Composition Technique Fundamentals 3

Subject guarantor:

Lukáš MATOUŠEK, Miroslav PUDLÁK

Name of lecturer(s):

Lukáš MATOUŠEK, Miroslav PUDLÁK

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 related to the issues in "Fundamentals of Composition Technique 1 and 2 (108ZST1 and 108ZST2). For each presented and explained problem, the instructor assigns the creation of a small exercise - etude. Gradually developed will be 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 finally one's own small composition, resolving individual discussed issues.

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:

See study material for "Basic Composition Technique 1 (108ZST1) and Basic Composition Technique 2 (108ZST2).

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:

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