IHVp01 Music theory and an overview of the history of music

Faculty of Education
Autumn 2024
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Petr Hala, Ph.D. et Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Petr Hala, Ph.D. et Ph.D.
Department of Music – Faculty of Education
Supplier department: Department of Music – Faculty of Education
Prerequisites (in Czech)
SOUHLAS
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Introduction to music acoustics, systems of tuning. Scales - system, developement / ancient, medieval, church styles, major and minor, chromatic, pentatonic, whole tone, gypsy /. Intervals. Chords - fifth chords, seventh chords, chord changes. At the end of this course the students should be able to applicate all theoretical knowledge in practice.
Learning outcomes
The Student knows scales, intervals, chords, Italian musical terminology, is a basic overview of the history of music.
Syllabus
  • Attributes of tone; notation system - signs, transcription, keys, marks for tone quality. Scales - diatonic, chromathic, ancient church modes, whole-tone, pentatonic ones. Fourth- and fifth- system of major and minor scales. Orientation in major and minor scales, finding of characteristic intervals, construction of upper and lower basic and derivated intervals, construction of fifth-chords and their turns, construction of seventh-chords and their turns according to guitar and functional marks; construction of cadences in major and minor keys; Italian terminology (tempo, expression, dynamics and agogics).
Literature
  • e-learning: http://www.ped.muni.cz/wmus/frame.html
  • CRHA, Bedřich and Petr HALA. Technika klavírního doprovodu lidových písní. 1.vydání, 2003. Masarykova univerzita v Brně, 2003, 115 pp. ISBN 80-210-3094-1. info
  • KOFROŇ, Jaroslav. Učebnice harmonie. 10. upr. vyd. Praha: Editio Bärenreiter Praha, 2002, 178 s. ISBN 80-86385-14-0. info
  • CRHA, Bedřich, Zdeněk MAREK and Ladislav FUČÍK. Základy hudební výchovy pro posluchače studia učitelství I.stupně ZŠ (Foundations of Music Education for Students of Teaching Profession on the 1st Grade of Primary School). 4th ed. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 1998, 184 pp. ISBN 80-210-1963-8. info
  • ZENKL, Luděk. ABC hudební nauky. 4. vyd. Praha: Supraphon, 1986, 197 s. info
Teaching methods
Theoretical training and practical exercises
Assessment methods
Lecture. Credit for successfully writen test of following content: orientation in major and minor scales, finding of characteristic intervals, construction of upper and lower basic and derivated intervals, construction of fifth-chords and their turns, construction of seventh-chords and their turns according to guitar and functional marks; construction of cadences in major and minor keys; Italian terminology (tempo, expression, dynamics and agogics).
Language of instruction
Czech
Follow-Up Courses
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, autumn 2020, Autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023.
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