Music Analysis 2

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Subject guarantor:

Iva OPLIŠTILOVÁ

Name of lecturer(s):

Iva OPLIŠTILOVÁ

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

The course aim is the greatest glimpse into a music text. An understanding of a musical organism from a vertical and horizontal, as well as from a perspective of detail and as a whole. The relationship of musical and extra-musical components of the studied compositions (text, theatre action). Linkages to other types of arts, philosophy. Comparative analysis of characteristic features of national music presented by the attending students.

Mode of study:

Analyses of compositions by reading scores (form, harmony, counterpoint, structure, instrumentation and other characteristic elements in a composition). Subsequent listening to composition recordings with a score. Discussion of the presented analysis, work on diagrams.

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

Required are a basic knowledge of form, harmony and counterpoint.

Recommended optional programme components:

No electives required

Course contents:

At the beginning of the course the instructor prepares a number of example analyses to explain in detail the issues of the course.

In the second half of the semester students bring analyses of composers of their own culture. Use of similar elements in diferent context is compared. Once in the semester, each student presents his own complete analysis of a composition chosen in cooperation with the instructor.

Recommended or required reading:

LaRue, Jan. Guidelines for style analysis : expanded second edition with models for style analysis, a companion text. Michigan : Harmonie Park Press, 2011.

Owen, Harold. Modal and tonal counterpoint : from Josquin to Stravinsky. New York : Schirmer, 1992.

Tymoczko, Dmitri. A Geometry of music : harmony and counterpoint in the extended common practice. New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Krenek, Ernst. Zwölfton-Kontrapunkt-Studien. Mainz : Schott, 1952.

Pratt, George. The dynamics of harmony : principles & practice. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1996

Schönberg, Arnold. Theory of Harmony : Harmonielehre. New York : Philosophical Library, 1948

Caplin, William Earl. Classical form : a theory of formal functions for the instrumental music of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1998

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

seminar

Assessment methods and criteria:

Credit is awarded based on: activity in the course, development and presentation of the semester's written work. In the second semester along with a presentation in class an analysis is submitted in written form.

In the second semester, as well, students sit an exam which confirms the knowledge acquired during the course; in particular analyses, mastery of analysis methods. Its parts are submitted and defended in writing and graphically for the second semester.

The overall evaluation is comprised of 60% for activity in the course and 40% for the written course work.

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Note:

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Further information:

This course is an elective for all students of this school

Schedule for winter semester 2014/2015:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2014/2015:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans: