Seminar of Music 4
Code | Completion | Credits | Range | Language Instruction | Semester |
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204HUS4 | Z | 1 | 2/T | Czech | summer |
- Subject guarantor:
- Vratislav ŠRÁMEK
- Name of lecturer(s):
- Ivan RUML
- Learning outcomes of the course unit:
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1. Acquainting the students with the basic stages and changes in music styles.
2. Mastering a historical perception of the history of music in relation to societal changes and political events of particular eras.
3. Auditor recognition of individual layers of changes based on listening to music samples.
4. Acquiring abilities to properly select stage music from a historic perspective of the rise of theatre plays, or periods containing dramatic events.
5. Building experience in the listening of music from a directing or dramaturgy perspective.
- Mode of study:
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Reading of recommended industry literature. Analysis of music examples from a historical and form perspective (structure of the sonata form, fugues). Development of listening skills. Study of aesthetics and historical styles. Comparison of historical events in the development of music and other arts.
- Prerequisites and co-requisites:
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1. General knowledge of Czech and world music pieces.
2. General knowledge of theatre are music studies.
3. Music analysis skills through listening and seeing a score.
4. Creativity and listening requirements for working with music.
- Course contents:
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This series of lectures and classes is viewed as one of the components of a stage piece in interaction with other components.
Syllabus:
1. Antiquity and exotic cultures. Music of the „Old Greeks“, Christian liturgical songs, beginnings of notation.
2. Spiritual games and songs, liturgical drama in Bohemia 1200-1400.
3. Rise of multi-voice and measural notation, Notre Dame, Ars Antiqua, Ars Nova, Franko - Flemish music of the 15th and 16th centuries, Renaissance music theory.
4. Rise of the Baroque style. The Florentine Camerata, Claudio Monteverdi.
5. Elizabethan music, Virginalists, Shakespeare 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 Gesamtkunstwerk aesthetics.
8. Impressionism and Verism - Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Ottorino Respighi, Manuel de Falla, Giacomo Puccini.
9. Expressionism - Arnold Schoenberg and his school.
10. Neoclassicism - Igor Stravinsky, Sergej Prokofiev, Bohuslav Martinů.
11. Darmstadt, The Polish School, Pierre Boulez, Olivier Messiaen.
12. American music, mininmalism (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:
- participation and regular attendance at lectures and classes
- completion of the semester paper
- completion of the final test and oral exam
During the semester indepedent reading of the recommended literature, listenings to music, concert and opera performance (also filmed performances) attendance is required, as well as participation in discussion in lectures and classes. A written and oral exam is required. The overall grade is comprised of 30% for lecture and class attendance and participation, 30% for the written section (final exam at the end of the semester - listening and written) and 40% for the oral exam.
The conditions for successful completion of the course: Lecture and class participation, completion and presentation of the class paper and completion of on-going tests.
- Course web page:
- Note:
- Schedule for winter semester 2016/2017:
- The schedule has not yet been prepared
- Schedule for summer 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 Ivan RUML Učebna
Karlova 26, Praha 1přednášková par. 1 - The subject is a part of the following study plans: