FF:HV_54 History of Music Theory - Course Information
HV_54 History of Music Theory
Faculty of ArtsSpring 2025
The course is not taught in Spring 2025
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/1/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- prof. PhDr. Lubomír Spurný, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- prof. PhDr. Lubomír Spurný, Ph.D.
Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Ing. Alena Albíniová
Supplier department: Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts - Prerequisites (in Czech)
- VH_39 Bachelor exam || VHK_26 Bachelor exam || SH_BZk Bachelor degree exam
- 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, N-HS)
- Musicology (programme FF, N-OT) (3)
- Course objectives
- The lecture is focused on musical theoretical concepts of music of the 18th - 20th century, to important personalities and institutions of this period.
- Learning outcomes
- Main objectives can be summarized as follows: to understand the basic teachings of music theory of 18th and 19th century.
- Syllabus
- Music theory and mathematics
- Rameau and 18th century harmonic theory
- 19th century harmonic theory
- Form
- Tonality
- Music theory as pedagogy
- Hugo Riemann: harmonic theory; Heinrich Schenker: harmonic theory and music analysis
- Ernst Kurth; August Halm; Arnold Schönberg
- Czech music theory: Otakar Šín, Karel Janeček, Karel Risinger, Jaroslav Volek, Leoš Janáček, Alois Hába
- Literature
- required literature
- Dahlhaus, Carl. Die Musiktheorie im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert, I.,II., Teil, Darmstadt 1984/89.
- Hradecký, Emil. Úvod do studia tonální harmonie, Praha 1960
- Thomas Christensen. Western Music Theory. Cambridge University Press 2002.
- Ludvová, Jitka. Česká hudební teorie novější doby 1850 - 1900. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 1989. 85 s Studie ČSAV.
- De la Motte-Haber, Helga. Musiktheorie. Laaber : Laaber-Verlag, 2005.
- Risinger, Karel. Vůdčí osobnosti české moderní hudební teorie . Praha : SHV, 1963.
- SPURNÝ, Lubomír. Heinrich Schenker (1868-1935): Kapitoly z hudební teorie a analýzy. Praha: Koniasch Latin Press, 2012.
- The Cambridge history of Western music theory. Edited by Thomas Street Christensen. First published. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, xxiii, 998. ISBN 9780521686983. info
- Česká hudební teorie 1750-1850. Edited by Jitka Ludvová. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 1985, 119 s. info
- recommended literature
- SPURNÝ, Lubomír. Heinrich Schenker - dávný neznámý. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého - vydavatelství, 2000, 186 pp. ISBN 80-244-0055-3. info
- MEYER, Leonard B. Style and music : theory, history, and ideology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996, xi, 376. ISBN 9780226521527. info
- Teaching methods
- lectures
- Assessment methods
- oral exam, test
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- The course is taught once in two years.
The course is taught: every week.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2025, recent)
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