and Idea, Contemplating Music, vol. 3, Adorno and Modernism: 18. Andy Hamilton, Adorno and Modernism: Music as Autonomous and Social Fact, in Aesthetics Music (London: Continuum, 2007), New Thoughts on Musical Expression: 19. S.K. Langer, From Philosophy in a New Key: On Significance in Music, Contemplating Music, vol. 3, Leonard B. Meyer, From Emotion and Meaning in Music, Contemplating Music, vol. 4, Postwar Directions and Debates: 21. John Cage, Experimental Music. In Silence. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1973), Available online: Pierre Boulez, Tendencies in Recent Music, Source Readings, Milton Babbitt, Who Cares if You Listen? High Fidelity 8, no. 2 (February, 1958): Available online: The New Musicology: 24. Leo Treitler, Introduction, Music and the Historical Imagination (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989), CGC ML3845.T Mark Evan Bonds, Introduction, After Beethoven: Imperatives of Originality in the Symphony (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996), 1-8. CGC ML1255.B Susan McClary, Introduction: A Material Girl in Bluebeard s Castle, Feminine Endings: Music, Gender, and Sexuality (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1991), CGC ML82.M

7 Date Topic Readings (above), Quizzes Due Dates T Jan 8 Th Jan 10 Introduction Classical Antiquity: The Foundation Pythagoras, Plato Aristotle 1-3 T Jan 15 Th Jan 17* The Middle Ages: Boethius Renaissance (a b) *Th Jan 17: quiz #1 due (on reading 1-7) T Jan 22* Th Jan 24 Transition to the Baroque The Baroque 8-9 *T Jan 22: quiz #2 due (on reading 8-9) T Jan 29* Th Jan 31 Classical Aesthetics Early Romanticism 10 11a (pp ) *T Jan 29: quiz #3 due (on reading 10-11a) T Feb 5* Th Feb 7** Late-Romantic Polemics: Schopenhauer, Wagner, Nietzsche Hanslick 11b (pp ) *T Feb 5: quiz #4 due (on reading 11b) **Feb 7: Essay proposal due T Feb 12* Th Feb 14* Early Twentieth Century: New Sounds A New Aesthetic The Second Viennese School *T Feb 12: quiz #5 due (on reading 12-17) *Th Feb 14: Reading Response #1 due (select from 1-11) *** Feb 18-22: Reading Week*** (no class) T Feb 26 Th Feb 28 Adorno Modernism 18 T Mar 5 Th Mar 7 T Mar 12* Th Mar 14 T Mar 19 Th Mar 21 T Mar 26 Th Mar 28 T Apr 2 Th Apr 4** New Thoughts on Musical Expression: Langer Meyer Postwar Directions Debates The New Musicology Wrap up *T Mar 12: Reading Response #2 due (select from 12-26) 3 Student presentations 3 Student presentations 3 Student 3 Student 3 Student 3 Student **April 4: Essays due

8 MUSIC 332 (Winter 2013) AESTHETICS OF MUSIC Class : Guidelines Suggestions Date: See sign-up sheet: Length: 15 minutes + up to 5 minutes for questions Subject Scope: The presentation is based on your research paper topic and should present the essential points of the essay. Grade Weight: 20% of final grade Grading Basis: 15%: presentation content organization (including staying within the time limit) delivery (including clarity, audibility, pace, communication) ability to engage class and generate questions comments 5%: handout* one 8 ½ x 11 page brief outline of presentation points include primary and secondary sources accurate spelling, grammar, and citation style (Chicago/Turabian) see music citation guide: * If I have an or hard copy of your handout by the day before your presentation, I can make copies. Otherwise, you will be responsible for making enough copies for the class. Visual Aids: If you want to use power point in your presentation, please bring a memory stick whether you are using a laptop or not and please let me know well in advance so that we can make sure that everything will work without delay in your presentation.

9 MUSIC 332 (WINTER 2013) AESTHETICS OF MUSIC Essay: Guidelines Suggestions Due: Grade Weight: Length: Subject Scope: Thursday, April 4, 2013, 11:30 am in class (hard copy) 20% of final grade +8% for proposal: due Thursday, February 7, 2013, 11:30 am in class +5% for essay revision: due Thursday, April 18, 2013 by 4:30pm 8-10 pages, double-spaced, typed, 12-point font, written in full sentences The essay should focus on the work of one music philosopher or a comparison between two. Your essay may focus on a single book, article, or chapter, or could involve a comparison between short works by two writers. You may want to bring in ideas from other disciplines in your essay (e.g., English Literature, Art History, Environmental Studies, Physics). You may want to compare aesthetic ideas in two different cultures. A good place to begin your research is the reserve shelf in the Conrad Grebel library: there are many excerpts of primary sources not covered in class in Contemplating Music, Source Readings in Music History, and Music in the Western World. A good place to look for secondary sources is The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, which is available online at If you have trouble deciding on a topic, I can make some suggestions. Grammar, Spelling: Up to 40% will be taken off for poor spelling, grammar or style. (See point #3 below) Academic Integrity: It is an academic offence to use material from another source (whether quoting or paraphrasing) without properly and accurately acknowledging and citing the source, even in an essay outline or proposal. Please see your course outline (p.3) for notes on Academic Integrity. You must fill out and submit the Academic Integrity Acknowledgement Form with your essay which will not be accepted without it. This is available for download from our course Learn site or from the following: edgementform.pdf Include the following in your essay: 1. Title page: include essay topic, your name, student number, course number, and date of submission. 2. Introduction Conclusion: Clearly state your essay thesis in a sentence or two in the introduction and summarize your main points in the conclusion. 3. Proper Grammar, Spelling and References: Carefully write your paper using proper punctuation, footnotes (or endnotes), references, and proper bibliographic format and punctuation. There are many citation styles to choose from. For the sake of consistency, please use the Chicago/Turabian style. Use the following citation guide: Do not quote from books, articles, internet sites, or any other written material without quotation marks and do not quote or paraphrase without proper and complete references. 4. Properly formatted bibliography. See point 3 above and citation guide:

10 Music 332: Aesthetics of Music (winter 2013) Essay Proposal, Outline Bibliography ***Due at 11:30 am in class Thurs Feb 7, 2013 / 8% of final grade See Essay Guidelines and Suggestions for more information Your name: Working title of essay: Topic: Featured writer(s) you will discuss in your essay: Title and full bibliographic information of featured work(s) in your essay (primary source or sources): ESSAY OUTLINE: PLEASE ATTACH A SEPARATE PAGE Include the headings of major sections of your essay Provide several bullets with the main points for each section Remember to cite sources in your outline as accurately and fully as you do in an essay BIBLIOGRAPHY: PLEASE ATTACH A SEPARATE PAGE Sources: The sources for your essay are meant to be detailed books or articles specific to your subject. Make sure that you use peer-reviewed articles and books (vetted by experts on the topic), especially if found online. Do not cite sources such as Wikipedia or general music history books (e.g., A History of Western Music or Understanding Music). Citing Sources: There are many citation styles to choose from. For the sake of consistency, please use the Chicago/Turabian style, by adhering to the following Music Citation Guide at Intellectual Integrity Academic Integrity Acknowledgement Form: It is an academic offence to use material from another source (whether quoting or paraphrasing) without properly and accurately acknowledging and citing the source, even in an essay outline or proposal. Please see your course outline (p.3) for notes on Academic Integrity. You must fill out and submit the Academic Integrity Acknowledgement Form with your essay proposal which will not be accepted without it. This is available for download from our course Learn site or from the following:

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