Percussion Instruments-Jazz 2

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Subject guarantor:

Jiří SLAVÍČEK

Name of lecturer(s):

Jiří SLAVÍČEK

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

The aim of study in this department is to achieve interpretive mastery of the entire set of instruments. There is a great number of them, from individual quite challenging devices, membranophonic, idiophonic, melodic, ethnic to new multi-percussion instruments. Many have arisen in the second half of the last century through the needs of composers for multiple types of sounds, colors and rhythms mastered by a single player.

Students should be able to perform solo and chamber works and lead a group of drummers, to be a soloists of a symphony orchestra.

Mode of study:

Regular individual consultations.

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

No prerequisites.

Course contents:

Broadening technical skills on individual sets of percussion instruments, particularly typani and small drums. Building a repertoire of solo compositions for these and other percussion instruments, primarily multi-percussion.

A basic emphasis is placed on interpretation of 20th century music bringing to percussion instruments qualitatively, completely new sound potential, expression resources and playing techniques. Finally, 20th century music presents new challenges for intellectual approaches to composition interpretation ideas and their realization.

Recommended or required reading:

V. Matoušek: Actékové

I. Loudová: Agamemnon

Y. Irino: Movement

Etudes for snare drum and timpani: Kotonski, Zegalski, Delecluse, Wilcoxon, Berger, Osadchuk

Vic Firth: Snare Drum Method 1+2

George L. Stone: Stick Control for the Snare Drummer

George L. Stone: Accents and Rebounds for the Snare Drummer

Anthony J. Cirone: Portraits in Rhythm: 50 Studies for Snare Drum

Assessment methods and criteria:

Performance in exams (evaluated by the exam commission), Initiative and creative approach during the whole of the semester (Instructor assessment).

Course web page:

Note:

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Schedule for winter semester 2015/2016:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2015/2016:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Percussion Instruments-Jazz (Bc) (compulsory subject of the main qualification)