Aesthetics in Graduate Music Schools : Bringing Philosophy to the Learning of Music

ISBN-13: 9783639123272 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 132 str.

Chaden Yafi

Opis

This study examines the possibility of offering a course in aesthetics in graduate music schools for performance major students.While the training of musicians traditionally embraces three curricular domains:applied music,music history and music theory,this study proposes adding a fourth domain to these means of acquiring artistic knowledge.i.e. philosophy.The study presents a discussion of the role of aesthetic education in training future musicians.It aspires to promote more serious attention,in the higher education music world,to aesthetic issues such as searching for meaning in music,examining interrelationships among various art forms,contemplating the role of art in the society,detecting the nuances of aesthetic categories and exploring symbolism and mysticism in music.The study offers seven lectures intended for use in a course in aesthetics.Although the study does not purport to cover all issues encompassed in the field of aesthetics,it presents a comprehensive introductory document to the field of aesthetics designed for music students, holding,as primary goal, an argument against the notion of music as an autonomous phenomenon.

O autorze

Dr.Chaden Yafi, pianist: Earned the Doctor of Musical Arts
degree from Boston University s College of Fine Arts where she
was a recipient of the Dean s Award Scholarship. A former
faculty member at Tufts University and Brookline School of Music
in Boston, she is currently Artist-in-Residence at the Opera
House in Damascus, Syria.