Modern Composition Principles 2

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Subject guarantor:

Luboš MRKVIČKA

Name of lecturer(s):

Luboš MRKVIČKA

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

a) A thorough introduction to the main development current of music history of the 20th century.

b) Instruction focuses, primarily, on the basics of compositional dodecaphony methods,

c) probability principles and minimal music principles.

d) It traces, particularly in this, that the student exhausts all impulses for innovation in one's music language.

Mode of study:

2 hours/week, lecture, exercises

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

Knowledge from the previous semester.

Recommended optional programme components:

Independent study corresponding to the music literature. Listening experience and listening analysis.

Course contents:

a) Thorough introduction to the main development currents in music history of the 20th century.

b) Instruction focuses primarily on the fundamentals of dodecaphonic composition methods, serial and modal procedures

c) Probability principles and minimal music principles.

d) Monitoring that the students employ all impulses in innovation in their music language.

Recommended or required reading:

Piňos, Alois: Tónové skupiny. Supraphon, Praha 1971.

Kohoutek, Ctirad: Novodobé skladebné směry v hudbě. Vyd. 2., SHV, Praha 1965.

Kohoutek, Ctirad: Hudební kompozice. Supraphon, Praha 1989.

Nové cesty hudby I. SHV, Praha 1964.

Nové cesty hudby II. Supraphon Praha-Bratislava 1970.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

Application of knowledge in practice in the main study.

Assessment methods and criteria:

Consistent work, achieved results relative to the starting level of the student. Credit.

Course web page:

http://katedraskladby.hamu.cz/

Note:

none

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:

• Composition (Bc) (next compulsory subject)