1. Acquainting the students with the basic stages and changes in music styles

2. Mastering a historical perception of the history of music in relation to societal changes and political events of particular eras

3. Auditor recognition of individual layers of changes based on listening to music samples.

4. Acquiring abilities to properly select stage music from a historic perspective of the rise of theatre plays, or periods containing dramatic events.

5. Building experience in the listening of music from a directing or dramaturgy perspective.

Reading of recommended industry literature. Analysis of music examples from a historical and form perspective (structure of the sonata form, fugues). Development of listening skills. Study of aesthetics and historical styles. Comparison of historical events in the development of music and other arts.

1. General knowledge of Czech and world music pieces

2. General knowledge of theatre are music studies

3. Music analysis skills through listening and seeing a score.

4. Creativity and listening requirements for working with music.

Attendance at symphonice and chamber music concerts. Attendance at opera performances and opera festivals. Listenings to CDs of classical music according to the instruction plan.

This series of lectures and classes is viewed as one of the components of a stage piece in interaction with other components

Syllabus:

1. Antiquity and exotic cultures. Music of the „Old Greeks“, Christian liturgical songs, beginnings of notation

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

3. Rise of multi-voice and measural notation, Notre Dame, Ars Antiqua, Ars Nova, Franko - Flemish music of the 15th and 16th centuries, Renaissance music theory

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

5. Elizabethan music, Virginalists, Shakespeare 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 Gesamtkunstwerk aesthetics

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

9. Expressionism - Arnold Schoenberg and his school

10. Neoclassicism - Igor Stravinsky, Sergej Prokofiev, Bohuslav Martinů

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

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

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

Lectures (systematic presentation of music history). Excursions to locations linked to music - The Czech Music Museum, Czech Radio. Visits to traditional concert halls and theatre buildings with presentations of history.

Credit is awarded based on:

- participation and regular attendance at lectures and classes

- completion of the semester paper

- completion of the final test and oral exam

During the semester indepedent reading of the recommended literature, listenings to music, concert and opera performance (also filmed performances) attendance is required, as well as participation in discussion in lectures and classes. A written and oral exam is required. The overall grade is comprised of 30% for lecture and class attendance and participation, 30% for the written section (final exam at the end of the semester - listening and written) and 40% for the oral exam.

The conditions for successful completion of the course: Lecture and class participation, completion and presentation of the class paper and completion of on-going tests.

• Performerství alternativního divadla (Bc.) programu Divadelní tvorba v netradičních prostorech (compulsory optional subject)
• Scénografie alternativního divadla (Bc.) programu Divadelní tvorba v netradičních prostorech (compulsory optional subject)
• Režie a dramaturgie alternativního divadla (Bc.) programu Divadelní tvorba v netradičních prostorech (compulsory optional subject)