Music Direction 4
Code | Completion | Credits | Range | Language Instruction | Semester |
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171HR4 | ZK | 7 | 2/T | Czech | summer |
- Subject guarantor:
- Jaroslav RYBÁŘ, Sylva STEJSKALOVÁ
- Name of lecturer(s):
- Jaroslav RYBÁŘ, Sylva STEJSKALOVÁ
- Learning outcomes of the course unit:
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1. Further develop skills in recognizing and judging artistic quality of music performance.
2. Further develop skills in recognizing sound and artisitic quality of a music recording.
3. To expand knowledge of music literature in releation to the characteristic markings of historical styles and styles of individual composers.
4. To introduce students to the development and basic technical principles of sound recording.
5. Gradual introduction to the whole process of making a music recording, its processing and final modifications from a music director's perspective.
- Mode of study:
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Presentation regarding issues in sound recording and the work of the music director.
Listening to recordings, analysis of musical performance and recording sound treatment. Comparison of various interpretations and discussions about them.
- Prerequisites and co-requisites:
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Listening ability. Extensive knowledge of music theory (harmony, counterpoint, music form, instrument study). Ability to analyse a work of music. Presumed knowledge of the content from the previous year of study.
- Course contents:
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Lecture section
1/ Technical aspects of recording
2/ Microphone - its potential and limits
3/ Monophonics, stereophonics and multi-channel technology
Class section
1. Interpretation analysis of important recordings, analysis of their sound concept (character of acoustics of a space, measure of reverb, manners of recording, presence or absence, etc.) Discussion.
2. Comparison of various recordings of the same music, interpretation analysis and sound concept recordings. Discussion.
- Recommended or required reading:
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Music recordings (CD, DVD,LP, cassette).
1. Key recordings of Czech chamber, symphonic and opera music (ex. Smetana: Má vlast - Talich, Ančerl, Neumann, Smetáček, Bělohlávek, Kubelík, etc.)
2. Important recordings of world music (ex.. historically scholarly recordings of J.E. Gardiner - Mozart: Koncerty pro klavír, Beethoven: Symfonie etc.).
Accompanying notation material
Texts:
Jaroslav Rybář: Hudební režie
Instruction texts dealing with issues in recording classical music and music direction. (This text does not currently have the official textbook form for the Music Direction course)
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Publications:
Václav Syrový: Akustika
Václav Vlachý: Praxe zvukové techniky
Ladislav Šíp: Nahrávání a reprodukovaná hudba
Ladislav Šíp: Pěvci před mikrofonem
Václav Zamazal: Hudební nástroje před mikrofonem
- Assessment methods and criteria:
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Credit is awarded based on these criteria:
1. Overall participation in class discussions
2. A completed semester course paper (comparison of a recording from the viewpoint of performance and the sound concept - comparing at least three different recordings) and the presentation of this in class.
3. A written complete review of at least two concerts or opera performances attended.
4. Sitting of the oral year's exam over the course lectures.
- Course web page:
- Note:
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none
- Schedule for winter semester 2016/2017:
- The schedule has not yet been prepared
- Schedule for summer semester 2016/2017:
- The schedule has not yet been prepared
- The subject is a part of the following study plans:
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- Music Directing (Bc) (next compulsory subject)