History and Music Theory 2

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Code Completion Credits Range Language Instruction Semester
107DTH2 exam 3 Czech summer

Subject guarantor

Ivana BAŽANTOVÁ

Name of lecturer(s)

Ivana BAŽANTOVÁ, Jiřina MAREŠOVÁ

Contents

Students are introduced to the development of European music from the Renaissance to the Classic.

  1. Renaissance: a) Five generations of the French-Walloon polyphonic schools

b) Palestrina, Lasso

  1. Baroque: a) opera

b) Instrumental music

c) Monteverdi

d) The French style

e) Bach, Haendel

  1. Classic a) early Classic

b) high Classic (Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven)

Learning outcomes

To acquire a basic overview of the development of music and it particulars and main potential of notation and function in society in the Renaissance, Baroque and Classic periods. To recognize in recorded music some pivotal periods, possibly composers in typically repeated examples.

Prerequisites and other requirements

No requirements.

Literature

Gerald Abraham: Stručné dejiny hudby, Hudobné centrum Bratislava 2003

Václav Holzknecht: Kniha o hudbě, Orbis Praha 1964

Naďa Hrčková : Dějiny hudby II, Ikar Praha 2005

Miloš Navrátil: Dějiny hudby, Votobia Praha 2003

Michels Ulrich: Encyklopedický atlas hudby, NLN 2000

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

Evaluation methods and criteria

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

Note

none

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The subject is a part of the following study plans