UHVM0120 History of European Music I

Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava
Winter 2013
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Markéta Haničáková, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Markéta Haničáková, Ph.D.
Institute of Historical Sciences – Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Historical and theoretical issues of the history of Czech and European music throughout their development. The ability to characterize each developmental stage , reliably oriented life and work of prominent European and Czech music, including historical knowledge and theoretical issues stylish and generic areas of music.
Syllabus
  • 1. Periodization of the history of European music.
    2. Second Christian worship singing. Gregorian chant.
    3. Secular unison (troubadours, trouv?res, minnesänger, meistersänger).
    4. The origin and early polyphony period, epoch Notre Dame, the Ars Antiqua, Ars Nova.
    5. Franco-Flemish vocal polyphony.
    6. Venetian School, its characteristics and developmental leaders.
    7. The Reformation in Germany, Martin Luther and the Protestant chorale.
    8. Roman School, its basic characteristics, key leaders. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina as a key figure of the Roman school. Pontifical band in Rome.
    9. The emergence and development of the Italian madrigal.
    10. Music of the High Renaissance in Spain.
    11. The High Renaissance music in England.
    12. Late Western European Renaissance and Mannerism.
    Life and Work of Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa.
    13. Claudio Monteverdi and his influence on the musical development of the Renaissance and the beginning of the Baroque.
    14. Musical development in the Czech lands in the 9th - 16th century.
    15. Tools and instrumental music in the Renaissance.
Literature
    required literature
  • Abraham, Gerald. Stručné dejiny hudby. Bratislava 2003. info
    recommended literature
  • Smolka, Jaroslav a kol. Dějiny hudby. Brno 2001. info
  • Besseler, Heinrich. Die Musik des Mittelalters und der Renaissance. Handbuch der Musikwissenschaft, Bd. 13. info
  • Michels, Ulrich. Encyklopedický atlas hudby. Brno 2000. info
  • Adler, Quido. Handbuch der Musikgeschichte. Berlin 1930. info
  • Kolektiv autorů. Hudba v českých dějinách. Praha 1989. info
  • Brown, Howard, M. Music in the Renaissance. Englewood, Cliffs 1976. info
  • Bukofzer, Manfréd. Studies in Medieval and Renaisance Music. New York 1950. info
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Teacher's information
* Students will become familiar with both the depositary of musical instruments,
* sheet music and literature of music, both will learn cataloguing music, literature about music and sound recordings
The course is also listed under the following terms Winter 2007, Winter 2008, Winter 2009, Winter 2010, Winter 2011, Winter 2012, Winter 2014, Winter 2015, Winter 2016, Winter 2017, Winter 2018, Winter 2019, Winter 2020, Winter 2021.
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