Composition Technique Fundamentals 1
| Code | Completion | Credits | Range | Language Instruction | Semester |
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| 186ZST1 | Z | 1 | 1T | Czech | winter |
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Learning outcomes of the course unit
Exercises with the aim to expand, improve and develop composition skills in working with music.
Mode of study
Students are gradually introduced to the fundamentals of composition technique. For each presented and explained problem, the instructor assigns the creation of a small exercise - etude. Generally applied methods will be gradually discussed: tectonic exercises, basic instrumentation exercises. Also to be developed is the practice of assignements: tone material organization in a dodecaphonic exercise, horizontal and vertical tone organization, contemporary modality exercises, meter-rhythmic exercises, creating a tectonic structure and etc...
Prerequisites and co-requisites
Written completion of a composition etudes according to instructor assignment.
Course contents
Exercises in composition techniques for non-composers. General tectonic exercises, basic instrumentation exercises, tone material organization in dodecaphonics, horizontal and veritical tone organization, exercises in new era modalities, meter-rhythmic exercises, creation of tectonic structures from assignement and individual level of student maturity
Recommended or required reading
HŮLA, Zdeněk: Nauka o harmonii, SNKLU, Praha 1956
HŮLA, Zdeněk: Nauka o kontrapunktu. Editio Supraphon, Praha 1985
IŠTVAN, Miloslav: Metoda montáže izolovaných prvků v hudbě, Panton Praha 1973
JANEČEK, Karel: Hudební formy. SNKLHU, Praha 1955
JANEČEK, Karel: Základy moderní harmonie. Nakladatelství ČSAV, Praha 1965
LOUDOVÁ, Ivana: Moderní notace a její interpretace, Nakladatelství AMU,Praha 1998
Výběr staví ze sborníků Nové cesty hudby, Sborník studií o novodobých skladebných směrech a vědeckých pohledech na hudbu, SVH, Praha 1964, Editio Supraphon, Praha ? Bratislava 1970
Orchestrace jako proces, sborník studií Katedry skladby HAMU, Praha 2010
RYCHLÍK, Jan, Moderní Instrumentace, Panton Praha 1968
Assessment methods and criteria
Credit is awarded based on student activity and results from the completed etude assignment.
Note
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Schedule for winter semester 2018/2019:
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| Date | Day | Time | Tutor | Location | Notes | No. of paralel |
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| Wed | 09:25–10:10 | Tomáš REINDL | Učebna 2057 Lichenštejnský palác |
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Schedule for summer semester 2018/2019:
The schedule has not yet been prepared
The subject is a part of the following study plans
- Music Directing (Bc) (required subject with the possibility of repeat registration)
- Sound Design (Bc) (optional subject)
- Sound Design (Mg) (optional subject)
- Music Theory (Bc) (required subject with the possibility of repeat registration)