Course: 20th-Century Music 2

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Course title 20th-Century Music 2
Course code KMU/D20-2
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
Lecturer(s)
  • Křupková Lenka, doc. PhDr. Ph.D.
Course content
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 ?

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
  • Semestral Work - 12 hours per semester
  • Attendace - 26 hours per semester
  • Preparation for the Exam - 25 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
The course focuses on the development and important figures in music after the Second World War. Special attention will be paid to the development of musical thinking and the aesthetic and cultural context. Lectures will especially cover the following 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
Approval of the conditional courses KMU/PDEH1, KMU/PDEH2, KMU/H20-1.
KMU/D20U1
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KMU/D20-1
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KMU/H20-1

Assessment methods and criteria
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.
Recommended literature
  • Příslušná hesla v hlavních muzikologických encyklopediích..
  • BEK, JOSEF:. Hudební neoklasicismus, Praha 1982.
  • COOK, N.-PEOPLE, A. The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Music. Cambridge 2004..
  • DANUSER, H.:. Die Musik des 20. Jahrhunderts. Neues Handbuch der Musikwissenschaft, Bd. 7. Laaber 1996..
  • Dibellius, Ch.:. Moderne Musik I 1945-65. München 1991.
  • Dibellius, Ch.:. Moderne Musik II 1965-85. München 1994.
  • HAVLÍK, JAROMÍR. Česká symfonie 1945-1980, Praha 1989..
  • Kolektiv autorů. Handbuch der Musik im 20. Jahrhundert, 1-12 Bde. Laaber..
  • MORGAN, ROBERT P.:. Twentieth Century Music. A History of Musical Style in Modern Europe and America. New York-London, W.W. Norton 1992.
  • NAVRÁTIL, MILOŠ:. Nástin vývoje evropské hudby 20. století, Ostrava 1993.
  • SUTHERLAND, ROGER. New Perspectives in Music, London 1994.
  • VYSLOUŽIL, JIŘÍ:. Hudobníci 20. storočia, Bratislava 1981.
  • WEID, JEAN-NOËL von der. Die Musik des 20. Jahrhunderts. Frankfurt am Main 2001..


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 - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Musicology (2019) Category: Theory and history of arts - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Musicology (2024) Category: Theory and history of arts - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Musicology (2022) Category: Theory and history of arts - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Musicology (2019) Category: Theory and history of arts - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Musicology (2017) Category: Theory and history of arts - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Musicology (2024) Category: Theory and history of arts - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Musicology (2024) Category: Theory and history of arts - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: Summer