HV_714a Alois Hába and his school

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2025

The course is not taught in Spring 2025

Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 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
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 Life and Work of Alois Hába (1893-1973). Alois Hába is characterised as one of the leading protagonists of the Central European inter-war avant-garde that moved between Vienna, Berlin and Prague. In the specific context of Czech music he likewise has the reputation of an exemplary innovator but is considered to have been strongly rooted in tradition as well. Hába is known primarily as a tireless propagator of microtonal and athematic music, for which his own term was “liberated music”. In this music he added more subtle quarter-, fifth- and sixth-tone intervals to the semitone system and abandoned up traditional treatment of motifs. Hába was a tireless organiser who helped to ensure that works of new music were regularly presented in Prague concert halls. Many of Hába’s pieces provoked a great deal of controversy in their time, and the listener today will certainly be able to judge his output (103 opuses) more objectively. Today we can see Hába’s creative impulses against the background of a broader pattern of cultural history, in which shorter periods of destruction of existing artistic norms always give way to periods of creative synthesis.
Learning outcomes
After completing the subject, the student will be better oriented in the situation of Czech music in the first half of the 20th century. It also clarifies the situation among the composers who belong to the generation of interwar new music. Questions of musical style and aesthetic orientation of composers and audiences will also be discussed. Navrhněte úpravu O Překladači GoogleKomunitaPro mobily O GoogluOchrana soukromí a smluvní podmínkyNápovědaOdeslat zpětnou vazbu
Syllabus
  • Alois Hába and Háb's School
  • Franz Schreker
  • Arnold Schönberg and Hans Eisler
  • ISCM
  • atheism, microtonality, tonality (tonal center)
  • socialist realism
  • opera
Literature
    required literature
  • SPURNÝ, Lubomír and Jiří VYSLOUŽIL. Alois Hába: A Catalogue of the Music and Writings. Prague: Koniasch Latin Press, 2010, 271 pp. ISBN 978-80-86791-78-4. info
  • REITTEREROVÁ, Vlasta and Lubomír SPURNÝ. Alois Hába. In HEISTER, Hans-Werner and Walter-Wolfgang SPARRER. Komponisten der Gegenwart. München: Richard Boorberg Verlag, 2009, p. 1 - 50. Komponisten der Gegenwart. ISBN 978-3-86916-011-5. info
  • Alois Hába (1893-1973) : sborník k životu a dílu skladatele. Edited by Jiří Vysloužil. Vizovice: Lípa - A.J. Rychlík, 1993, 139 s. ISBN 802850301. info
    recommended literature
  • SPURNÝ, Lubomír and Vlasta REITTEREROVÁ. Alois Hába (1893-1973): mezi tradicí a inovací (Alois Hába (1893-1973): between tradition and innovation). 1. vyd. Praha: Koniasch Latin Press, 2014, 256 pp. ISBN 978-80-87773-08-6. info
  • VYSLOUŽIL, Jiří. Musikgeschichte Mährens und Mährisch-Schlesiens vom Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts bis zum Jahr 1945 (Music History of the Moravia and the Moravian-Silesia from the late 18th century until the year 1945). Wien: Böhlau Verlag, 2014, 293 pp. Wiener Schriften zur Stilkunde und Aufführungspraxis ; Sonderband 7. ISBN 978-3-205-79528-5. info
  • REITTEREROVÁ, Vlasta. Alois Hába a Viktor Ullmann - doteky života a díla (Alois Hába und Viktor Ullmann - the touchs of their life and work). Hudební věda. Praha: Akademie věd ČR, 1994, vol. 31, No 1, p. 3-24. ISSN 0018-7003. info
Teaching methods
lectures
Assessment methods
oral examination
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught only once.
The course is taught: every week.
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