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Lecturer(s)
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Course content
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1. Temporal layout of the history of music. Basic literature. Music in the ancient times. The characteristics of exotic music cultures. 2. Music in the ancient society. Greece. Music and the myth. The cult, religion and the ritual. Minoan and Mycenaean culture. The most important tools. The role of music in the society, agons. 3. Music in the Archaic and the Classical period of Ancient Greece. Hellenism, Rome. The major personalities, the basic music forms - vocal, instrumental, vocally instrumental. Music and the Ancient drama. 4. Theoretical system of the Ancient Greek music, aesthetics, theoretical writings, notations and the oldest monuments. Listening and analysis. 5. Music in the middle ages. Christian monophonic liturgical music (singing). Non-European sources - psalms and hymns, antiphonal and responsorial way of interpretation. The types of European liturgy prior to the reformation. Gregorian chant and five stages of its development. 6. The characteristics of the main genres of Gregorian chant - psalm and non-psalm singing. Sacramental and non-sacramental liturgies, the progress of the Liturgical year. 7. The aesthetic and musically theoretical context of Gregorian chant, modes of melody and notation. Paraliturgical singing - definition and types of the repertoire. The oldest spiritual songs on our territory. 8. The secular monophony - the French court lyric and epic poetry, its parallels to other countries, the types of medieval songs. 9. The polyphonic voice and its stages of development. Notre-Dame school, the importance of Leonin and Perotin. The major polyphonic techniques and forms. 10. Ars Antiqua - the main representatives, the basic music forms, the Franconian and Petronian Motet, the music theory. The French Ars Nova, the main representatives and their achievements. The Italian Trecento - the representatives and forms. 11. England as the third major center of the 14th Century music, the canon, gymel. The importance of John Dunstable in the developments of the polyphony in the Renaissance. The music theory, basic writings, personalities, the theory of Counterpoint. 12. Music in the Renaissance period. Six generations of authors of the Dutch polyphony. The major forms of spiritual and secular music. The characteristics of the music language.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Lecture, Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming)
- Preparation for the Exam
- 40 hours per semester
- Attendace
- 24 hours per semester
- Homework for Teaching
- 11 hours per semester
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Learning outcomes
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The goal is to get reliable orientation in the characteristics (historical, theoretical, aesthetic and functional) of developmental stages of music from ancient times to the beginnings of the Baroque.
Being familiar with the historical context and the basic stylistic and stylish signs of individual stages in history of music. The ability to orient oneself in a music recording (written or audible) from historical times up until the year 1600. The ability to evaluate the repertoire of musical elements and their dramaturgy. The ability to apply the gained knowledge in other scientific research or teaching activity.
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Prerequisites
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History of european music.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Written exam, Seminar Work
75 percent of participancy, activity, reading of the special texts, paper, minimum 60 percent of success rate in the test.
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Recommended literature
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Apel, Willi:. (1986). Medieval Music. Stuttgart.
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Ćerný Jaromír a kol. (2005). Historická antologie hudby v českých zemích do cca 1530. Praha.
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Černý, Miroslav K. (2006). Hudba antických kultur. Olomouc.
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Dykast, Roman. (1998). Hudba věku melancholie. Praha.
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Eggebrecht, Hans Heinrich:. (1991). Musik im Abendland.. München.
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Finscher, Ludwig. (1989). Die Musik des 15. und 16. Jahrhundert.
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Gülke Peter. (1975). Mönche, Bürger. Minnesänger. Lipsko.
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Hrčková, N. (2005). Dějiny hudby I. Středověk . Praha.
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Hrčková, N. (2005). Dějiny hudby II. Renesance. Praha.
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Kühn Clemens. (1998). Kompositionsgeschichte in kommentierten Beispielen. Kassel.
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Müller Hartmut - Stephan Rudolph. (1991). Die Musik des Mitelalter.
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Palisca, C.V. Norton Anthology of Western Music. London, New York 1996. 2 sv..
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Schering Arnold. (1931). Geschichte der Muik in Beispielen. Lipsko.
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Taruskin Richard. (2005). The Oxford History of Western Music. Oxford.
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