Universität Wien

070194 SE Reserach seminar - An Empire of Music (2020S)

Musical Modernism in the late Habsburg Empire and its Successor States

8.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 7 - Geschichte
Continuous assessment of course work

Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 25 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Tuesday 17.03. 16:00 - 17:30 Hörsaal des Instituts für Osteuropäische Geschichte UniCampus Hof 3 2R-EG-07 (Kickoff Class)
  • Tuesday 21.04. 16:00 - 17:30 Hörsaal des Instituts für Osteuropäische Geschichte UniCampus Hof 3 2R-EG-07 (Kickoff Class)
  • Tuesday 16.06. 16:00 - 17:30 Hörsaal des Instituts für Osteuropäische Geschichte UniCampus Hof 3 2R-EG-07 (Kickoff Class)
  • Monday 21.09. 09:30 - 16:00 Seminarraum des Instituts für Osteuropäische Geschichte UniCampus Hof 3 2Q-EG-27
  • Tuesday 22.09. 09:30 - 16:00 Seminarraum des Instituts für Osteuropäische Geschichte UniCampus Hof 3 2Q-EG-27
  • Wednesday 23.09. 09:30 - 16:00 Seminarraum des Instituts für Osteuropäische Geschichte UniCampus Hof 3 2Q-EG-27

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

The interdisciplinary Master Seminar deals with modern music in the late Habsburg Empire (1780-1918). The seminar will at first explore the cultural and social foundations of the Viennese Classic. We will then discuss how the "musical empire" developed in the 19th century. Students can focus on high brow music, but are also welcome to use popular music.
Finally, the seminar will compare the better known Second Viennese School around Arnold Schönberg with musical modernism in Prague, which was focused more on ethno-musicological interests.
The seminar uses the concept of blended learning. After the selection of research topics in the first session students will write small exposes to prepare their presentations in the blocked seminar in late September. You can use the oral presentations as a basis for the written seminar paper.

Assessment and permitted materials

Reading of the literature provided in the syllabus
Submission of an expose during the blended learning.
Uninterrupted presence during the block seminar
Oral presentation
Written seminar paper (ca. 20 pages, which be written in English, Italian, Czech or Polish as well)

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Well founded, innovative and source based combination of history & muic

Examination topics

Reading list

Daniel Morat, Zur Geschichte des Hörens. Ein Forschungsbericht, in: Archiv für Sozialgeschichte 51 (2011), 695-716.
Carl Schorske, Wien. Geist und Gesellschaft im Fin de Siècle, Frankfurt a.M.: S. Fischer Verlag, 1982, 305-346.
Peter Burke, What is Cultural History, Cambridge: Polity Press, 2004, 1-5, 100-126.
Moritz Csáky, Die Ideologie der Operette und Wiener Moderne: ein kulturhistorischer Essay, Wien: Böhlau, 1998², 62-108.
Derek B. Scott, Sounds of the Metropolis: The Nineteenth-Century Popular Music Revolution in London, New York, Paris and Vienna (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008), 39-48; 131-137.
Derek Sayer, The Coasts of Bohemia. A Czech History, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998 (Auszüge).
Scott Spector, Prague Territories. National Conflict and Cultural Innovation in Franz Kafka´s Fin de Siécle, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000 (Auszüge).
Zdenka Janáčková, My Life with Janáček. The Memoirs of Zdenka Janáčková. Edited and translated by John Tyrrell, London: Faber & Faber, 2003 (Auszüge).
Alois Hába, Mein Weg zur Viertel- und Sechsteltonmusik, München: Filmkunst Musikverlag, 1986.

Association in the course directory

MA Geschichte (2014 und 2019): Osteuropäische Geschichte, Neuzeit, Zeitgeschichte, Frauen- und Geschlechtergeschichte, Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte, Historisch-Kulturwissenschaftliche Europaforschung, Österreichische Geschichte
IMA Osteuropastudien (2014 und 2019): M3.1, M4

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