音樂、視覺、幻覺
Between sight and sound: illusion and music
| 節 | 週二 |
|---|---|
2 09:00–09:50 | 音樂、視覺、幻覺 HC514 3 節連堂 |
3 10:10–11:00 | |
4 11:10–12:00 |
* 根據陽明交大上課時間表所列
This course explores visual perception and the use of optical illusion, in particular, in conjunction with special timbre and sound effects in music. Most examples derive from 19th -century works, including writings in philosophy, science, literature, fine arts, and magic. We will see how a tighter connection between sight and sound in Romantic music related to developments in contemporary arts and science. We will discuss how an increasingly suspicious approach to vision’s credibility brought about a blurred distinction between illusion and truth and consequently, how this elevated the status of listening and likely contributed to a changing culture of listening. The first half of the semester will focus on developments in optical science, industry, and technology hand in hand with a changing interpretation of senses and the invention of optical gadgets and devices. The second half of the semester will devote to a series of case studies that reflect how the idea of optical illusion was possibly “translated” into the use of offstage sound in both instrumental music and operas.
This course is designed primarily for graduate music majors. Non-music majors are recommended to sit in week 1's class session and discuss with the course instructor before deciding whether enrolling in this course would be feasible.
attendance & participation: 25% midterm report (reading): 35% term project (precis & presentation & paper): 40%
| 週次 | 主題 |
|---|---|
| 第 1 週 | Introduction & overview: what the eye sees and misses |
| 第 2 週 | What the scientists saw: optical science and illusion |
| 第 3 週 | What the philosophers saw: Goethe and Schopenhauer’s color studies; Schumann, Frauenliebe- und -leben #1 |
| 第 4 週 | Seeing through the machine in theater: optical devices that create illusion; magic lantern (phantasmagoria) |
| 第 5 週 | Blurred sight and “fake” sound in literature: E. T. A. Hoffmann’s novellas |
| 第 6 週 | The wonder of seeing through a glass house: the Crystal Palace and the Great Exhibition |
| 第 7 週 | The “ghost”: illusion, public entertainment, and the Pepper’s Ghost |
| 第 8 週 | Magicians, conjurors, and illusionists: the case of Robert-Houdin |
| 第 9 週 | Individual appointment re: term project |
| 第 10 週 | Paintings with shadows alone: the silhouette paintings in France |
| 第 11 週 | Listening without seeing: the theatrophone and the culture of listening in late Romantic era |
| 第 12 週 | Bodiless sound: offstage sound in Romantic music |
| 第 13 週 | Invisible sounds: Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique, Liszt’s Hunnenschlacht, and Verdi’s Il trovatore |
| 第 14 週 | The devils and ghostly voices: Offenbach’s tales in Les contes d’Hoffmann |
| 第 15 週 | Sound without sight and mental disorder: offstage sound in Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor |
| 第 16 週 | Immaterial yet audible: fairies and illusions in Strauss’s Die Frau ohne Schatten |
| 第 17 週 | Hallucination, illusion, and psychoanalysis: Schoenberg’s Erwartung |
| 第 18 週 | Presentation of term projects |
readings will be posted on the course website
- 地點
- HSS. 3 Bldg. #511
- 時間
- TBA
- 聯絡方式
- blblume@nctu.edu.tw; ext 58316