MUMH 5200 "Reception History: Interpreting Responses of Critics, Composers, and Audiences"
Margaret Notley
Fall 2001
The aesthetics of reception is a framework for the study of the arts that emerged in the late 1960s, one aspect of the transformation in philosophical and critical thought taking place at that time. This course will address questions raised by the approach primarily by focusing on concrete examples of its use in recent musicological writing. A larger goal will be to encourage students to think critically about how they carry out their own work.