Knowledge of and insight into several musico-historical and musico-theoretical methods of research of recent decades as have been applied to art music of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in particular; practicing academic reading and writing skills; reflecting on these skills.
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This course is part of the deepening package ‘Historical musicology’. The name of the course makes reference to ‘history’ both in the sense of ‘res gestae’ (the past) and in the sense of ‘historia rerum gestarum’ (historiography). The adjective ‘contemporary’ in its name, then, refers to either the music to be studied in this course (primarily art music of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries), or to the methods that are used to do so (methods ranging from hermeneutics to dodecaphonic theory). Participating students will obtain knowledge of and insight into all of this by means of ten case studies, for which they will both read and provide comments on several musicological publications as well as make a few musical analyses.
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