MUB_B035 Introduction to Music Museology

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Bc. Miloš Zapletal, Ph.D. (lecturer), doc. Mgr. Otakar Kirsch, Ph.D. (deputy)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Otakar Kirsch, Ph.D.
Department of Archaeology and Museology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Miriam Molnárová
Supplier department: Department of Archaeology and Museology – Faculty of Arts
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
there are 16 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
Course objectives
This course provides an introductory insight into music museology. In this case, musical museology is conceived as a special museology studying the theoretical, historical and functional aspects of the museum phenomenon in the field of music culture.
Learning outcomes
After completing the course, the student will be able to: - define musical museology in terms of its subject, methods, goals and terminology, as well as in terms of its position in scientific systematics (especially in relation to general museology, musicology, archival science, library science); - use basic theoretical tools to analyze the music-museum phenomenon; - put knowledge from the history of the music-museum phenomenon into the context of the history of museums, archives, librarianship, cultural heritage preservation and cultural history; - orient him-/her-self in the structure of recent musical museology.
Syllabus
  • 1) Music museology: subject, method, goal, position in scientific systematics 2) Basic concepts of music museology 3) Musealization of musicalia and its reflection 1 4) Musealization of musicalia and its reflection 2 5) Musealization of musicalia and its reflection 3 6) Musealization of musical instruments 1 7) Musealization of musical instruments 2 8) Monographic music museums 9) Current structure of music museums in the Czech Republic 10) The current structure of music museums in the world
Literature
    required literature
  • ZAPLETAL, Miloš. Hudebně-muzeologické myšlení od 18. století do roku 1945. Opava: Filozoficko-přírodovědecká fakulta, Slezská univerzita v Opavě, 2022.
  • SADIE, Julie Anne – Stanley SADIE. Calling on the Composer: A Guide to European Composer Houses and Museums. New Haven – London: Yale University Press, 2005.
  • KALINAYOVÁ-BARTOVÁ, Jana. Úvod do hudobnej muzeológie. Bratislava: KHV FiF UK, 2010.
    recommended literature
  • RACEK, Jan. Organisace a vědecké poslání moderního hudebního archivu. I. díl. Brno: Zemské museum, 1937.
  • ZAPLETAL, Miloš. Hudebně-muzejní prezentace z pohledu Vladimíra Helferta. Opus musicum 2021, vol. 53, no. 4, pp. 28–51.
  • ZAPLETAL, Miloš. Helfert’s Theory of a Music Museum ("Musical Archive") / Helfertova teorie hudebního muzea ("hudebního archivu"). Musicalia 2019, vol. 11, no. 1–2, pp. 6–45.
  • ZAPLETAL, Miloš. Bibliografie české hudební muzeologie. Hudební věda 2020, vol. 57, no. 1, pp. 95–121.
  • BOŽENEK, Karel – Karel STEINMETZ – Jan MAZUREK. Hudba v rakouském/českém Slezsku v minulosti i přítomnosti. Ostrava: Ostravská univerzita, 2018.
  • ZAPLETAL, Miloš. Bibliografie slovenské hudební muzeologie. Acta historica Universitatis Silensianae Opaviensis 2020, vol. 13, pp. 205–217.
  • HELFERT, Vladimír. Státní hudebně-historický ústav. Praha: Umělecká beseda, 1945.
  • STRÁNSKÝ, Zbyněk Zbyslav. Hudba v regionálních muzeích. Zprávy Muzea Vyškovska 1969, no. 78, pp. 26–32.
  • MEYER, Andreas (ed.). Musikaustellungen: Intention, Realisierung, Interpretation. Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 2018.
  • [BOŽENEK, Karel]. Hudební muzeum. In: Jiří Fukač – Petr Macek – Jiří Vysloužil (edd.). Slovník české hudební kultury. Praha: Editio Supraphon, 1997, pp. 320–321.
  • ZAPLETAL, Miloš. Muzea skladatelů a jejich muzeologická reflexe. In: Soňa Šváčová (ed.). Museologica literaria 2019. Banská Bystrica: Zväz múzeí na Slovensku, 2020, pp. 211–223.
Teaching methods
lectures, readings, discussions
Assessment methods
final debate/colloquium
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught once in two years.
The course is taught: in blocks.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2023.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2025, recent)
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