VHDS2_A Musicological seminar 2

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 10 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Lubomír Spurný, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
doc. PhDr. Mikuláš Bek, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
PhDr. Petr Kalina, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
PhDr. Petr Macek, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
doc. Mgr. Vladimír Maňas, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
prof. PhDr. Jana Perutková, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
prof. PhDr. Miloš Štědroň, CSc. (seminar tutor)
doc. PhDr. Jiří Zahrádka, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Lubomír Spurný, Ph.D.
Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Jan Karafiát
Supplier department: Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Prerequisites
Doctoral seminars are held twice a month during the autumn and spring semesters. It is obligatory for students to complete 6 semesters of these seminars. The seminars are public, accessible to students of lower study levels and general public.
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 main content of the course is a presentation of study results. Students present the results of their independent creative scientific work. An integral part of the seminars is a guided discussion on the delivered lectures and papers. Emphasis is placed on the development of individual abilities to understand, interpret and actively use the given issues in the specific field and interdisciplinary.
Learning outcomes
A successful graduate will be able to:
- identify and summarize important features of major periods of the Western music history
- conduct independent creative professional and scientific work
- be fully capable of using field’s discourse and understand methodological problems
- orientate themselves in contemporary musicological and socio-cultural trends
Syllabus
  • Older and newer Czech and European music cultures with special attention to some topics:
  • musical activities of religious brotherhoods in Moravia in early modern period
  • music at the royal courts
  • Leoš Janáček, Alois Hába, Pavel Haas etc.
  • taste of the audience
  • relationship of the music theory and aesthetics of the 19th and 20th century
Literature
    recommended literature
  • Disciplining music : musicology and its canons. Edited by Katherine Bergeron - Philip V. Bohlman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992, xi, 220. ISBN 0226043681. 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. 653-103. URL 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, 338 s. URL info
  • Hudební věda. 2, Historie a teorie oboru, jeho světový a český vývoj : disciplíny hudební vědy : (1. část). Edited by Vladimír Lébl - Ivan Poledňák. 1. vyd. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1988, 351-642 s. info
  • KERMAN, Joseph. Contemplating music : challenges to musicology. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1985, 255 s. ISBN 0674166787. info
Teaching methods
Reproductive work with text / image / educational resource.
Interview (in terms of asking questions).
Discussion.
Assessment methods
seminar task
presentation
teamwork
Language of instruction
English
Follow-Up Courses
Further Comments
The course is taught each semester.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2024.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2025, recent)
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