US_44cv Chapters from Music History II.

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2015
Extent and Intensity
0/2. 0 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Jan Špaček (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Dagmar Koudelková
Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Alena Taranzová
Supplier department: Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Tue 12:30–14:05 N51
Prerequisites (in Czech)
US_43 Chapters from Music History I. && NOW( US_44 Chapters from Music History II )
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
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. At the end of the course students will be able to:
Define the basic musical terms
Explain the relations of individual musical forms
Formulate opinions on art and music in the 19th and 20th centuries
Interpret texts by Hanslick, Wagner, Stravinsky
Analyse works by Bach, Beethoven, Dvořák, Mahler, Stravinsky, Shostakovich
Characterize creative poetics by leading composers
Syllabus
  • Johann Sebastian Bach - Horizontal aspect of a musical work (Helfert), polyphony, counterpoint - Musical forms - Music theory: intervals, scales, key signature, tuning, aliquot/partial tones, rhythm - Czech music emigration - Mannheimer Schule - Classical style: sonata forms (Beethoven) - Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven - Romanticism: stages, selected composers, national schools (Russia, Germany...), programme music (Hanslick) - Sacred music: great masses (Bach, Beethoven, Berlioz) - Programme symphony (Berlioz, Mahler, Messiaen) - Opera (Italian, French) - Second Viennese School (Schönberg, Webern, Berg) - Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Shostakovich - Smetana (national opera), Dvořák (synthesis of styles), Janáček (operas)
Literature
    required 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
  • 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
  • BUSONI, Ferruccio. Entwurf einer neuen Ästhetik der Tonkunst : (Text der zweiten Fassung von 1916). Hamburg: Karl Dieter Wagner, 1973, 64 s. ISBN 3921029163. info
    recommended literature
  • 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
  • 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 every week, plus listening. Please follow also the study materials in IS MU. Written exam lasts 90 minutes and consists of 8 discourse-like questions, listening test and an essay. 80% attendance.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022.
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