US_44 Chapters from Music History II.

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2009
Extent and Intensity
1/2. 2 credit(s) (plus 3 credits for an exam). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Jan Špaček (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Kristýna Celhofferová, Ph.D.
Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Vlasta Taranzová
Timetable
Wed 18:20–20:45 zruseno D21
Prerequisites (in Czech)
US_43 Chapters from Music History I.
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 is dedicated to selected problems of music history from 1730 on. Main objectives are to understand the problems and logic of individual phenomena.
Syllabus
  • Johann Sebastian Bach - Horizontal aspect of a musical work (Helfert), polyphony, counterpoint - Musical forms - Music theory: intervals, scales, key signature, tuning, aliquot/partial tones, rhythm - Czech music emigration - Mannheimer Schule - Classical style: sonata forms (Beethoven) - Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven - Romanticism: stages, selected composers, national schools (Russia, Germany...), programme music (Hanslick) - Sacred music: great masses (Bach, Beethoven, Berlioz) - Programme symphony (Berlioz, Mahler, Messiaen) - Opera (Italian, French) - Second Viennese School (Schönberg, Webern, Berg) - Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Shostakovich - Smetana (national opera), Dvořák (synthesis of styles), Janáček (operas)
Literature
  • MICHELS, Ulrich. Encyklopedický atlas hudby. Praha: Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, 2000. ISBN 80-7106-238-3. info
  • HELFERT, Vladimír. Periodisace dějin hudby. Příspěvek k otázce logiky hudebního vývoje. Musikologie : sborník pro hudební vědu a kritiku. Praha: Státní nakladatelství krásné literatury,, 1938, vol. 1, p. 7-26. ISSN 1802-128X. URL info
  • SMOLKA, Jaroslav. Dějiny hudby. Vyd. 1. Brno: TOGGA agency, 2001, 657 s. ISBN 80-902912-0-1. info
  • KOUBA, Jan. ABC hudebních slohů : od raného středověku k W.A. Mozartovi. 2. dopl. vyd. Praha: Supraphon, 1988, 253 s. URL info
  • PEČMAN, Rudolf. Sloh a hudba, 1600-1900 : problémy, otázky, odpovědi [Pečman, 1996]. Vyd. 2. Brno: Filozofická fakulta Masarykovy univerzity, 1996, 157 s. ISBN 80-210-1424-5. info
  • ZENKL, Luděk. ABC hudebních forem. Praha: Supraphon, 1984. info
  • ZENKL, Luděk. ABC hudební nauky. 7. rev. a dopl. vyd., v Edit. Praha: Editio Bärenreiter Praha, 2000, 202 s. ISBN 8086385019. info
  • NAVRÁTIL, Miloš. Nástin vývoje evropské hudby 20. století. Ostrava: Montanex, spol. s r.o., 1993, 189 pp. ISBN 80-85300-26-5. info
  • HANSLICK, Eduard. O hudebním krásnu : příspěvek k revizi hudební estetiky. Translated by Jaroslav Střítecký. 1. vyd. Praha: Editio Supraphon, 1973, 137 s. info
  • The New Grove dictionary of music and musicians. Edited by Stanley Sadie - John Tyrrell. 2nd ed. New York: Grove, 2001, lxvii, 912. ISBN 0195170679. info
Assessment methods
Lectures consist of three school-hours every week, these include listening. Please follow also the study materials in IS MU. Written exam lasts 90 minutes and consists of 16 discourse-like questions.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught once in two years.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2005, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022.
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