音樂的十九世紀 

Music and The Nineteenth Century

 

授課教師:楊建章
開課學期:94/1
學分數:3

 

課程簡介及目的 Class Introduction and Objectives

 

本 課程探討音樂在十九世紀歐洲社會及文化的角色。內容包括與音樂相關的社會、歷史、及思想等議題,配合音樂文本的討論來了解音樂的文化意義。本課程子題包 括:音樂與浪漫主義、音樂與十九世紀哲學、民族主義、殖民主義、音樂與自然科學、猶太人與音樂、音樂與性別、音樂與現代性等。

 

This course discusses roles of music in the 19th-century European society. Topics include: music and Romanticism, music and philosophy in the 19th century, music and nationalism, music and colonialism, music and natural sciences, music and the Jewish question, music and gender, music and modernity. Students are expected to learn not only musical texts but also social and cultural contexts of 19th century European musical cultures.

 

上課要求與評量標準 Class Requirements

 

本課程為以教師講課與課堂討論相互配合;修課同學除了書面報告外,其餘評量標準根據學期間之討論與口頭報告表現。成績評量標準如下:

 

This course begins with introductory lectures in the first few weeks, then followed by more interactions between class members. In addition to a final paper, class participation and presentation are also regarded as essential components in evaluation.

 

一、課堂口頭報告 (class presentation)               20%

二、上課參與 (class participation)                      20%

三、學期報告 (final paper and presentation)      60%

1) 大學部:包含期中報告 20% 及期末報告 40%現。

2) 研究生:一較有份量的研究報告,包括期末的口頭呈現。

 

教材及參考用書 Texts and References

 

本課程無固定教材,基礎閱讀可參考:

 

There is no designated textbook for this course. Basic readings in nineteenth century European music include the following:

 

Einstein, Alfred. Music in the Romantic Era. New York: W. W. Norton, 1947. R

Dahlhaus, Carl. Nineteenth Century Music. Translated by J. Bradford Robinson Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. R

Rosen, Charles. The Romantic Generation. New York: W. W. Norton, 1984. R

Taruskin, Richard. The Oxford History of Western Music, vol. 3, The Nineteenth Century Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. R

Samson, Jim. The Cambridge History of Nineteenth-Century Music. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. R

 

其他參考及閱讀材料另列。

 

課程大綱 Meeting Schedule

 

UNIT ONE: History of 19th-Century Music Now and Then

 

第一週 23.02.2006):Course Introduction

 

第二週 (02.03.2006): Musikanschauung in the 19th century

Readings: Einstein, 20–36; Hanslick, On the Musically Beautiful; Ambros, "On the Boundary between Poetry and Music" (Optional: Wagner, Opera and Drama)

 

第三週 09.03.2006 ):Beethoven and the heroic music history

Readings: Dahlhaus, 81–88; Wagner, "Beethoven"; Goehr, "The Beethoven Paradigm" (Optional: Knittel, "The Construction of Beethoven")

 

第四週 16.03.2006 :浪漫主義與觀念主義 (Romanticism and Idealism—Schumann)

Readings: Wackenroder, "The Remarkable Musical Life of the Musician Joseph Belinger"; Rosen, "Fragments," 41–78 (Optional: Hoeckner, "Schumann's Distance")

 

第五週 23.03.2006):音樂與身分認同 (Music and Identity—Schubert)

Readings: McClary, "Sexual Politics in Classical Music"; Kramer, "Hermaid Fancis" (Optional: Solie, "Whose Life")

 

UNIT TWO: Music and Society

 

第六週 30.03.2006):音樂與中產階級 (Biedermeier Music, Schubert)

Readings: Dahlhaus, 160–168, 178–190; Steinberg, "Canny and Uncanny Histories in Biedermeier Music " (Optional: Ringer, "The Rise of Urban Musical Life")

 

第七週 06.04.2006):Music and Its Institutions (Liszt, Berlioz)

