Learning Outcomes
Through this course, students are expected to:
* Develop a personal understanding and critical appreciation of the changes brought onto musical life, and onto music's relationship with everyday life, during the 20th century
• Familiarise themselves with a broad spectrum of repertoire from the last 100+ years
• Broaden their general knowledge and appreciation of knowledge fields that are related to music, including fine arts, literature, social history and philosophy
• Develop basic skills for individual study and research, as well as for group discussion on key topics
Course Content (Syllabus)
The course examines the heterogeneous musical heritage of the 20th century, in conjunction with key geographical, sociopolitical, aesthetic and scientific shifts that took place during the last 130 years.
COURSE OUTLINE
1. INTRODUCTION: 1889
2. LEAVING TONALITY (VIENNA, 1899-1923)
3. AMONG THE ARTS (ST. PETERSBURG, PARIS, MILAN, ZURICH, 1909-1929)
4. BETWEEN TWO WARS: POPULAR MUSIC AND "FORBIDDEN" ARTS (1919-1939)
5. "NEW MUSIC" AND YOUTH MUSIC (1945-1960)
6. "TOWARDS THEATRE": MIXED MEDIA AND CONCEPTUAL ART (1960-1975)
7. SIMPLICITY / COMPLEXITY / PLURALISM (1965-1989)
8. THE MUSIC INDUSTRY AND MUSIC HISTORY'S "OTHERS"
Course Bibliography (Eudoxus)
P. Griffiths, Μοντέρνα Μουσική (Αθήνα: Zαχαρόπουλος, 1993). Κωδικός: 3907
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Ε. Ηοbsbawm, H εποχή των αυτοκρατοριών, 1875-1914 (Αθήνα: Mορφωτικό Ίδρυμα Εθνικής Τραπέζης, 2007). Κωδικός: 43931
Additional bibliography for study
• Λήμμα «Modernism» στην εγκυκλοπαίδεια Grove Music Online
• P. Griffiths, Μοντέρνα Μουσική (Ζαχαρόπουλος, 1993), σ. 29-236
• E. Salzman, Εισαγωγή στη μουσική του 20ού αιώνα (Νεφέλη, 1983), σ. 7-134 & 151-179
• E. Hobsbawm, H εποχή των αυτοκρατοριών, 1875-1914 (Μορφωτικό Ίδρυμα Εθνικής Τραπέζης, 2000) – ιδιαίτερα Κεφ.9, «Οι τέχνες μεταμορφώνονται», σ. 339-374
• Ε. Hobsbawm, Η εποχή των άκρων: ο σύντομος 20ός αιώνας, 1914-1990 (Θεμέλιο, 2006) – ιδιαίτερα Κεφ. 6, «Οι τέχνες 1914-1945», σ.231-257
• N. Cook & A. Pople (eds.), The Cambridge History of 20th-Century Music (C.U.P., 2004), σ.1-303)
• Μ. Bradbury & J. McFarlane, Modernism: A guide to European Literature, 1890-1930 (Penguin, 1991)
• C. Butler, Early Modernism: Literature, Music and Painting in Europe, 1900 – 1916 (Clarendon Press, 1994)