HPS 2880 - HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF MUSICAL SCIENCE

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This seminar explores historical and philosophical questions concerning music as a form of knowledge in the history of Western civilization (with some ethno-musicological excursuses relatively beyond). These questions include (but are not limited to): The emergence of music theory in antiquity; the role of music in the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century; the relation between music as a science and musical aesthetics; music and mathematics; music and cognition in humans and animals; the foundations of modern psychoacoustics; the nature of harmony. We will engage in both theoretical and empirical inquiry and design experiments in the domain of sound and music perception and esthetics
Academic Career: Graduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Grad LG/SNC Basis

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