| Course title | 20th-Century Music 2 |
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| Course code | KMU/D20U2 |
| Organizational form of instruction | Lecture + Seminar |
| Level of course | Bachelor |
| Year of study | not specified |
| Semester | Summer |
| Number of ECTS credits | 3 |
| Language of instruction | Czech |
| Status of course | Compulsory-optional |
| Form of instruction | Face-to-face |
| Work placements | This is not an internship |
| Recommended optional programme components | None |
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| Course content |
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1. The Year 1945 as the "Zero Hour" of New Music 2. Musical Pluralism after 1945: Tradition, Modernism, and the Avant-Garde 3. Olivier Messiaen and the Foundations of European Serialism 4. Integral Serialism: Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen 5. Musique Concr?te, Electronic Music, and Electroacoustic Music 6. John Cage and American Experimental Music 7. Aleatoricism, Indeterminacy, and Open Form in European Music 8. New Approaches to the Voice, Speech, and Instrumental Sound 9. Timbre-Based Music, Sonorism, and Micropolyphony 10. Exoticism, Meditation, and the Beginnings of Musical Minimalism 11. Repetitive Techniques: Steve Reich and Philip Glass 12. Postmodernism, Polystylism, and New Returns to Tradition
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| Learning activities and teaching methods |
Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook)
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| Learning outcomes |
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The course focuses on the development and important figures in music after the Second World War. Special attention will be paid to the development of musical thinking and the aesthetic and cultural context. Lectures will especially cover the following styles: serialism, aleatoricism and indeterminacy, timbre music, minimalism, postmodernism.
After completing the course students will be able to understand and navigate themselves in the history of music of the second half of the 20th Century. Students will be able to use their gained knowledge and skills to compare the music of this period on the axiological and stylistic level. They will be able to match a suitable repertoire of the 20th Century music with the dramaturgy of Philharmonics, the Opera houses and the Chamber musicians or to establish the dramaturgy of contemporary music festival. |
| Prerequisites |
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Approval of the conditional courses KMU/PDEH1, KMU/PDEH2, KMU/H20-1.
KMU/D20U1 ----- or ----- KMU/D20-1 ----- or ----- KMU/H20-1 |
| Assessment methods and criteria |
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Mark, Written exam
1. Handing in and presenting a paper on the topic: A profile of a contemporary Czech composer of your choice (personality: Petr Eben, Jan Klusák, Jan Novák, Svatopluk Havelka, Josef Berg, Alois Piňos, Pavel Blatný, Jan Rychlík, Miloslav Kabeláč, Marek Kopelent, Karel Husa, Miloš Ištváň, Ivan Kurz, Ctirad Kohoutek, Jiří Komorous aj.), selection of representative works of the personality and their presentation. 2. Completion of a listening test. List of compositions: P. Boulez: Polyphonie X, Poésie pour pouvoir, Structures I, Le marteau sans maître, Improvisations sur Mallarmé P. Schaffer, P. Henry: Spectacle Lyrique Orphée 53 K. Stockhausen: Gruppen für drei Orchester, Gesang der Junglinge, Gruppen, Kontakte für elektronische Klänge, Klavier und Schlagzeug oder für elektronische Klänge allein, Zyklus für einen Schlagzeuger, Klavierstück XI, Mantra, Stimmung K. Penderecki: Anaklasis, Thren, Lukášovy Pašije G. Ligeti: Atmosph?res, Nouvelles Aventures, Lontano, Continuum W. Lutoslawsky: Smuteční hudba, Benátské hry J. Cage: Music of Changes, Sonatas and Interludes, Concerto for Prepared Piano and Chamber Orchestra L. Dallapicola: Canti di prigionia O. Messiaen: Mode de valeurs et d´intensités, Turangalila Symphony, Catalogue d'oiseaux, Quatuor pour la fin du temps S. Reich: It's Gonna Rain, Come Out, Piano Phase, Violin Phase, Drumming, Clapping Music Benjamin Britten Peter Grimes P. Glass: Einstein on the Beach, Powaqatsi T. Riley: Dorian Reeds, In C, Persian Surgery Dervishes G. Scelsi: Tre pezzi L. Nono: Il canto sospezo, Fragmente-Stille, An Diotima M. Kagel: Anagrama L. Berio: Sinfonia |
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| Study plans that include the course |
| Faculty | Study plan (Version) | Category of Branch/Specialization | Recommended semester | |
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| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Science of Arts (2026) | Category: Theory and history of arts | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: Summer |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Science of Arts (2019) | Category: Theory and history of arts | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: Summer |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Science of Arts (2024) | Category: Theory and history of arts | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: Summer |