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Introduction to aesthetics and analysis: essential and non-essential questions Module aims  To develop skills in the advanced analysis of music  To get the tools to make intelligent acute observations about arguably 'simple' music  To enhance the capacity to engage with substantial and arguably 'difficult' musical works  To grow an articulate awareness of key aesthetic themes in musicology  To practice discourse in philosophical aesthetics

Assignment 1: Analysis (30%) Tuesday 1st November 2016 Assignment 2: Precis (10%) Thursday 8th December 2016 Assignment 3: Essay (60%) Wednesday 11th January 2017 Speculative (why are we here? Questions and open up discussions it can’t answer the question but help with the knowledge of the question and understanding the question more) vs empirical (actual data states and ratios) aesthetics Aristotle ‘the what is was to be’ / ‘the what it is’ Essences vs Accidents I have a heart and will die that’s what you have to have to be a human and that’s the essence. Accidents are you living in Liverpool that doesn’t make you a human.

Live classical orchestra Essential Group of instruments Playing classical instrumentals brass, strings percussion Should be able to playing music Accidental Instrumentation Audience The amount of sections Conductor Layout Seats or music stands Are we talking about the music and artwork or just our self’s and out own expression? McTighe, J. and Wiggins, G. (2013) Essential questions opening doors to student understanding (chapter 1 read) Essential questions – how do the arts shape as well as reflect a culture? Essential questions 1. Open-ended, typically no single answer 2. Is through-provoking and intellectually engaging often sparking discussion and debate 3. Calls for higher order thinking such as analysis inference, evaluation and prediction. 4. Points towards important transferable ideas within 5. Raises additional questions and sparks further enquiry 6. Requires support and justification not just an answer 7. Recurs over time, the question can and should be revisited again and again

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Heinrich Schenker Heinrich Schenker was a composer, pianist, music critic, music teacher, and music theorist, best known for his approach to musical analysis, now usually called Schenkerian analysis. What is good music? – there is lots of criteria’s for music...