Course: Music from 20th Century

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Course title Music from 20th Century
Course code KHK/H20B
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminar
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Bezděk Jiří, Prof. Mgr. MgA. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Basic terms of 20th century music. (tonality, atonality, modality, polytonality, thematic and atheistic style). Charles Ives. 2. The first decade of the 20th century. Expressionism in music. Second Viennese School. Paris Six. 3. Bartók, Kodály, Janáček, Martinů. 4. Stravinsky, Prokofiev. 5. Shostakovich, Hindemith, Orff 6. Gershwin and other American composers of the 20th century. (Copland, Cage, Crumb and others) 7. Condition after 1945. Temple music - her means of expression and personality. 8. Electroacoustic, concrete and synthetic music and its personality. 9. Characteristics and personalities of New Simplicity. 10. Significant composition schools and personalities after 1945 - French School (Messiaen, Boulez and more) 11. Polish School after 1945 (Lutoslawski, Penderecki, Gorecki, Baird and others) 12. Other important composers of the second half of the 20th century. - Stockhausen, Xenakis, Schnitke, Pärt, Gubajdulina and others 13. Czech Music in the Context of World Development 2nd half of the 20th century. (Kabeláč, Eben, Sommer, Havelka, Husa and others)

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture with practical applications, Textual studies
  • Contact hours - 26 hours per semester
  • Preparation for an examination (30-60) - 52 hours per semester
prerequisite
Knowledge
To formulate the general features of historical styles and styles and to connect with the main creative personalities.
Skills
Reproduce significant motifs or themes of musical history singly or instrumentally.
Competences
N/A
learning outcomes
Knowledge
To distinguish the styles of classical music of the 20th century.
Identify current compositional trends.
Estimate awareness and develop assessment opinions on contemporary music.
Skills
To compare the different styles of the 20th and 21st century.
Provide active insight into songs.
Competences
N/A
teaching methods
Knowledge
Lecture with visual aids
Interactive lecture
Skills
Seminar
Task-based study method
Textual studies
Competences
Skills demonstration
assessment methods
Knowledge
Test
Skills
Test
Competences
Test
Recommended literature
  • AUNER, J. Music in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries. W.W. Norton & Co. 2013.
  • BEZDĚK, J. Soudobá hudba před tabulí. Plzeň. 2008.
  • ECKSTEIN, P. Zápisky z Varšavy: Hrst dojmů z 1. mezinárodního festivalu soudobé hudby. Hudební rozhledy. Praha, 1956, IX(23), 980 -983.. Praha. ISBN 0018-6996.
  • FELIX, V. Varšavské meditace nad tvůrčí svobodou. Hudební rozhledy. Praha, 1959, XII(19), 808 - 809.. ISBN 0018-6996.
  • HRČKOVÁ, N. Dějiny hudby VI: Hudba 20. století.. Praha: Ikar, 2006. ISBN 80-249-0808-5.
  • JIRÁNEK, J. Varšavská meditace nad soudobostí. Hudební rozhledy. Praha, 1958, (20), 821-825. ISSN ..
  • REITTEREROVÁ, V. Dmitrij Šostakovič - Symfonie č. 10 e moll op. 93. Harmonie.
  • SCHNIERER, M. Český a východoevropský neofolklorismus v artificiální hudbě 20. stol. Deset studií od Janáčka k serialismu. Veverská Bitýška: Editio Moravia, 2007. ISBN 978-80-86565-06.
  • SCHNIERER, M. Soudobá hudba 20. století. České Budějovice : Pedagogická fakulta Jihočeské univerzity. 1997.
  • ZIEGELBAUEROVÁ, A. Pohledy na Varšavský podzim 1956 ? 1976 v českém dobovém tisku [online]. 1.6.2016,. 2016.


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