Musical and Rhythmical Education 1

Tutor:

Tomáš KOLAFA

Synopsis:

The characteristic features of the course are its musical and predominant active nature. The course originates in an active adoption or enlivening of music study by choral singing and playing on musical instruments.

Prerequisites:

Sense of rhythm, basic musical disposition, active approach, desire to experiment.

Study Objectives:

The fundamental goal of the course is, on the theory level, a basic knowledge in the foundations of music instruction and a general historic overview of the development of music. Students master elementary recorder playing and use their abilities in playing other instruments and vocal experience in ensemble playing. Student coursework is completed by a in skilled individual music practice, mastering music theory, recorder, singing of folk songs from the area of their residence and general music overview.

Outline and Syllabus:

1. Fundamental music concepts

Sound, tone, tone characteristics, tone systems, tuning systems, Music terminology.

2. Notation

Historical overview on the development of notation.

3. Scales

Church, major, minor, chromatic, whole-tone, pentatonic, „Gypsy intonation“ and scale playing.

4. Intervals

Upper and lower intervals, basic and derived, scalar and non-scalar.

Intervals over an octave.

Intonation and playing intervals.

5. Chords.

Definition and constructing chords.

3-tone chords and their inversion.

Dominant 7th chords and their inversions.

Seventh chords.

Creating additional voices for a given melody.

6. The „time space“ of music

Pulse, meter, rhythm.

Simple and complex measures, syncopation, pick-up measures, dotted notes.

Music tempo markings

Single and Multi-voice rhythm practice

7. The „color space“ of music

Primary tone, harmonics.

Introduction to acoustics.

Musical instrument systems - Classical, historical, folk, electronic.

Musical bodies - vocal, instrumental, chamber and symphonic.

8. Music forms

Motif, theme, opening phrase, closing phrase.

Working with music motifs.

Large and small forms

Song form, sonata form, variation, rondo, canon

9. General overview of European music thought:

The period up to the Gregorian Chorale.

Gregorian Choral, The Romantic.

Gothic, ars antiqua, ars nova

The Renaissance.

The Baroque

The Classic period

The Romatic

Arte Nouveau, impressionism, expressionism

Period up to the WWII

Music of the 1950s and 60s.

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

10. Playing an instrument

Recorder in range of c1-g2.

Playing from a page.

Playing other musical instruments.

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 magisterský dramatická výchova (compulsory subject)