Course: History of European Music until 1600

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Course title History of European Music until 1600
Course code KMU/DSHK
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminar
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 6
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Spáčilová Jana, doc. Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Historical introduction, the medieval concept of "ars musica" 2. Main forms of liturgical music, the liturgical year, antiphonal and responsorial chant, psalmody, the modal system, solmisation 3. Tropes, sequences, liturgical plays 4. Secular monophonic art song 5. The emergence of polyphony, Notre Dame, ars antiqua: clausula, motet, conductus 6. Ars nova (Machaut) 7. The roots of Renaissance music: ars subtilior, Trecento, insular polyphony 8. Isorhythmic motet (Dufay) 9. Mass compositions in the Renaissance (Josquin, Ockeghem) 10. High Renaissance (Lasso, Palestrina) 11. National schools (Byrd, Dowland, Jannequin, Gallus, Monte) 12. The decline of the Renaissance style, the madrigal (Venosa, Gabrieli)

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture, Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook)
  • Attendace - 26 hours per semester
  • Homework for Teaching - 60 hours per semester
  • Preparation for the Exam - 40 hours per semester
  • Semestral Work - 21 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
The course introduces students into the special topics of earlier periods of european music history. Important informations connected to the historical, theoretical, style, functional and aesthetics contexts of monodial and polyphonic music of the ancient times, the Middle ages and the Renaissance are provided.
Acquired knowledge: - knowledge of a historical context and basic stylistic and style characteristics of individual phases of older phases of history of music - the student orientates themselves in characteristic music genres, and has a knowledge of their character Acquired skills: The student is able to orientate themselves in a noted as well as recorded music repertoire from the oldest periods to 1600. The student is prepared for an evaluation and creation of dramaturgy in musical professional institutions. The student is able to work with specialised literature, and look up relevant information about the history of music until 1600.
Prerequisites
The course is intended for upper-year students, a prerequisite is successful completion of the course "An Overview of the History of Music".

Assessment methods and criteria
Written exam, Student performance, Seminar Work

Attendance at lessons, completion of ongoing assignments.
Recommended literature
  • Ćerný Jaromír a kol. (2005). Historická antologie hudby v českých zemích do cca 1530. Praha.
  • Černý, J., Kouba, J., Lébl, V., Ludvová, J., Pilková, Z., Sehnal, J., & Vít, P. (1989). Hudba v českých dějinách: od středověku do nové doby. Praha.
  • Černý, Miroslav K. (2006). Hudba antických kultur. Olomouc.
  • Eggebrecht, Hans Heinrich:. (1991). Musik im Abendland.. München.
  • Hrčková, N. (2005). Dějiny hudby I. Středověk . Praha.
  • Hrčková, N. (2005). Dějiny hudby II. Renesance. Praha.
  • Kouba, J. (1988). ABC hudebních slohů: od raného středověku k W.A. Mozartovi. Praha.
  • Krák, E. (2008). Viachlas v hudbe Európy: teoretické, kompozičné a historické súvislosti viachlasnej hudby. Stredovek a renesancia. Bratislava.
  • Palisca, C.V. Norton Anthology of Western Music. London, New York 1996. 2 sv..
  • Sehnal, Jiří - Vysloužil, Jiří:. (2001). Dějiny hudby na Moravě. Brno.
  • Strohm, Reinhard. The rise of European music, 1380-1500. Cambridge. 2005.
  • Taruskin Richard. (2005). The Oxford History of Western Music. Oxford.


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