Comprehensive analysis of musical works

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Code Completion Credits Range Language Instruction Semester
180KAHD Z 10 BLOK Czech winter and summer

Subject guarantor

Jan VIČAR

Name of lecturer(s)

Jan VIČAR

Learning outcomes of the course unit

  1. To acquaint doctoral candidates with comprehensive music piece analysis.
  2. To contribute to the expansion of the research parameters in the analytical section of the dissertation.

Mode of study

Instruction, moderated discussion, discussions, composition analysis, writings analysis.

Prerequisites and co-requisites

No elective requirements

Course contents

Completion and presentation of a paper on an agreed topic related to the topic of the dissertation. Completion of a topically related analytical study of 10-20 standard pages (not including footnotes and appendices). The study should contain the formal requirements for a research writing and offered for publication in the music theory periodical Ziva Hudba (AMU Praha publisher) or in another research periodical.

Recommended or required reading

Miloš HONS: Hudební analýza, Praha 2010

Karel JANEČEK: Tektonika, Praha 1968

Jaroslav JIRÁNEK: Úvod do historie hudební analýzy a teorie sémantické hudební analýzy, Praha 1991

Ctirad KOHOUTEK: Hudební kompozice, Praha 1989

Vladimír TICHÝ: Úvod do studia hudební kinetiky, Praha 2002

Jaroslav ZICH: Kapitoly a studie z hudební estetiky, Praha 1975

Assessment methods and criteria

Credit is awarded based on the presenation of a paper and completion of a topically related semester paper which is to be in the form of a scientific study of 10-20 standard pages (footnotes and appendices). The exam is an oral interview verifying the knowledge of the given topic and recommeded literature.

Further information

No schedule has been prepared for this course

The subject is a part of the following study plans