FThematic areas follow the content of a course Overview of the History of European Music 1 (PDEK1): 1. Music Baroque as a Musical-historical Concept and Stylistic Category The periodisation of the history of music in the 17th and 18th century, stylistic designations, expressive means, and composition techniques. 2. Florentine Camerata and Its Significance, Baroque Opera and Oratorio in Italy and Outside Italy (England, France, Germany), Instrumental Music in the Baroque Period Developmental impulses of camerata, the most important figures and their work; the origin of opera and its expansion from Italy to all of Europe, major types and genres of Baroque music. 3. Andrea Giovanni Gabrielli, Claudio Monteverdi, Antonio Vivaldi, Henry Purcell, Johann Sebastian Bach, Georg Friedrich Händel An overview of the life and work of chosen figures of the history of music in the 17th and 18th century. 4. Issues of the Baroque Music in Bohemia and Moravia The specifics of the development of music in the 17th and 18th century, a confrontation of political and music history. 5. Music Classicism as a Musical-historical Concept and Stylistic Category Important places of early classicism (for example, Mannheim, Berlin, Vienna), the origin and development of major musical types, genres, and forms (sonata form, symphony, string quartet, opera). 6. Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven An overview of the life and work of the most significant figures of the history of music, their importance for the next development of European music. 7. Issues of Music Classicism in Czech Lands The specifics of the development of music classicism in Czech lands, the problems of so-called emigration, relations of Czech lands with main music centres and figures of their age (for example, Berlin, Paris, Vienna, W. A. Mozart, L. van Beethoven). 8. Romanticism as a Musical-historical Concept and Stylistic Category (Early, Peak and Late Romanticism) The definition of the term 19th century in music, the development of main and seemingly overlooked music types and genres (opera, symphony and symphonic poem, piano piece, song, cantata, oratorio, chamber music). 9. Nation Schools in the Music of the 19th Century A search for folklore, archaic and exotic music expressive means of individual national schools (Russia, Poland, Czech lands, Scandinavia, Spain), an overview of the life and work of important composers. 10. Musical Modernism and Late Romanticism, Inter-war Avant-garde A definition of concepts of Impressionist music, Expressionist music, the Second Viennese School, Neo-classicist music and New Objectivity, a folklore inspiration in music in the 20th century, examples of individual styles and schools illustrated on concrete works and figures. 11. Post-war Avant-garde in the 50s and 60s of the 20th Century A definition of concepts: seriality, timbre music, aleatoricism, concrete and electronic music, the aesthetic of social realism. 12. 'Postmodernism' Turn in the Music of the End of the 20th Century A definition of concepts of 'New Tonality', 'New Simplicity', 'New Romanticism' stylistic syntheses, exemplification of pluralist situation of the work of leading figures (for example, K. Stockhausen, P. Boulez, L. Berio, K. Penderecki).
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