Seminar on German Music at Xiamen University

Thoughts, Concepts and Appreciation

This course is designed to train general knowledge about Germany via basic types and styles of German music. Through analysing its masterpieces and related texts, students will gain an initial understanding of German high arts and culture and will have the opportunity to practice the use of special art related vocabulary in order enhance their skill to reason about this topic. Not only will their command of German increase but their horizon regarding German culture will be widened as well, enabling students to identify major streams of German art and understand their impact on literature, philosophy , aesthetics and related aspects.