SUSK_06 Chapters from Music History II.

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Vladimír Maňas, Ph.D. (lecturer), PhDr. Dagmar Koudelková (deputy)
Mgr. Jan Špaček (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Vladimír Maňas, Ph.D.
Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Ing. Alena Albíniová
Supplier department: Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Prerequisites (in Czech)
SUSK_05 Chapters from Music History I.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields 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.
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course students will be able to:
Define the basic musical terms
Explain the relations of individual musical forms
Formulate and explain period opinions on art and music in the 19th and 20th centuries
Interpret texts by Hanslick, Wagner, Helfert and Stravinsky
Analyse works by Bach, Beethoven, Dvořák, Mahler, Stravinsky, Shostakovich
Characterize creative poetics by leading composers
Syllabus
  • 1. Johann Sebastian Bach
  • 2. Horizontal aspect of a musical work (Helfert), polyphony, counterpoint
  • 3. Musical forms
  • 4. Music theory: intervals, scales, key signature, tuning, aliquot/partial tones, rhythm
  • 5. Czech music emigration
  • 6. Mannheimer Schule
  • 7. Classical style: sonata forms (Beethoven)
  • 8. Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven
  • 9. Romanticism: stages, selected composers, national schools (Russia, Germany...), programme music (Hanslick)
  • 10. Sacred music: great masses (Bach, Beethoven, Berlioz)
  • 11. Programme symphony (Berlioz, Mahler, Messiaen)
  • 12. Opera (Italian, French)
  • 13. Second Viennese School (Schönberg, Webern, Berg)
  • 14. Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Shostakovich
  • 15. Smetana (national opera), Dvořák (synthesis of styles), Janáček (operas)
Literature
    recommended 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
Teaching methods
Lectures, seminars, readings, excursion, theoretical preparations
Assessment methods
Lectures consist of two school-hours four times a semester. 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)
The course is taught once in two years.
The course is taught: in blocks.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 8 hodin výuka, 8 hodin konzultace.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2021, Spring 2023.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2025, recent)
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