Music Electronics 1

Subject guarantor:

Milan GUŠTAR

Name of lecturer(s):

Milan GUŠTAR

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

Broaden knowledge in the functional principles and application of electronic musical instruments.

Mode of study:

Moderated discussion

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

Basic knowledge of music acoustics, electronics and studies in musical instruments.

Recommended optional programme components:

Course contents:

First contact of music and electricity, electromechanical tools

Cahill's Telharmonium

First electronic instruments and their construction principles.

Theremin, Marten's waves, Trautonium, Mixture Trautonium

Electrified bowed and string instruments, Neo-Bechstein

Electrostatic and electro-optic organs

First purely electronic organ

The Hammond electrophonic organ - development of the popular branch

Allen Electronic organ - development of the classic branch

Electronic automatophones - first sythesizers

Synthesizer RCA Mark, Concept of studio synthesizers

Advent of voltage management systems - Ketoff, Buchla, Moog

Moog synthesizers

Synthesizers of the 70s and 80s, digitalization and advent of MIDI

Recommended or required reading:

Syrový Václav, Malé dějiny hudební elektroniky, Hudební nástroje - separát

Syrový Václav, Malý slovník základních pojmů z hudební akustiky a hudební elektroniky, AMU 2001

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

Lecture

Assessment methods and criteria:

completion of an oral exam

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 Zvuková tvorba (Bc) (next compulsory subject)