HV_628 Sonata form

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2023
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
MgA. Mgr. Patrik Červák (lecturer)
doc. Mgr. Vladimír Maňas, Ph.D. (assistant)
prof. PhDr. Jana Perutková, Ph.D. (alternate examiner)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Jana Perutková, Ph.D.
Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Tue 12:00–13:40 N21, except Tue 14. 11.
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
The course focuses on the origin and development of the most sophisticated musical form of Western civilization - the sonata form - in the 18th century and its musical and formal transformation in the course of the following centuries.
Learning outcomes
Upon completion of the course, the student will know both basic and advanced principles of sonata form. The student will also be able to analyze it rigorously and understand the changes it has undergone in individual composers and in specific epochs.
Syllabus
  • 1. Basic formative principles and their analysis - half-sentence, sentence, period, double period, small and large two-part and three-part form 2. Sonata vs. cantata; early principle of three parts - aria da capo; early sonatas and Domenico Scarlatti 3. Terminological differentiation: sonata - sonata form - sonata cycle; early classicism and the establishment of the sonata form 4. Sonata form as a classical template - Haydn and early Mozart 5. The beginning of the end of schematism: late Mozart and early Beethoven 6. The completion of the schema and its deconstruction: early and high Ludwig van Beethoven 6. Late Beethoven, Franz Schubert's sonatas 7. Schubertian fantasy as a transition between sonata form and romantic "formlessness" 8. Neo-Romanticism vs. Classical-Romantic synthesis - Symphonic poems by Liszt and Smetana vs. sonatas and symphonies by Brahms and Dvořák 9. The turn of the 19th and 20th centuries and the restoration of the sonata form - sonatas by Koechlin, Fauré and Debussy; neoclassicism 10. Sonata form in the 20th century: Stravinsky, Ravel, Satie, Poulenc 11. Sonata form in the 20th century: Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Hindemith and others 12. Other possibilities of sonata form in the 20th and 21st centuries? Translated with DeepL.com (free version)
Literature
    recommended literature
  • Charles Rosen: Sonata forms. New York 1980
Teaching methods
Interactive seminar and frequent music analysis
Assessment methods
1. Seminar paper in the form of a thorough analysis of a selected sonata form 2. oral colloquium with discussion of the material covered and a selected musical example
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
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