Composition Technique Fundamentals 1

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Subject guarantor:

Miroslav PUDLÁK, Vladimír TICHÝ

Name of lecturer(s):

Tomáš KREJČA, Miroslav PUDLÁK, Vladimír TICHÝ

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. For each presented and explained problem, the instructor assigns the creation of a small exercise - etude. Generally applied methods will be gradually discussed: tectonic exercises, basic instrumentation exercises. Also to be developed is 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 etc...

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

Written completion of a composition etudes according to instructor assignment.

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:

HŮLA, Zdeněk: Nauka o harmonii, SNKLU, Praha 1956

HŮLA, Zdeněk: Nauka o kontrapunktu. Editio Supraphon, Praha 1985

IŠTVAN, Miloslav: Metoda montáže izolovaných prvků v hudbě, Panton Praha 1973

JANEČEK, Karel: Hudební formy. SNKLHU, Praha 1955

JANEČEK, Karel: Základy moderní harmonie. Nakladatelství ČSAV, Praha 1965

LOUDOVÁ, Ivana: Moderní notace a její interpretace, Nakladatelství AMU,Praha 1998

Výběr staví ze sborníků Nové cesty hudby, Sborník studií o novodobých skladebných směrech a vědeckých pohledech na hudbu, SVH, Praha 1964, Editio Supraphon, Praha ? Bratislava 1970

Orchestrace jako proces, sborník studií Katedry skladby HAMU, Praha 2010

RYCHLÍK, Jan, Moderní Instrumentace, Panton Praha 1968

Assessment methods and criteria:

Credit is awarded based on student activity and results from the completed etude assignment.

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Schedule for winter semester 2015/2016:

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Schedule for summer semester 2015/2016:

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The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Music Directing (Bc) (next compulsory subject)
• Music Theory (Bc) (next compulsory subject)