Phenomenology of Love in Music

Love is everywhere - it has been the key concept literally in all religious and philosophical doctrines from the ancient times until nowadays. The bond between god and human (Plato), a genuine reason for Christ's coming, and so forth, love have analogously been the essence and the core in music works of all times, wrapped in different philosophies, faiths, political, social and cultural contexts, reflecting on the Weltanschauung of music creators and its entrepreneurs.

The compositions of Handel and Monteverdi, Beethoven and Schubert, or Jimmy Hendrix and The Beatles would represent wide-ranging visions of love implanted in their individual music styles and aesthetics - from Enlightenment and Romanticism to posthumanism and hippy culture (that are studied by methodology of evolutionary musicology). The course therefore constructs a survey accomplishing the many phenomenological faces of love in music, enabling students to discuss and study the chosen topics and examples within selected scholarly framework and areas of specialization. The course thusly is open to everyone interested in music and its representation of love seen through cultural, philosophical, or psycho-analytical lenses.