Composition Technique Fundamentals 4

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Subject guarantor:

Vladimír TICHÝ

Name of lecturer(s):

Tomáš KREJČA, 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 related to the issues in "Fundamentals of Composition Technique 3 (108ZST3). For each presented and explained problem, the instructor assigns the creation of a small exercise - etude. Gradually developed will be 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 finally one's own small composition, resolving individual discussed issues.

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:

See study material for "Basic Composition Technique 1 (108ZST1) and Basic Composition Technique 2 (108ZST2).

Assessment methods and criteria:

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

Course web page:

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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:

• Music Directing (Bc) ()
• Music Theory (Bc) ()