Course: Introduction to Musicology 1

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Course title Introduction to Musicology 1
Course code KMU/ÚVK
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminary
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 unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Blüml Jan, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
T1. Aims, subject, methods of musicology as of a modern science. Relations of musicology with other (related) science disciplines. 2. Definition of music, interpretation of concepts of music or musica. 3. Musicological workplaces in CR. 4. Propaedeutic musicological literature and issues of musicological systematics. 5. The development of reflection of music until the origin of modern musical science in the 19th century - ancient musical theory etc., to Kiesewetter, or Ambros. 6. The creation of a scientific interest in music (music criticism and journalism, historical research, scientifically oriented research, musical-ethnological research). Basic innovative currents that create the paradigm of musicology. 7. Musical Science in the 19th century. Significant founding figures of modern musicology, mainly figures and work of G. Adler and H. Riemann. 8. Main developmental features, styles and figures of world musicology after Riemann and Adler.. 9. The origin of Czech music science. Founding figures - Hostinský, Nejedlý, Helfert. Czech music science in the 20th and 21st century. 10. Heuristics. Basic rules of heuristic work in musicology. Source basis of musicology, the relation between source and literature. Primary sources of musicology. 11. A specialised disclosure of sources, edition techniques - orientation in basic edition projects. 12. Secondary sources - an overview of essential world as well as Czech musicological literature and of essential musical-lexicographical works. 13. Musicological documentation (libraries, archives, collections, museums), spheres and ways of musicological documentation, documentation projects.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training)
  • Preparation for the Exam - 25 hours per semester
  • Attendace - 6 hours per semester
  • Homework for Teaching - 44 hours per semester
  • Semestral Work - 25 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
The course focuses on musicology, its subject, methods and aims. It also covers the history of musicology (trends, figures, and important texts), its system and disciplines. Issues related to heuristic, documentation and lexicography are also discussed.
Acquired knowledge: After the completion of the course, the student understands the extent of the subject of a scientific discipline of musicology; they are familiar with basic methods of historical as well as systematic musical science, and know the system of the discipline. Acquired skills: The student: - is able to apply the approaches of musical-historical procedures in work with sources; - reliably orientates themselves in the area of musicological work; - is able to look up information sources about various spheres of musicology. Acquired qualifications: The student will be able to apply theoretical knowledge of methodology of musical science in first independent seminar works in the Proseminar of Musical Science and, subsequently, in the seminars focussed on individual phases of the history of music or in the subject of systematic musicology.
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Written exam

Recommended literature
  • Kol. autorů:. Hudební věda I-III. Praha 1988.
  • Poledňák, I - Fukač, J.:. (1995). Úvod do studia hudební vědy. Olomouc 1995. Olomouc.
  • Poledňák, I - Fukač, J.:. Úvod do studia hudební vědy. Olomouc 1995.
  • Příslušná hesla v muzikologických encyklopediích..
  • BEARD, David. (2005). Musicology: The Key Concepts (Routledge Key Guides).
  • Dahlhaus, Carl (ed.). Einführung in die systematische Musikwissenschaft. Köln 1971, 1988..
  • Elschek, Oskár. Hudobná vedy súčasnosti. Systematika, teória, vývin. Bratislava 1984.
  • HOOPER, Giles. (2006). The Discourse of Musicology.
  • Nicole Schwindt-Gross. Musikwissenschaftliches Arbeiten. Hilfsmittel-Techniken-Aufgaben. Kassel 1992..
  • WILLIAMS, Alastair. (2001). Constructing Musicology (Routledge Revivals).


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