Musical and Rhythmical Education 1

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Subject guarantor:

Tomáš KOLAFA

Name of lecturer(s):

Tomáš KOLAFA

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

The basic aim of the course is, at a theoretical level, an orientation in the fundamentals of music education and a general historical overview of the development of music. From a position of skill the students master, at the elementary form, playing recorder and using their playing abilities on other instruments and singing in choir. The work with the students is completed with an independent musical skill work, mastery of music theory, playing the recorder, singing of folk songs from the area of their origin and a general music overview.

Mode of study:

Contact instruction, discussion, media recording analyses, training.

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

Sense of rhythm, elementary disposition to music, active approach, desire to experiment.

Course contents:

1. Basic music concepts

Sound, tone, tone characteristics, tone systems, tuning systems, The Italian music terminology.

2. Notation

A historical look at the development of notation, notation basics, key, measure, accidentals, notes, rests, key signatures, repeats, terminology, lyric notation, multi-stave recording - scores.

3. Scales

Definition.

Church scales, major, minor, chromatic, whole-tone, pentatonic, gypsy intonation, playing of scales.

4. Intervals

Definition.

Upper and lower intervals, basic and derivations, scalar and non-skalar.

Intervals over an octave.

Intonation and playing intervals.

5. Chords

Definition and construction of chords.

Triads and their inversions.

Dominant seventh chords and their inversions.

Seventh chords.

The creation of additional voices to a given melody.

6. The time space of music

Pulse, meter, rhythm.

Simple and complex beats, syncopation, pick-ups, dotted notes.

Music tempo markings.

Single and multi-voice rhythmic exercises.

7. The color space of music

Primary tone, aliquot tones.

Introduction to acoustics.

Musical instrument arrangements - classical, historical, folk, electronic.

Music groupings - vocal, instrumental, chamber and symphonic.

Music references.

8. Music forms

Motif, theme, overture, movement.

Working with a musical motif.

Grand and small forms.

Song form, sonata form, variation, rondo, canon.

Music references.

9. General overview of European music thought:

Period up to the Gregorian chant.

Gregorian chant, romantic.

Gothic, ars antiqua, ars nova.

Renaissance.

Baroque

Classicism.

Romantism.

Secessionism, impressionism, expressionism.

Period up to the Second World War.

Music of the 1950s and 60s.

Jazz, country, folklore, folk, pop....

10. Playing instruments

Play Recorders of the c1-g2 range.

Playing from the page.

Playing other musical instruments.

11. Vocal

Natural singing a capella of folk songs from the area of one's birth (residence) with consideration of one's own vocal disposition.

12. Didactics of rhythmic and vocal-instrumental activities

Judging the appropriateness of a composition for children of various age groups according to the score.

Method and manner of rehearsing vocal and instrumental compositions.

Recommended or required reading:

DOLINSKÝ, Antonín. Hudební nauka: Učebnice hudební nauky pro 1. až 3. třídu hudebních škol: 1. díl. 3. vyd. Praha: SNKLHU, 1957. 132 s.

---. Hudební nauka. Učebnice hudební nauky pro 4. až 7. třídu hudebních škol 2. díl. Praha: SNKLHU, 1957. 120 s.

DIMÉNY, Judit. Zvuk jako hra. Přel. Nadja Jasanová. Praha: Panton, 1992. 184 s. ISBN 80-7039-152-9.

HURNÍK, Ilja; EBEN, Petr. Česká Orffova škola II: Pentatonika. Praha-Bratislava: Supraphon, 1969. 56 s.

---. Česká Orffova škola III: DUR - MOLL. Praha: Supraphon, 1972. 108 s.

HURNÍK, Ilja; EBEN, Petr aj. Česká Orffova škola I: Začátky. Praha: Supraphon, 1969. 100 s.

KOLAFA, Jiří. Hudební nauka pro nehudebníky. 2., rev. vyd. Praha: AMU, Divadelní fakulta / Filmová a televizní fakulta, 1999.108 s. ISBN 80-85883-47-3.

---. O dětské hudbě, hudbě pro děti, divadelní a loutkové zvláště. Ostrava: Krajské kulturní středisko v Ostravě, 1989. 16 s.

KURKOVÁ, Libuše. Dětská tvořivost v hudbě a pohybu. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1981. 104 s.

MOUREAU, Michel. K hudbě přirozenou cestou: Využití Martenotovy metody při rozvoji dětské hudebnosti: Určeno předškolním dětským zařízením, mateřským a základním školám. Přel. Jaroslava Modrochová. Praha: ARTAMA, 1995. 40 s. ISBN 80-7068-092-X.

VÁŇOVÁ, Hana. Hudební tvořivost žáků mladšího školního věku. Praha: Supraphon, 1989. 200 s. Comenium musicum, sv. 19. ISBN 80-7058-149-2.

ZENKL, Luděk. ABC hudebních forem. Praha: Supraphon, 1984. 256 s.

---. ABC hudební nauky. Praha: Supraphon, 1976. 200 s.

Assessment methods and criteria:

Credit is awarded based on activity in exercises.

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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:

• Drama in Education - part-time 3 years (B. A.) (compulsory subject)