Seminar of Music 1
Code | Completion | Credits | Range | Semester |
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204HUS1 | Z | 1 | 2/T | winter |
- Subject guarantor:
- Vratislav ŠRÁMEK
- Name of lecturer(s):
- Ivan RUML
- Learning outcomes of the course unit:
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1. Introduction to the basic stages and changes of music styles.
2. Learning a historical perception of the history of music in relation to social changes and political events of a certain period.
3. Auditory recognition of individual style changes based on listening to music examples.
4. Acquiring the skill to properly select stage music from a historical perspective of the rise of theatre plays, or the period of the occurence of the drama event.
5. Building experience in listening to music from the director's and dramaturgist's perspective.
- Mode of study:
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Reading of recommended trade literature, analysis of music examples from a historical and form (sonata, fugue form structures), development of listening experience, study of aesthetics and historic styles, comparison of historical events with the development of music and other arts disciplines.
- Prerequisites and co-requisites:
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1. General knowledge of Czech and world music pieces
2. General knowledge of basic theatre studies and musicology.
3. Skills in music analysis according to listening and viewing scores.
4. Creativity and listening skills for working with music.
- Course contents:
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The lecture and class series is understood as one of the components of a stage piece in interaction with other components.
Curriculum:
1. Pre-history and exotic cultures, Music of Ancient Greece. Christian liturgical songs, beginnings of notation.
2. Spiritual games and songs. Liturgical drama in Bohemia 1200-1400.
3. Rise of multi-voice and measure notation. Notre Dame, Ars Antiqua, Ars Nova, Franco-Flemish music of the 15th and 16th century, Renaissance music theory.
4. Rise of the Baroque style, Florentine Camerata, Claudio Monteverdi.
5. Elizabethan music, Virginalists, Shakespearian inspiration in Czech and World music.
6. Johann Wolfgang Goethe and his period - Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Ludwig van Beethoven.
7. Richard Wagner and the aesthetics of Gesamtkunstwerk.
8. Impressionism and Verism - Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Ottorino Respighi, Manuel de Falla, Giacomo Puccini.
9. Expressionism - Arnold Shoenberg and his school.
10. Neo-classical - Igor Stravisky, Sergej Prokofiev, Bohuslav Martinů.
11. Darmstadt, The Polish School, Pierre Boulez, Olivier Messiaen.
12. American music, minimalism (Philip Glass, John Adams).
- Recommended or required reading:
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Oscar G. Brockett: Dějiny divadla, Praha 1999
Gracian Černušák: Dějiny evropské hudby, Praha-Bratislava 1964
Friedrich Hezfeld: Musica nova, Praha 1966
Václav Holzknecht: Bedřich Smetana, Praha 1984
Anna Hostomská: Opera - průvodce operní tvorbou, Praha 1999
Jaroslav Kofroň: Učebnice harmonie, Praha 1961
Dorothea Leonhartová: Mozart, zamlčená tvář, Praha 2005
Antonín Modr: Hudební nástroje, Praha 1982
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, vol. 1-20 London 1995
The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, vol. 1-4, London 1998
Jaroslav Smolka a kolektiv: Dějiny hudby, Brno 2001
Jaroslav Volek: Kapitoly z dějin estetiky. Od antiky k počátku XX. Století, Praha 1969
Jan Wenig: Byli v Praze, Praha 1980
Winfried Zillig:Variace na novou hudbu, Praha 1971
- Assessment methods and criteria:
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Credit is awarded based on:
- activity in and regular attendance to lectures and classes
- completion of the semester paper
- completion of the final exam and oral exam
During the semester independent reading of recommended literature, listenings to music, attendance at concerts and opera performances (also in film screening form), participation in discussions in lectures and classes are required. The exam is written and oral. The overall grading is comprised of 30% for participation and attendance at lectures and classes, 30% for the written, listening and written sections of the final exam at the end of the semester and 40% for the oral section.
A condition for successful completion of the course: participation at lectures and classes, completion and presentation of the course paper and completion of course tests.
- Course web page:
- Note:
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This course is taught over 2 semesters in the 1st or 2nd study-year Alternative and Puppet Theatre dept, directing and dramaturgy study. It is an elective with number limits for other study students at DAMU.
Instruction schedule see: www DAMU / katedra ALD / Rozvrhy hodin
- Further information:
- This course is an elective for all students of this school
- Schedule for winter semester 2016/2017:
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06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Date Day Time Tutor Location Notes No. of paralel Thu 10:30–12:00 Učebna
Karlova 26, Praha 1přednášková par. 1 - Schedule for summer semester 2016/2017:
- The schedule has not yet been prepared
- The subject is a part of the following study plans: