MUS3219H: The Composer as Philosopher

The course will examine the writings on the ontology, epistemology, ethics, and aesthetics of music by composer-philosophers and philosopher-composers. Beyond the study of the composers' published books and articles, we will also reference their public lectures, media interviews, private notes, and letters. Studied figures may include al-Kindi, Boethius, Peter Abelard, Hildegard von Bingen, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, ETA Hoffman, Hector Berlioz, Robert Schumann, Richard Wagner, Franz Liszt, Friedrich Nietzsche, Lalon Fakir, Ferruccio Busoni, Rabindranath Tagore, Theodore Adorno, Alexander Scriabin, Igor Stravinsky, Aaron Copland, John Cage, Virgil Thomson, Ned Rorem, Witold Lutosławski, Iannis Xenakis, Olivier Messiaen and George Lewis.

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0.50

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St. George

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In Class

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