Composition Technique Fundamentals 1

Subject guarantor:

Miroslav PUDLÁK, Vladimír TICHÝ

Name of lecturer(s):

Miroslav PUDLÁK, Vladimír TICHÝ

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

Exercises with the aim to expand, improve and develop composition skills in working with music.

Mode of study:

Students are gradually introduced to the fundamentals of composition technique. For each presented and explained problem, the instructor assigns the creation of a small exercise - etude. Generally applied methods will be gradually discussed: tectonic exercises, basic instrumentation exercises. Also to be developed is the practice of assignements: tone material organization in a dodecaphonic exercise, horizontal and vertical tone organization, contemporary modality exercises, meter-rhythmic exercises, creating a tectonic structure and etc...

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

Written completion of a composition etudes according to instructor assignment.

Recommended optional programme components:

No elective requirements.

Course contents:

Exercises in composition techniques for non-composers. General tectonic exercises, basic instrumentation exercises, tone material organization in dodecaphonics, horizontal and veritical tone organization, exercises in new era modalities, meter-rhythmic exercises, creation of tectonic structures from assignement and individual level of student maturity

Recommended or required reading:

HŮLA, Zdeněk: Nauka o harmonii, SNKLU, Praha 1956

HŮLA, Zdeněk: Nauka o kontrapunktu. Editio Supraphon, Praha 1985

IŠTVAN, Miloslav: Metoda montáže izolovaných prvků v hudbě, Panton Praha 1973

JANEČEK, Karel: Hudební formy. SNKLHU, Praha 1955

JANEČEK, Karel: Základy moderní harmonie. Nakladatelství ČSAV, Praha 1965

LOUDOVÁ, Ivana: Moderní notace a její interpretace, Nakladatelství AMU,Praha 1998

Výběr staví ze sborníků Nové cesty hudby, Sborník studií o novodobých skladebných směrech a vědeckých pohledech na hudbu, SVH, Praha 1964, Editio Supraphon, Praha ? Bratislava 1970

Orchestrace jako proces, sborník studií Katedry skladby HAMU, Praha 2010

RYCHLÍK, Jan, Moderní Instrumentace, Panton Praha 1968

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

exercises

Assessment methods and criteria:

Credit is awarded based on student activity and results from the completed etude assignment.

Course web page:

Note:

none

Schedule for winter semester 2013/2014:

	06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon
Tue
Fri	místnost 2026 Učebna KTDH 2026 (Lichenštejnský palác) TICHÝ V. 17:00–17:45 (paralelka 1)místnost 2017 Učebna KTDH 2017 (Lichenštejnský palác) PUDLÁK M. 17:50–18:35 (paralelka 1)
Thu
Fri

Date	Day	Time	Tutor	Location	Notes	No. of paralel
	Fri	17:00–17:45	TICHÝ V.	Učebna KTDH 2026 Lichenštejnský palác		paralelka 1
	Fri	17:50–18:35	PUDLÁK M.	Učebna KTDH 2017 Lichenštejnský palác		paralelka 1

Schedule for summer semester 2013/2014:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Obor Hudební teorie (Bc) (next compulsory subject)
• Obor Hudební režie (Bc) (next compulsory subject)
• Obor Zvuková tvorba (Mg) (optional subject)