2017 - 2018 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
0845-4134-01 | Music, Death and the Passage of Time | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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FACULTY OF VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The course deals with music’s unique position in expressing the inevitable passage of time and the fear of death. The course focuses on the following themes: temporality and structure, arrest of time in technology, representaions of death, philosophy of music on transience and mortality.