HVDR_ASS2 Applied Musical Semiotics and Semantics 2

Faculty of Education
Spring 2010
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Leoš Faltus (lecturer)
doc. PhDr. Marek Sedláček, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. Michal Košut, Ph.D.
Department of Music – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: doc. PhDr. Marek Sedláček, Ph.D.
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
The development of general and music semiotics. Musical structure as a sign, music as a sign system - signification of music work as specific communication. Syntactic, semantic and pragmatic level of semiotics. At the end of this course, students should be able to understand music in its relations.
Syllabus
  • I. History of semiotic thinking (general semiotics, social, artistic and music ones). Musical structure as a sign, music as a sign system (J. Volek). Specific concepts of Czech semiotics. Prague Music semiotic team (multidisciplinary team for the expressional and communicational art systems (Poledňák - Jiránek). Interpersonal hypothesis of music semantics (Doubravová - Poledňák). II. Basic musical semiotic issues (the definition of music, the boundaries of music and extra-music, metacharacters in music - presentation, representation). Exemplification of procedures in the music - semiosis. Music semiosis as a social psychological process. Stratification of music semiosis.
Literature
  • SEDLÁČEK, Marek. Eco, Umberto. Teorie sémiotiky (A Theory of Semiotics) (A Theory of Semiotics). (Translated by Marek Sedláček). 1st ed. Brno: JAMU, 2004, 410 pp. JAMU. ISBN 80-85429-99-3. info
  • HAWKES, Terence. Strukturalismus a sémiotika. Vyd. 1. Praha: Host, 1999, 174 s. ISBN 80-86055-62-0. info
Assessment methods
Consultations. Exam. The exam content comes from the range of recommended literature.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: in blocks.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2000, Spring 2001, Spring 2002, Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Autumn 2014, Spring 2015, Autumn 2015, Spring 2016, Autumn 2016, Spring 2017, Autumn 2017, Spring 2018, Autumn 2018, Spring 2019, Autumn 2019, Spring 2020, autumn 2020, Spring 2021.
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