Course: Composition 1

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Course title Composition 1
Course code KMU/KPR1
Organizational form of instruction Exercise
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 2
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
Lecturer(s)
  • Keprt Marek, MgA. Ph.D.
Course content
Stylistic exercises: Exposition of a fugue, variations in classical style, various arts of piano-texture, ability to work out piano reduction of scores, instrumentation of piano texture (classical, romantic, impressionistic), one-voice composition for a wind or string instrument, pattern-method, minimal music methods, microinterval composition, composition for prepared piano.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Demonstration
Learning outcomes
Basic methods of composition
The student gets a survey of methods of composition work and thinking.
Prerequisites
Good orientation in the problems of harmony, counterpoint and musical analysis.

Assessment methods and criteria
Student performance, Analysis of Creative works (Music, Pictorial,Literary)

The student works out the given stylistic exercies and compositions of his own.
Recommended literature
  • Karkoschka, Erhard. Das Schrifftbild der neuen Musik, Celle 1966.
  • Vačkář, Václav, Vačkář, Dalibor. Instrumentace symfonického orchestru a hudby dechové, Praha 1954.
  • Zich, Jaroslav. (1987). Kapitoly a studie z hudební estetiky. Praha.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Musicology (2019) Category: Theory and history of arts 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Musicology (2019) Category: Theory and history of arts 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: -