Modern Composition Principles 1

Subject guarantor:

Luboš MRKVIČKA

Name of lecturer(s):

Luboš MRKVIČKA

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

a) A thorough introduction to the main development current of music history of the 20th century.

b) Instruction focuses, primarily, on the basics of compositional dodecaphony methods,

c) serial and modal procedures,

d) probability principles and minimal music principles.

e) It traces, particularly in this, that the student exhausts all impulses for innovation in one's music language.

Mode of study:

2 hours per week, credit

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

Fundmental composing skills in traditional techniques. Listening experience in 20th century music.

Recommended optional programme components:

Independent study corresponding to the music literature. Listening experience and listening analysis.

Course contents:

a) Thorough introduction to the main development currents in music history of the 20th century.

b) Instruction focuses primarily on the fundamentals of dodecaphonic composition methods

c) Serial and modal procedures

d) Probability principles and minimal music principles.

e) Monitoring that the students employ all impulses in innovation in their music language.

Recommended or required reading:

Adorno, Theodor W.: Philosophie der neuen Musik. Frankfurt a. M. 1958.

Aspekte der Neuen Musik. Kassel, Bärenreiter 1968.

Jelinek, Hans: Anleitung zur Zvölftonkomposition (český překlad Uvedení do dodekafonické skladby, Translator: Eduard Herzog, Supraphon, Praha-Bratislava 1967.

Kohoutek, Ctirad: Novodobé skladebné směry v hudbě. Vyd. 2., SHV, Praha 1965.

Nové cesty hudby I. SHV, Praha 1964.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

Application of knowledge in practice in the main study.

Assessment methods and criteria:

Consistent work, achieved results relative to the starting level of the student. Credit.

Course web page:

http://katedraskladby.hamu.cz/

Note:

none

Schedule for winter semester 2013/2014:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2013/2014:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Obor Skladba (Bc) (next compulsory subject)