HONR 480 01

AT THE HEART OF TIME

FALL 2020

TENTATIVE COURSE SCHEDULE

9-15 Practical Matters/Overview (OI & SL)--Being in Time. Time Tenses. What time is real and what is time lived? (OI & SL)

9-22 Philosophical Theories of Time (SL) (BARDON--pgs. 1-27)

9-29 Time, Music, and Human Experience (OI) (Tallis--chapters 2,7 excerpt handout, Nietzsche Gay Science, Aphorism 341 handout, experiential assignment) Beginnings, present time. Structures of time in music. Rhetoric and Bach. Past and Future. Repetition and recurrence, cyclical form. Memory and nostalgia.

10- TOPIC 1--P1 (Bardon--pgs. 28-49) (Tallis chapter 9 excerpt handout, Kundera, Unbearable Lightness of Being chapter 1 handout, music listening and observation assignment) -Time and Transcendence. Eternal time. Late Beethoven. Introducing Zeitgeist.

10-13 TOPIC 2--P2 (Bardon--pgs. 50-78) (Kundera, The Joke, chapter 8 excerpt handout, music assignment) --Punctures and continuity. Passage of time. The Beat in the Heart of Time. "Living in a Pause" REFLECTION #1

10-20 TOPIC 3--P3 (Bardon--pgs. 79-111) (Nestruk Meditation on Boredom handout, music experiential assignment) --On passing time and boredom and What is Moment, Instance? Stretching time in music. Gesture. Silence in music.

10-27 TOPIC 4--P4 (Bardon--pgs. 112-137) (observation/listening assignment) --Wondering in time. Killing time and Finding time. Deficit and excess.

11-3 TOPIC 5--P5 (Bardon--pgs. 138-152) (Tallis chapter 10 handout, listening/film assignment) Time organized and time improvised.

11-10 TOPIC 6--P6 (Bardon--pgs. 153-172), music workshop in preparation for Zeitgeist presentations--The fabric of modern time. “The noise of time”--dynamics of repetition and change REFLECTION #2

11-17 TOPIC 7--P7 (Bardon--pgs. 173-178), Zeitgeist in-class music/multimedia showcase

11-24 Final Presentations (5 x 20 minutes each)

12-1 Final Presentations (5 x 20 minutes each)

12-8 Final Presentations (5 x 20 minutes each)

12-15 LAST CLASS DAY!! Final Presentations (5 x 20 minutes each)