FF:VH_06 Counterpoint - Course Information
VH_06 Counterpoint
Faculty of ArtsAutumn 2016
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/1/0. 3 credit(s) (plus 1 credit for an exam). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
- Teacher(s)
- prof. PhDr. Miloš Štědroň, CSc. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- doc. Mgr. Vladimír Maňas, Ph.D.
Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Alena Taranzová
Supplier department: Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts - Prerequisites (in Czech)
- VH_04 Elements of Music Theory
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 75 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/75, only registered: 0/75 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- there are 8 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
- Course objectives
- Students will be acquainted with the specificities of vocal and instrumental polyphonies in the renaissance and baroque music. Basic techniques: imitation, proportion, modality etc. Basic forms: canon, motet, madrigal, passacaglia, fugue etc.
- Syllabus
- Introduction to counterpoint: basic terminology
- Prerequisites: intervals and modes - their classification
- Techniques of the cantus firmus: 1:1, 2:1, 4:1, 3:1, 6:1 and syncopic counterpoint
- Imitation techniques: typology
- Contrapuntal figures
- Instrumental techniques: free and reversed counterpoint
- Fugue - analysis and exemplification of the techniques
- Literature
- required literature
- HŮLA, Zdeněk: Nauka o kontrapunktu (Praha, Editio Supraphon 1985).
- ZARLINO, Gioseffo: The Art of Counterpoint (anglický překlad III. dílu spisu Le Institutioni Harmoniche 1558; 2. vyd., Londýn 1976).
- FUX, Johann Joseph: Gradus ad Parnassum (Vídeň 1725).
- recommended literature
- ŠÍN, Otakar: Nauka o kontrapunktu, imitaci a fuze (Praha 1936).
- SIMPSON, Christopher: A Compendium of Practical Music in Five Parts (druhé vydání 1667, reprint Oxford 1970).
- MARPURG, Friedrich Wilhelm: Handbuch bey dem Generalbasse und der Composition (sv. I–III, 1755–58).
- MORLEY, Thomas: An Plain and Easy Introduction to Practical Music (London 1597, reprint London 1952).
- LA MOTTE, Diether de. Kontrapunkt : ein Lese- und Arbeitsbuch. 1. Aufl. Leipzig: VEB Deutscher Verlag für Musik, 1985, 374 s. info
- Der freie Satz (Variant.) : Kontrapunkt und Fuge im freien (modernen) Tonsatz einschließlich Chorkomposition. info
- Teaching methods
- lectures, homeworks with materials in the e-learning university system, drills,
- Assessment methods
- Written test (examination consisting of 5 exercises aimed at testing the essential skills in creating and analysing counterpoint).
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- The course is taught once in two years.
The course is taught: every week.
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2016, recent)
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