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Aesthetics/Philosophy of Music

Aesthetics/Philosophy of Music. L. K. Kam. From the Harvard Dictionary of Music. Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (1714–62). Aesthetica (1750)

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Aesthetics/Philosophy of Music

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  1. Aesthetics/Philosophy of Music L. K. Kam

  2. From the Harvard Dictionary of Music

  3. Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (1714–62) • Aesthetica (1750) • German philosopher and educator who coined the term aesthetics (Greek aisthesis for perception) in 1735 and established this discipline as a distinct field of philosophical inquiry.

  4. A. G. Baumgarten • Rationalist background, yet argued that poetic insights are also concrete knowledge, in which a content is communicated only perceptually (aesthetically). • his “aesthetics” deals only in part the problems of beauty, but mainly sensory, perceptual knowledge (inferior faculty). Thus aesthetics together with logic (superior faculty) constituted his theory of knowledge. • superior: logic • inferior: aesthetic

  5. Philosophy of Music: not yet • Plato (~BC 428–348) • Music (and visual arts) not as ars, but as techne (craft), the craft of representation (mimesis) • Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) • Music as merely a beautiful play of sensations without cognitive value, therefore music is the lowest form of art. ;-< • Kritik der Urteilskraft (1790)

  6. I. Kant (1724–1804) • German philosopher whose comprehensive and systematic work in the theory of knowledge, ethics, and aesthetics greatly influenced all subsequent philosophy, especially the various schools of Kantianism and Idealism.

  7. I. Kant (1724–1804) • The foremost thinker of the Enlightenment and one of the greatest philosophers of all time, in him were subsumed new trends that had begun with the Rationalism of René Descartes and the Empiricism of Francis Bacon. He thus inaugurated a new era in the development of philosophical thought.

  8. Philosophy of Music • From craft to art through theorizing: History, Musicology, e.g., • Charles Burney: A General History of Music from the Earliest Ages to the Present Period (1776–1789) • Guido Adler: “Scope, Method and Goals of Musicology” (1885)

  9. Philosophy of Muisc • The development of musicology in the 20th century established the relatedness of music with other human practices that lie at the heart of our consciousness, thus raises music to a status worthy of a philosophy.

  10. Discussion • The study of musical beauty (音樂的美), aesthetics of music (音樂美學), or philosophy of music? • Why music as the lowest form among the fine arts? • Why philosophy of music only since the 20th century?

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