FF:ETBB65 Ethnomusicology - Course Information

ETBB65 Introduction to Ethnomusicology

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2013

Extent and Intensity

2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).

Teacher(s)

Guaranteed by

Timetable

each odd Monday 8:20–9:55 J31

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

Course objectives

At the end of the course students should be able to interpret basic topics of Czech and European ethnomusicology.

Syllabus

history of etnomusicological research in Czech lands, the collecting and collectors of folk songs, institutions and editorial work, methods and techniques used in field research, audio and audiovisual documentation, cataloguing texts and tunes of folk songs, theory of folk songs, instruments used in performing folk music, types of music bands, types and genres of songs, contemporary melodiousness and song repertoire composition, folk song as a source of inspiration, popularization, second existence of folk song, folklorism

Literature

Hudební věda : historie a teorie oboru, jeho světový a český vývoj. Edited by Vladimír Lébl - Ivan Poledňák. 1. vyd. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1988, s. 653-103. URL info
Slovník české hudební kultury. Edited by Jiří Fukač - Jiří Vysloužil - Petr Macek. 1. vyd. Praha: Editio Supraphon, 1997, 1035 s. ISBN 80-7058-462-9. info
Lidová kultura : národopisná encyklopedie Čech, Moravy a Slezska. Edited by Stanislav Brouček - Richard Jeřábek - Dušan Holý - Václav Hubing. Vydání první. Praha: Etnologický ústav Akademie věd České republiky, v.v.i., v Praze a Ústav evropské etnologie Filozofické fakulty Masarykovy univerzity v Brně v nakladatelství Mladá fronta, 2007, 284 stran. ISBN 9788020414502. info

Teaching methods

lectures, reading

Assessment methods

written examination

Language of instruction

Czech