Scores Reading 8

Subject guarantor:

Name of lecturer(s):

Otomar KVĚCH

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

Creating skills in the regular reading of music notation including more complex scores and their playing at the piano (possibly as a slower tempo, in a purposeful reduction of its individual elements, etc.). Ability to search for and fix errors in music score notation.

Mode of study:

Exercises at the piano

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

Good bearing in scores necessary for directing recording as the music director. Ability for good decisions regarding places, notated as incorrect or unclear.

Recommended optional programme components:

none

Course contents:

Summary knowledge of instrumentation:

Conventions in noting parts of individual instruments and their groups, such as key, transposition, etc. Continuously changing situations in individual orchestra, chamber music, vocal component, etc in a score.

Simple Chamber ensemble playing: leading voice with piano or other instrument, a chamber ensemble of 3, 4 up to 9 instruments. A string orchestra. Wind orchestra. Symphony orchestra. Casting for cantata, oratorio or opera. In playing the piano, the selection or at least indication of the course of individual performance components. Reading and playing compositions n various configurations in a progressing order from vocal polyphonny to contemporary music.

Recommended or required reading:

Petr Eben, J.Burghauser: Hra partitur

O.Jahn: Partiturbeispiele

Scores

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

exercises

Assessment methods and criteria:

presentation of compact score extracts.

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 Hudební režie (Mg) (next compulsory subject)