Readings: Taruskin, "Critics"; Kramer, "Franz Liszt and Virtuoso Public Sphere"

 

第八週 13.04.2006 ):音樂與自然 (Music and nature—Weber)

Readings: Taruskin, 187–205; Spencer, "The Origin and Function of Music"; Helmholtz, On the Sensation of Tones (Optional: Hauptmann, The Nature of Harmonic and Metric)

 

UNIT THREE: Music and Nations

 

第九週 20.04.2006 ):音樂的民族性與民族主義 (Nationality in music and musical nationalism—Chopin)

Readings: Applegate & Potter, "Germans as the ‘People of Music’"; Taruskin, 343–376 (Optional: Taruskin, "Slavs as Subjects and Citizens")

 

第十週 27.04.2006 ):The Jewish Question (Mendelssohn)

Readings: Sposato, "Moses"; Wagner, "Jewishness in Music" (Optional: s

 

第十一週 04.05.2006 :東方主義、殖民主義、異國情調 (Orientalism, Colonialism and Exoticism—Puccini)

Readings: Stumpf+Wallascheck, selections; 羅基敏,<由童話到歌劇> (Optional: Bellman, "The Hungarian Gypsies and the Poetics of Exclusion")

 

第四單元:The Case of Wagner and the Problem of Modernity

 

第十二週 11.05.2006 ):Parsifal

Screenings: 本週觀賞華格納之《帕西法爾》或《唐懷瑟》,時間另定

 

第十三週 18.05.2006): Wagner's Cultural Politics (Tannhäuser)

Readings: Rosen, "Opera"; Baudelaire, "Richard Wagner et Tannhäuser à Paris"; (Optional: Mann: "Sufferings and Greatness of Richard Wagner")

 

第十四週 25.05.2006 The Case of Wagner (Parsifal)

Readings: Borchmeyer, "Redemption and Apocatastasis"; Nietzsche, "Nietzsche contra Wagner" (Optional: Abbate, In Search of Opera)

 

第十五週 (01.06.2006): The Invention of Tradition (Brahms)

Readings: Dahlhaus, 252–261; Frisch, Brahms and the Principle of  Developing Variations (Optional: Hatten, "The Expressive Role of Disjunction")

 

第十六週 08.06.2006 ):現代主義 (Modernism—Mahler, Schönberg)

Readings: Banks, "Fin-de-siècle Vienna"; De la Grange, "Music about Music in Mahler" (Optional: Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction")

 

第十七週 (15.06.2006): Writing week

 

第十八週 (22.06.2006): Students' Reports

 

閱讀材料 Reading and Listening Materials

 

2.1 Einstein, Alfred. Music in the Romantic Era, 20–36.

2.2 Hanslick, Eduard,《論音樂美》,(台北:世界文物,1997chpt. 1–3.

2.3 Ambros, Wilhelm. "On the Boundary between Poetry and Music," selection.

(2.4) Wagner, Richard. Opera and Drama, selection.

3.1 Wagner, "Beethoven", selection.

3.2 Goehr, Lydia. "After 1800: The Beethoven Paradigm," in The Imaginary Museum of Musical Works: An Essay in the Philosophy of Music (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992).

(3.3) Knittel, K. M. "The Construction of Beethoven," in The Cambridge History of Nineteenth-Century Music.

4.1 Wackenroder, Wilhelm. "The Remarkable Life of the Musician Joseph Belinger," selection.

4.2 Rosen, Charles. "Fragments," 41–78, in The Romantic Generation.

(4.3) Hoeckner, Berthold. "Distance in Schumann," in Hoeckner, Programming the Absolute: Nineteenth-Century German Music and the Hermeneutics of the Moment (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002).

5.1 McClary, Susan,<古典音樂的性政治>,in《陰性終止》(台北:商周,2003

5.2 Kramer, Lawrence."Mermaid Facnies," in Franz Schubert: Sexuality, Subjectivity, Song

(5.3) Solie, Ruth, "Whose Life? The Gendered Self in Schumann’s Frauenliebe Songs." In Music and Text: Critical Inquiries, edited by Steven Paul Scher, 219–40 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992).

