Course: Current Research in History of Music

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Course title Current Research in History of Music
Course code KMU/91ADH
Organizational form of instruction no contact
Level of course Doctoral
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 10
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Kopecký Jiří, doc. PhDr. Ph.D.
Course content
Course content is determined by the teacher/examiner according to the expert orientation of students and in co-work with their supervisors. It is based on the recommended foreign language and domestic literature. Lecture is headed to the selected areas of music history and current research. Students present their papers and discuss them. The content of lectures is in general given according to the structure of points as follows: 1/ Doubts about limits on historiographical research (H. H. Eggebrecht, J. Černý) 2/ Methods and historiographical research (R. Descartes, P. K. Feyerabend) 3/ Methods and historiographical research (C. Dahlhaus) 4/ Research of music reception 5/ The Importance of historiographical research (F. Nietzsche, J. Patočka) 6/ Inductive method (K. R. Popper) 7/ Philosophy and phenomenology (H. Arendtová, I. Blecha) 8/ Synthetical works and detailed monographical studies (J. Fukač, M. Ottlová) 9/ Selected publications, its analysis and evaluation (J. Křesťan and Z. Nejedlý) 10/ Selected publications, its analysis and evaluation (musicological periodicals) 11/ Selected publications, its analysis and evaluation (outputs of Theatre institute) 12/ Selected publications, its analysis and evaluation (H. Spurná and musical theater)

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook)
  • Homework for Teaching - 12 hours per semester
  • Preparation for the Exam - 60 hours per semester
  • Semestral Work - 40 hours per semester
  • Attendace - 13 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
Obtaining current knowledge of music history focusing on the chosen topic of a dissertation. The lectures aim to clear different metodological attitude in the historical part of musicology. The definition of a subject of music historiography camoes through terminological discourses (e.g. music - musica process - work of music - source of inspiration). Contemporary trends in the musicological research are demonstreted on selected publications and projects (studies in periodicals, monographies, editions etc.).
Mastery of current knowledge and methods in a specialized field of music history. Student will gain an overview of both possibilities and limitations of historiographical research in musicology (e.g. inductive procedures, structural history). Discussion on critics and presentations of primary informations should arise the appropriate attitude to sources for student should be able to decide how to exploit given source in the best way.
Prerequisites
Conditional course Methodology of musicology and basic orientation in musicological output are required (e.g. encyklopedias MGG and Grove, monogprahies on distinguished composers, periodicals).

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

A paper on state of sources, literature and music historical context of the dissertation topic. Requirements for the final exam are established by the teacher/examiner partly for the whole group, partly individually - in the range of recommended foreign and domestic literature.
Recommended literature
  • Specifická literatura podle zaměření doktoranda.
  • C. Dahlhaus. (1983). Foundations of Music History. Cambridge.
  • H. H. Eggebrecht. (2005). Musik im Abendland. München.
  • K. R. Popper. (2000). Logika vědeckého bádání. Praha.
  • P. K. Feyerabend. (2001). Rozprava proti metodě. Praha.
  • R. Descartes. (1992). Rozprava o metodě. Praha.
  • W. Keil, ed. (2007). Basistexte Musikästhetik und Musiktheorie. München.


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): Theory and History of Music (12) Category: Theory and history of arts - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -