Harmonic convergence
Den här kursen skulle jag vilja ta.
"Harmonic Convergence: Music's Intersection with Science, Mathematics, History and Literature (MUSC 0510)
Instructor: Paul Phillips
An investigation into music's relationship to science, mathematics, history and literature. Students will examine connections between music and the brain; parallels between Bach's music and Gödel's Theorem, Kepler's advances in mathematics and astronomy, and modern DNA research; the creative process of music composition; and the application of musical form to literature.
Students will read fiction in which music occupies an essential role, studying compositions by Mozart, Beethoven, Shostakovich and Schoenberg associated with those novels, plus related works by Debussy, Schumann, Brahms, Wolf, Hindemith and others. Principal readings are by Sachs (Musicophilia), Levitin (The World in Six Songs), Hofstadter (Gödel, Escher, Bach), Rothstein (Emblems of Mind), Powers (The Gold Bug Variations), Mörike (Mozart's Journey to Prague), Burgess (A Clockwork Orange, Honey for the Bears) and Mann (Doctor Faustus). "
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