| 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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The course focuses on music developments and figures of European and American music after the Second World War. Special attention will be paid to developments of musical thinking as well as the wider aesthetic and cultural context. Topics covered: 1. The year 1945: thestarting point of New Music - New approach to the classic composers of modernism (A. Schoenberg, A. Webern, A. Berg, B. Bartók, I. Stravinsky) - New beginning: international avant-garde 2. Mainstream in the 20th century music (F. Poulenc, P. Hindemith, S. Prokofjev, D. Shostakovich, A. Copland, B. Britten). 3. Centres of the New Music - Darmstadt International Summer Courses for New Music - The Donaueschingen Festival - International Society for Contemporary Music - Studio for Electronic Music in Cologne and Munich - Domaine musical in Paris - Die Reihe in Vienna - Warszawska Jesień 4. Serialism 5. Musique concr?te and electronic music 6. Aleatorism, indeterminacy, open form 7. Timbral music 8. Political music 9. Exoticism and meditation in music, repetition and minimalism 10. Electronic and computer music 11. Musical theatre 12. Modernist, postmodernist and neo-modern music 13. Return to the 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 music developments and figures after the Second World War. Special attention will be paid to developments of musical thinking and aesthetic and cultural context. Lectures will cover especially these 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/PDHU1, KMU/PDHU2, KMU/D20U1.
KMU/D20U1 ----- or ----- KMU/D20-1 ----- or ----- KMU/H20-1 |
| Assessment methods and criteria |
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Mark, Written exam
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. |
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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 (2024) | Category: Theory and history of arts | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: Summer |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Science of Arts (2015) | 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 |