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204HUS1 Z 1 2/T winter
Subject guarantor:
Vratislav ŠRÁMEK
Name of lecturer(s):
Lukáš JIŘIČKA
Learning outcomes of the course unit:

1. Introduction to the basic stages and changes of music styles.

2. Learning a historical perception of the history of music in relation to social changes and political events of a certain period.

3. Auditory recognition of individual style changes based on listening to music examples.

4. Acquiring the skill to properly select stage music from a historical perspective of the rise of theatre plays, or the period of the occurence of the drama event.

5. Building experience in listening to music from the director's and dramaturgist's perspective.

Mode of study:

Reading of recommended trade literature, analysis of music examples from a historical and form (sonata, fugue form structures), development of listening experience, study of aesthetics and historic styles, comparison of historical events with the development of music and other arts disciplines.

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

1. General knowledge of Czech and world music pieces

2. General knowledge of basic theatre studies and musicology.

3. Skills in music analysis according to listening and viewing scores.

4. Creativity and listening skills for working with music.

Recommended optional programme components:

Symphonic and chamber music concert attendance, opera performance and opera festivals attendance, listenings to classical music CDs according to the instruction plan.

Course contents:

The lecture and class series is understood as one of the components of a stage piece in interaction with other components

Curriculum:

1. Pre-history and exotic cultures, Music of Ancient Greece. Christian liturgical songs, beginnings of notation.

2. Spiritual games and songs. Liturgical drama in Bohemia 1200-1400

3. Rise of multi-voice and measure notation. Notre Dame, Ars Antiqua, Ars Nova, Franco-Flemish music of the 15th and 16th century, Renaissance music theory

4. Rise of the Baroque style, Florentine Camerata, Claudio Monteverdi

5. Elizabethan music, Virginalists, Shakespearian inspiration in Czech and World music

6. Johann Wolfgang Goethe and his period - Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Ludwig van Beethoven

7. Richard Wagner and the aesthetics of Gesamtkunstwerk

8. Impressionism and Verism - Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Ottorino Respighi, Manuel de Falla, Giacomo Puccini

9. Expressionism - Arnold Shoenberg and his school

10. Neo-classical - Igor Stravisky, Sergej Prokofiev, Bohuslav Martinů

11. Darmstadt, The Polish School, Pierre Boulez, Olivier Messiaen

12. American music, minimalism (Philip Glass, John Adams)

Recommended or required reading:

Oscar G. Brockett: Dějiny divadla, Praha 1999

Gracian Černušák: Dějiny evropské hudby, Praha-Bratislava 1964

Friedrich Hezfeld: Musica nova, Praha 1966

Václav Holzknecht: Bedřich Smetana, Praha 1984

Anna Hostomská: Opera - průvodce operní tvorbou, Praha 1999

Jaroslav Kofroň: Učebnice harmonie, Praha 1961

Dorothea Leonhartová: Mozart, zamlčená tvář, Praha 2005

Antonín Modr: Hudební nástroje, Praha 1982

The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, vol. 1-20 London 1995

The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, vol. 1-4, London 1998

Jaroslav Smolka a kolektiv: Dějiny hudby, Brno 2001

Jaroslav Volek: Kapitoly z dějin estetiky. Od antiky k počátku XX. Století, Praha 1969

Jan Wenig: Byli v Praze, Praha 1980

Winfried Zillig:Variace na novou hudbu, Praha 1971

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

Lectures (a systematic presentation of music history), excursions to places connected with music - The Czech Music Museum, Czech Radio, visits to traditional concert halls and theatre buildings with historical presentations.

Assessment methods and criteria:

Credit is awarded based on:

- activity in and regular attendance to lectures and classes

- completion of the semester paper

- completion of the final exam and oral exam

During the semester independent reading of recommended literature, listenings to music, attendance at concerts and opera performances (also in film screening form), participation in discussions in lectures and classes are required. The exam is written and oral. The overall grading is comprised of 30% for participation and attendance at lectures and classes, 30% for the written, listening and written sections of the final exam at the end of the semester and 40% for the oral section.

A condition for successful completion of the course: participation at lectures and classes, completion and presentation of the course paper and completion of course tests.

Course web page:
Note:

This course is taught over 2 semesters in the 1st or 2nd study-year Alternative and Puppet Theatre dept, directing and dramaturgy study. It is an elective with number limits for other study students at DAMU.

Instruction schedule see: www DAMU / katedra ALD / Rozvrhy hodin

Further information:
This course is an elective for all students of this school
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
Thu
Fri
místnost S202
Zasedací místnost

(Karlova 26, Praha 1)
JIŘIČKA L.
09:00–10:30
(přednášková par. 1)
Date Day Time Tutor Location Notes No. of paralel
Fri 09:00–10:30 JIŘIČKA L. Zasedací místnost
Karlova 26, Praha 1
přednášková par. 1
Schedule for summer semester 2013/2014:
The schedule has not yet been prepared
The subject is a part of the following study plans:
Generated on 2014-06-18
Updates of the above given information can be found at http://sp.amu.cz/en/predmet204HUS1.html