6.1 Dahlhaus, Carl. Nineteenth Century Music, 160–168; 178–190

6.2 Steinberg, Michael, "Canny and Uncanny Histories in Biedermeier Music," in Listening to Reason: Culture, Subjectivity, and Nineteenth-Century Music (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004)

(6.3) Ringer, Alexander. "The Rise of Urban Musical Life," in Early Romantic Era (London: Macmilan, 1993)

7.1 Taruskin, Richard. "Critics," in Oxford History

7.2 Kramer, Lawrence. "Franz Liszt and Virtuoso Public Spheres," in Kramer,

8.1 Taruskin, Richard. "Nations, States, and Peoples," in Oxford History, 187–205.

8.2 Spencer, Herbert. "The Origin and Function of Music," selection.

8.3 Helmholtz, Hermann. On the Sensation of Tones, selection.

(8.4) Hauptmann, Moritz. "The Nature of Harmonic and Metric"

9.1 Applegate, Celia and Potter, Pamela. "Germans as the ‘People’ of Music: Geneology of an Identity." In Music and German National Identity, edited by Celia Applegate and Pamela Potter, 1–35. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002).

9.2 Taruskin, "Self and Other," in Oxford History, 343–376

(9.3) Taruskin, "Slavs as Subjects and Citizens," Oxford History, 443–478

10.1 Sposato, Jeffrey. "Moses," in The Price of Assimilation: Felix Mendelssohn and the Nineteenth-Century Anti-Semetic Tradition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006)

10.2 Wagner, Richard. "Jewishness in Music"

(10.3) Ringer, Alexander. Arnold Schoenberg: The Composer as Jew (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990)

11.1 Stumpf, Carl. The Origin of Music; Wallaschek, Primitive Music, selections.

11.2 羅基敏,<從童話到歌劇:「杜蘭朵」與十九世紀的《杜蘭朵》歌劇>,《文話/文化音樂》(台北:高談,1999)。

(11.3) Bellman, Jonathan, "The Hungarian Gypsies and the Poetics of Exclusion," in The Exotic in Western Music (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1998)

13.1 Rosen, Charles, "Opera," in The Romantic Generation

13.2 Baudelaire, Charles, "Richard Wagner et Tannhäuser à Paris," selections.

(13.3) Mann, Thomas. "Sufferings and Greatness of Richard Wagner."

14.1 Borchmeyer, Dieter, "Redemption and Apocatastasis," in Drama and the World of Richard Wagner (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003)

14.2 Nietzsche, Friedrich. "Nietzsche contra Wagner"

(14.3) Abbate, Carolyn. In Search of Opera (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001)

15.1 Dahlhaus, Carl, Nineteenth-Century Music, 252–261.

15.2 Frisch, Walter. Brahms and the Principle of Developing Variations (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984)

(15.3) Hatten, Robert. "The Expressive Role of Disjunction"

16.1 Banks, Paul. "Fin-de-siècle Vienna," in The Late Romantic Era (London: Macmillan, 1991)

16.2 De la Grange, "Music about Music in Mahler," in Mahler Studies (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997)

(16.3) Benjamin, Walter. "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," in Illuminations (New York: Schoken, 1969)

 

Week 3 Beethoven: Symphony No. 9

Week 4 Schumann: Dichterliebe

Week 5 Schubert: "Trout"; Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4

Week 6 Schubert: Symphony No. 9 in C Major

Week 7 Liszt: Sonata for Piano in B Minor

Week 8 Weber: Freischütz; Oberon

Week 9 Chopin: Ballades

Week 10 Mendelssohn: "Moses"

Week 11 Puccini: Turandot

Week 13 Wagner: Tanhäuser

Week 14 Wagner: Parsifal

Week 15 Brahms: Quartets

Week 16 Mahler: Symphnies