VH_735 Introduction to Organology

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2010
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Petr Kalina, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Jana Perutková, Ph.D.
Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Vlasta Taranzová
Timetable
Mon 13:20–14:55 J21
Prerequisites (in Czech)
VH_07 Acoustics of Music || VHK_07 Acoustics of Music
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
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Course objectives
The student will get the ability to orientate himself among historical and systematic aspects of scientific approach to the musical instruments. He will be able to define organology as a discipline of science, characterize individual phases of development of cognitive reflexions of the problematics of musical instruments, enumerate individual aspects of the acoustic system of musical instruments, describe patterns of the directional characteristics of sound emission of musical instrumetns. Furthermore, the student will get the ability to orientate himself in the problematics of historical development of individual instrument types, he will be able to characterize the most important organological terms and define ethnoorganology as an organological subdiscipline including the characteristics of its specific methods.
Syllabus
  • Organology as a musocological discipline (subject field, aims and methodolotgy of the subject, complex organological picture of a musical instrument, development of cognitive reflexions of the problematics of musical instruments, basic organological literature).
  • Systematics of musical instruments.
  • Chordophones from the systematical and historical aspect.
  • Aerophones from the systematical and historical aspect.
  • Membranophones and idiophones from the systematical and historical aspect.
  • Ethnoorganology (definition of the subject, specifics of the methodology).
Literature
  • HAUSNER, Milan. Duševně nemocný mezi námi. Vyd. 4. Praha: Avicenum, 1981, 126 s. URL info
  • KURFURST, Pavel. Hudební nástroje. 1st ed. Praha: TOGGA, 2002, 1168 pp. ISBN 80-902912-1-X. info
  • 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. 351-642. URL info
  • MODR, Antonín. Hudební nástroje. 5. vyd., v SHV 1. Praha: Státní hudební nakladatelství, 1961, 301 s. info
  • HUTTER, Josef. Hudební nástroje. Vyd. 1. Praha: František Novák, 1945, 174 s. URL info
  • SACHS, Curt. Handbuch der Musikinstrumentenkunde. 2., durchgesehene Aufl. Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1930, 419 s. info
Teaching methods
lectures, presentation, class discussion
Assessment methods
presentation, 70% attendance, written examination
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2017, Autumn 2019.
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