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Course: Music from 20th Century

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Course title Music from 20th Century
Course code KHK/HOD
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminar
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study 3
Semester Winter
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
Program subject after weeks: 1. Basic terms of music of the 20th century. (Tonality, atonality, modality, polytonality, thematic and atematický style). Charles Ives. 2. The first decade of the 20th century. Expressionism in music. Second Viennese School. Les Six. 3rd Bartók, Kodály, Janacek, Martinu. 4th Stravinsky and Prokofiev. 5th Shostakovich, Hindemith., Orff 6th Gershwin and other American composers of the 20th century. (Copland, Cage, Crumb and others) 7. A status after 1945. timbre music - its means of expression and personality. 8th Electroacoustic, concrete and synthetic music and her personality. 9th characteristics and personalities New simplicity. 10. Significant compositional school and personality after r. 1945 - French School (Messiaen, Boulez and more) 11th Polish school after r. 1945 (Lutoslawski, Penderecki, Gorecki, Baird and others) 12. Other significant compositional personality of the second half of the 20th century. - Stockhausen, Xenakis, Schnitke, Pärt, Gubaidulina and more 13.Česká music in the context of globalization 2.pol.20.stol. (Kabeláč, Eben, Sommer, Havelka,

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture with practical applications, Textual studies
  • Individual project (40) - 26 hours per semester
  • Contact hours - 26 hours per semester
prerequisite
Knowledge
Basic knowledge of music history.
learning outcomes
Student will orient in modern and postmodern trends of artificial music of the 20th and 21st century. On the basis of listening or studying of score student can distinguish compositional style and can characterize it. He can enumerate the most important composers of music of that period, pointing to their artistic value. He can expertly critical pose of unknown contemporary composition.
teaching methods
Textual studies
Interactive lecture
assessment methods
Test
Individual presentation at a seminar
Recommended literature
  • Bezděk Jiří. Soudobá hudba před tabulí. Plzeň, 2008. ISBN 978-80-7043-669.
  • Bláha. Výtvarné umění a hudba. I, Tvar, prostor a čas. Praha, 2012. ISBN 978-80-87258-69.
  • HRČKOVÁ, N. Dějiny hudby VI: Hudba 20. století.. Praha: Ikar, 2006. ISBN 80-249-0808-5.
  • Schenk P. Allgemeine Musiklehre.. Leipzig: Friedrich Hoffmeister,, 1956.
  • 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, Miloš. Soudobá hudba 20. století. České Budějovice : Pedagogická fakulta Jihočeské univerzity, 1997. ISBN 80-7040-090-0.


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University of West Bohemia, date of update: 26.07.2024 23:53. Data created for academic year 2024/2025