Organ Literature and History 2

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Code Completion Credits Range Language Instruction Semester
104DVA2 Z 2 1T Czech summer

Subject guarantor

Josef POPELKA

Name of lecturer(s)

Josef POPELKA

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Acquisition of a basic overview of development of the organ from antiquity to modern times and a tracing of all the important development periods of organ music from the Middle-ages to the works of contemporary composers.

Mode of study

Instruction

Prerequisites and co-requisites

None

Course contents

This course follows the development of the organ from antiquity through the middle-ages, Gothic and Renaissance. Additionally it follows the development of the instrument in individual areas (Italy, Southern Germany, Northern Germany, The Netherlands, Spain, France and Bohemia).

Recommended or required reading

Šlechta, Milan: Dějiny varhan a varhanní hudby, Praha 1985

Klinda, Ferdinand: Organ v kultúre dvoch tisícročí, Bratislava 2000

Recommended literature:

Beckmann, Klaus: Repertorium Orgelmusik, Mainz 1999

Kraus, Eberhard: Orgeln und Orgelmusik, Regensburg 1972

Frotscher, Gotthold: Geschichte des Orgelspiels und der Orgelkunst, Berlin 1966

Assessment methods and criteria

Lecture participation

Note

None

Schedule for winter semester 2018/2019:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2018/2019:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans