History of Western Music
Objectives
a) To acquire and develop highlevel methodological and conceptual competencies in the field of History of
Western Music;
b) To gain indepth knowledge about the main issues, movements, institutions and musical genres in the
relevant historical period;
c) To acquire the ability to contextualize and problematize musical phenomena from the historical, aesthetic, sociological and cultural points of view;
d) To gain indepth knowledge about the musical and musictheatrical
repertoire in the relevant period;
e) To master the current methodologies of research from an interdisciplinary point of view, and to develop
presentation and communication skills according to academic standards.
General characterization
Code
722021037
Credits
10.0
Responsible teacher
Paula Cristina Roberto Gomes Ribeiro Brandão
Hours
Weekly - 3
Total - 280
Teaching language
Portuguese
Prerequisites
Not applicable
Bibliography
Bergeron, Katherine e Philip Bohlman. 1992. Disciplining music, musicology and its canons. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press.
Brett, Philip, Elizabeth Wood e Gary C. Thomas. eds. 1994. Queering the pitch: the new gay and lesbian musicology. Routledge.
Cook, Nicholas e Mark Everist. eds. 1999. Rethinking music. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Cook, Nicholas & Antony Pople. Eds. 2004. The Cambridge history of twentieth-century music.
Cage, John. 1961. Silence. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press.
Citron, Marcia. 1993. Gender and the musical canon. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press.
Drolet, Michael. 2003. The postmodernism reader, foundational texts. London: Routledge.
Guilbert, Georges Claude. 2002. Madonna as postmodern myth. How one star's self-construction rewrites sex, gender, Hollywood and the american dream. Jefferson: McFarland & Company.
Jenkins, Keith. 1997. The postmodern history reader. London: Routledge
Kerman, Joseph. 1985. Contemplating music: challenges to musicology. Harvard: Harvard University Press.
Kramer, Lawrence. 1996. Classical music and postmodern knowledge. Berkeley: University of California Press.
McClary, Susan. 2002. Feminine endings. Music, gender and sexuality. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 2nd ed.
Pasler, Jann. 2008. Writing through music. Essays on music, culture, and politics. Oxford. Oxford University Press.
Solie, Ruth. Ed.. (1993). Musicology and difference: gender and sexuality in music scholarship. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Subotnik, Rose Rosengard. 1991. Developing variations: style and ideology in western music. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Taruskin, Richard. 2010. Music in the late twentieth century. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Teaching method
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Evaluation method
Métodos de avaliação - Assessment is based on the quality of the oral presentations and the participation in group discussions (30%)(60%), at least one extended essay, whenever possible about a topic of particular relevance to the students future dissertation project or research area (70%)(40%)
Subject matter
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