| Course title | Psychology of Music |
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| Course code | KMU/HPS |
| Organizational form of instruction | Lecture + Seminar |
| Level of course | Bachelor |
| Year of study | not specified |
| Semester | Winter and summer |
| Number of ECTS credits | 4 |
| 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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topics: 1) subject field, interdisciplinary relationships and methods of music psychology 2) music in everyday life 3) physiology and theories of musical hearing 4) apperception of music, personality factors of affinity for music 5) reception of music, social factors of affinity for music 6) musical appreciation (musicalness) - its development, grades, methods of its detection 7) time and space in music 8) music and brain 9) music therapy 10) history of musical psychology
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| Learning activities and teaching methods |
Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming)
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| Learning outcomes |
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The course introduces into psychological aspects of music and of its place in human life. It aims at interlacing with the tradition of musicological thinking and at presentation of recent contributions and approaches, as well as of refering to interdisciplinary contexts which go along with the discipline.
Students will gain an overview of the mental phenomena accompanying music activities; they will familiarize themselves with the methods of knowledge acquisition of music psychology phenomena and with the tools for the musicality diagnosis. Students will understand the historical changes in the interest of music psychology phenomena and also the up-to-date topics and approaches. |
| Prerequisites |
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Students should appreciate music and it would be good for them to be acquaintd with basic musical terminology.
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| Assessment methods and criteria |
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Mark, Seminar Work
Sufficient and active participation in class (max. of 3 absences), a seminar paper about an academic article (or a published empirical research), sufficient knowledge of the issues covered in class and in the basic literature. |
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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): Musicology (2019) | Category: Theory and history of arts | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Musicology (2017) | Category: Theory and history of arts | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Science of Arts (2015) | Category: Theory and history of arts | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Musicology (2024) | Category: Theory and history of arts | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Musicology (2019) | Category: Theory and history of arts | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Science of Arts (2015) | Category: Theory and history of arts | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Science of Arts (2024) | Category: Theory and history of arts | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Musicology (2019) | Category: Theory and history of arts | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Musicology (2024) | Category: Theory and history of arts | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Science of Arts (2019) | Category: Theory and history of arts | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Musicology (2024) | Category: Theory and history of arts | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Musicology (2022) | Category: Theory and history of arts | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |