Introduction to Music Theory for Non-Verbal Theater 2

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Code Completion Credits Range Language Instruction Semester
109UTHN2 ZK 2 2T Czech summer

Subject guarantor

Vlastislav MATOUŠEK

Name of lecturer(s)

Vlastislav MATOUŠEK

Learning outcomes of the course unit

The study aim is to acquire a comprehensive and continual overview of individual eras in the history of music, a knowledge of biographies and works of composers and an idea of the formal form hidden under many musical composition terms

Mode of study

Presentation, commented listenings

Prerequisites and co-requisites

No requirements.

Course contents

Students are introduced to the development of music in the 20th century.

  1. Impressionism
  2. Expressionism
  3. Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Shostakovich
  4. The Paris 6
  5. Janáček, Bartók
  6. Post-war avant garde
  7. Experimental music in the USA

Recommended or required reading

Gerald Abraham: Stručné dejiny hudby, Hudobné centrum Bratislava 2003

Václav Holzknecht: Kniha o hudbě, Orbis Praha 1964

Naďa Hrčková : Dějiny hudby VI, Ikar Praha 2006

Miloš Navrátil: Dějiny hudby, Votobia Praha 2003

Michels Ulrich: Encyklopedický atlas hudby, NLN 2000

Bohuslav Vítek: Přehled dějin hudby (Faktografický souhrn), 1994

Assessment methods and criteria

Credit is awarded based on attendance, completion of the course paper and successfull completion of the oral exam.

Note

None

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Schedule for summer semester 2018/2019:

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