Organ Literature and History 2

Subject guarantor:

Josef POPELKA

Name of lecturer(s):

Josef POPELKA

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

Acquisition of a basic overview of development of the organ from antiquity to modern times and a tracing of all the important development periods of organ music from the Middle-ages to the works of contemporary composers.

Mode of study:

Instruction

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

None

Recommended optional programme components:

None.

Course contents:

This course follows the development of the organ from antiquity through the middle-ages, Gothic and Renaissance. Additionally it follows the development of the instrument in individual areas (Italy, Southern Germany, Northern Germany, The Netherlands, Spain, France and Bohemia).

Recommended or required reading:

Šlechta, Milan: Dějiny varhan a varhanní hudby, Praha 1985

Klinda, Ferdinand: Organ v kultúre dvoch tisícročí, Bratislava 2000

Recommended literature:

Beckmann, Klaus: Repertorium Orgelmusik, Mainz 1999

Kraus, Eberhard: Orgeln und Orgelmusik, Regensburg 1972

Frotscher, Gotthold: Geschichte des Orgelspiels und der Orgelkunst, Berlin 1966

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

Lectures

Assessment methods and criteria:

Lecture participation

Course web page:

Note:

None

Schedule for winter semester 2012/2013:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2012/2013:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Obor Varhany (Bc) (next compulsory subject)