Why Mahler's music and fin-de-siecle Vienna remain central events in the birth of modern culture? Taking Mahler's Symphonies No. 8-10 and _The Song of the Earth_ as examples, we want to listen and understand their meanings in the context of Viennese modernism. Though regarded as a cultural conservative by contemporaries, there are aspects of innovation, rebellion and resistance in Mahler's music to be discovered by later critics like Adorno.
Lectures will be complemented by multimedia presentations, with the course home page at CEIBA providing a platform for information and interaction. There’ll be weekly listening, reading or writing assignments, as well as a group project to foster peer discussion and critical thinking. Course materials are in English, but lecture mainly in Mandarin.
「本課程為臺灣大學共同教育中心個別型通識教育改進計畫補助計畫」