Musical and Rhythmical Education 1

Tutor:

Tomáš KOLAFA

Synopsis:

The characteristic feature of the course is its musical and predominant various activities. This course stems from the active mastery or activation of the fundaments of music teaching through choral singing and instrument playing.

Prerequisites:

sense of rhythm, elementary disposition to music, active approach, desire to experiment.

Study Objectives:

The basic aim of the course is, at a theoretical level, an orientation in the fundamentals of music education and a general historical overview of the development of music. From a position of skill the students master, at the elementary form, playing recorder and using their playing abilities on other instruments and singing in choir. The work with the students is completed with an independent musical skill work, mastery of music theory, playing the recorder, singing of folk songs from the area of their origin and a general music overview.

Outline and Syllabus:

1. Basic music concepts.

Sound, tone, tone characteristics, tone systems, tuning systems, The Italian music terminology.

2. Notation

A historical look at the development of notation, notation basics, key, measure, accidentals, notes, rests, key signatures, repeats, terminology, lyric notation, multi-stave recording - scores.

3. Scales

Definition.

Church scales, major, minor, chromatic, whole-tone, pentatonic, gypsy intonation, playing of scales.

4. Intervals

Definition.

Upper and lower intervals, basic and derivations, scalar and non-skalar.

Intervals over an octave.

Intonation and playing intervals.

5. Chords

Definition and construction of chords.

Triads and their inversions.

Dominant seventh chords and their inversions.

Seventh chords.

The creation of additional voices to a given melody.

6. The time space of music

Pulse, meter, rhythm.

Simple and complex beats, syncopation, pick-ups, dotted notes.

Music tempo markings.

Single and multi-voice rhythmic exercises.

7. The color space of music

Primary tone, aliquot tones.

Introduction to acoustics.

Musical instrument arrangements - classical, historical, folk, electronic.

Music groupings - vocal, instrumental, chamber and symphonic.

Music references.

8. Music forms

Motif, theme, overture, movement.

Working with a musical motif.

Grand and small forms.

Song form, sonata form, variation, rondo, canon.

Music references.

9. General overview of European music thought:

Period up to the Gregorian chant.

Gregorian chant, romantic.

Gothic, ars antiqua, ars nova.

Renaissance.

Baroque

Classicism.

Romantism.

Secessionism, impressionism, expressionism.

Period up to the Second World War.

Music of the 1950s and 60s.

Jazz, country, folklore, folk, pop....

10. Playing instruments

Play Recorders of the c1-g2 range.

Playing from the page.

Playing other musical instruments.

11. Vocal

Natural singing a capella of folk songs from the area of one's birth (residence) with consideration of one's own vocal disposition.

12. Didactics of rhythmic and vocal-instrumental activities

Judging the appropriateness of a composition for children of various age groups according to the score.

Method and manner of rehearsing vocal and instrumental compositions.

Study materials:

DOLINSKÝ, Antonín

1957 Hudební nauka. Učebnice hudební nauky pro 1. až 3. třídu hudebních škol. 1 (Praha: SNKLHU - 3. vyd.)

1957 Hudební nauka. Učebnice hudební nauky pro 4. až 7. třídu hudebních škol 2 (Praha: SNKLHU)

DIMÉNY, Judit

1992 Zvuk jako hra; přel. Nadja Jasanová (Praha: Panton)

HURNÍK, Ilja, Petr EBEN

1969-1972 Česká Orffova škola I-III (Praha-Bratislava: Supraphon)

KOLAFA, Jiří

1989 O dětské hudbě, hudbě pro děti, divadelní a loutkové zvláště (Ostrava: Krajské kulturní středisko v Ostravě)

1999 Hudební nauka pro nehudebníky (Praha: DAMU-FAMU - 2. rev. vyd.)

KURKOVÁ, Libuše

1981 Dětská tvořivost v hudbě a pohybu (Praha: SPN)

MOUREAU, Michel

1995 K hudbě přirozenou cestou. Využití Martenotovy metody při rozvoji dětské hudebnosti. Určeno předškolním dětským zařízením, mateřským a základním školám (Praha: ARTAMA)

VÁŇOVÁ, Hana

1989 Hudební tvořivost žáků mladšího školního věku (Praha: Supraphon)

ZENKL, Luděk

1976 ABC hudební nauky (Praha: Supraphon)

1984 ABC hudebních forem (Praha: Supraphon)

Note:

Schedule for winter semester 2009/2010:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2009/2010:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Doporučený bakalářský dramatická výchova - komb. (compulsory subject)