Piano Playing Methodology 4

Subject guarantor:

Alena VLASÁKOVÁ

Name of lecturer(s):

Alena VLASÁKOVÁ

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

Lectures over two semesters prepare pianists for professional teaching at all levels of elementary schools, performance courses, seminars and competition juries. Lectures are supplemented in each semester of Teaching Practice providing students, in individual lessons, potential independent teaching of pupils. This course leads to the state bachelor's exam for acquiring teaching qualification where the practical and theory level of the student performance is comprehensively assessed.

Mode of study:

contact instruction

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

Analysis of selected works from a fundamental conservatory repertoire.

Recommended optional programme components:

None

Course contents:

- Conservatory piano instruction design, curriculum, individual approach to pupil training and its intentions and potential

- Searching for talent, creating conditions for successful study, motivation and cultivation of desire, establishing realistic goals, linking music to other types of art and general knowledge.

- Listening training, metro-rhythmic feeling, color in keystrokes, understanding the purpose of the composers text, finding the content of the musical statement, supporting the independent creative approach of the pupil in interpretation.

- Cross-section of study material for piano for all 6 years of conservatory

- Preparations for commission exams, concert performance and competitions, viewpoints of classification, preparations for higher institutes of study

- Specific issues of piano instruction for students with health disabilities

- Teaching students at Intermediate education schools and students at secondary schools where piano is part of professional preparations

- Piano methods instruction at education schools and preparing the graduates of those school for the profession of piano instruction

- Piano duo instruction methods.

Recommended or required reading:

Barenbojm, L.: Voprosy fortepiannoj pedagogiky i ispolnitelstva. Leningrad 1969

Elder, D.: Pianists at Play. Londýn 1989

Gieseking, W. - Leimer, K.: Piano technique. New York 1972

Kochevitsky, G.: The Art of Piano Playing. Princeton 1976

Lhevinne, J.: Basic Principles in Pianoforte Playing. New York 1972

Mach, E.: Great Contemporary Pianists Speak for Themselves. New York 1988

Moss, E.: More than Teaching. Toronto 1989

Newman, W. S.: The Pianist´s Problems. New York 1974

Sborník - Kol. autorů: Voprosy fortepiannogo iskusstva i ispolnitelstva. Moskva 1973

Učební osnovy konzervatoří pro předmět Hra na klavír.

Učební osnovy pro výuku povinného klavíru na konzervatoři.

Wolters, K.: Handbuch der Klavierliteratur zu zwei Händen. 4. vydání, Zürich - Mainz 1994

Notation material required by conservatory curriculum.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

Lectures

Assessment methods and criteria:

Activity in the lectures.

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 Klavír (Bc) (next compulsory subject)
• Obor Klavír (Mg) (optional subject)