FF:VH_806a Music History VI A - Course Information
VH_806a Music History in Outline VI A
Faculty of ArtsSpring 2019
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/1/0. 3 credit(s) (plus 1 credit for an exam). Recommended Type of Completion: k (colloquium). Other types of completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. PhDr. Mikuláš Bek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. PhDr. Martin Flašar, Ph.D. (lecturer)
prof. PhDr. Lubomír Spurný, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. Mgr. Vladimír Maňas, Ph.D. (assistant) - Guaranteed by
- doc. Mgr. Vladimír Maňas, Ph.D.
Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Jan Karafiát
Supplier department: Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts - Timetable
- Tue 10:00–11:40 N43
- Prerequisites
- Preliminary requirements include the basic understanding of harmony and musical form.
- 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
- Musicology (programme FF, B-HS)
- Musicology (programme FF, B-OT) (2)
- Theory and Practice of Ancient Music (programme FF, B-OT)
- Course objectives
- At the end of this course, the students should be able to:
memorize the tendencies and periods of historical development of the 20th-century music;
recognise aurally the main musical styles of the 20th century music;
interrelate the stylistic and compositional developments to other artistic and cultural phenomena;
characterise the individual poetics of leading composers;
apply the instruments of musis theory in the historical analysis of particular works and styles;
re-construct historical connections in the development of the musical language of the 20th century. - Syllabus
- Modern music in Germany and Central Europe
- French impressionism and symbolism
- Russian modern music
- Expressionism and twelve-tone music
- Neo-classicism and "Neue Sachlichkeit"
- Neo-folklorism
- American modernism
- Traditionalists before 1945
- Socialist realism and music
- Serialism and its opponents
- American avant-garde and radical music
- Aleatory and the music of colours in Europe
- Music and post-modernism
- Literature
- required literature
- ROSS, Alex. Zbývá jen hluk : naslouchání dvacátému století. Translated by Petr Kopet. Vyd. 1. Praha: Dokořán, 2011, 578 s. ISBN 9788073633974. info
- WHITTALL, Arnold. Musical composition in the twentieth century. 1st publ. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999, vi, 419 s. ISBN 0-19-816684-2. info
- Anthology of twentieth-century music. Edited by Robert P. Morgan. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1991, xii, 452. ISBN 0393952843. info
- MORGAN, Robert P. Twentieth-century music : a history of musical style in modern Europe and America. 1st ed. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1991, xvii, 554. ISBN 0-393-95272-X. info
- Skladatelé o hudební poetice 20. století : Copland, Stravinskij, Schoenberg, Berg, Bartók, Martinů, Prokofjev, Honegger, Šostakovič. Edited by Ivan Vojtěch. Vydání první. Praha: Československý spisovatel, 1960, 192 s. info
- recommended literature
- Postmoderní hudba? : německá diskuse na sklonku 20. století. Edited by Vít Zouhar. 1. vyd. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci, 2004, 257 s. ISBN 8024409739. info
- NYMAN, Michael. Experimental music : Cage and beyond. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001, xx, 196. ISBN 0521653835. info
- DANUSER, Hermann. Neues Handbuch der Musikwissenschaft. Lizenzausg. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1997, vi, 465. info
- DAHLHAUS, Carl. Schoenberg and the new music. Translated by Derrick Puffett - Alfred Clayton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990, viii, 305. ISBN 0521337836. info
- DAHLHAUS, Carl. Schönberg und andere : gesammelte Aufsätze zur Neuen Musik. Edited by Hans Oesch. Mainz: Schott, 1978, 412 s. ISBN 3795721687. info
- SCHAEFFER, Pierre. Konkrétní hudba. Přeložil František Tvrdý. Praha: Editio Supraphon, 1971. info
- LÉBL, Vladimír. Elektronická hudba. 1. vyd. Praha: Státní hudební vydavatelství, 1966, 97 pp. info
- Teaching methods
- Lectures, readings, drills, homeworks, group projects.
- Assessment methods
- Written test, oral exam.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- Study Materials
Information on completion of the course: Ukončení formou zkoušky je určeno jednooborovým studentům.
The course is taught once in two years.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2019, recent)
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