VH_297 Music - Culture - Society 1890-1945

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
1/1. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Jiří Zahrádka, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Vladimír Maňas, Ph.D.
Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Ing. Alena Albíniová
Supplier department: Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of music theory.
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
there are 12 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
Course objectives
The focus is on the key stylistic and compositional developments in the music of the period 1890-1945 analysed in broader cultural and social contexts.
Syllabus
  • Modern music, Art noveau, Jugendstil (R. Strauss, Mahler)
  • Leoš Janáček I.
  • Leoš Janáček II.
  • Music and decadence: Salome by Richard Strauss
  • Music - symbolism - impressionism (Debussy)
  • Music and expressionism (Schönberg)
  • Prokofjev - Stravinskij
  • Twelve-tone technique as a methode
  • "Junge Klassizität", epic music theatre (Busoni, Hindemith, Weill)
  • . Bartók, Šostakovič
  • American music (Ives, Cowell, Copland, Cage)
  • Webern. Serialism and its consequences
Literature
  • Die Musik des 20. Jahrhunderts [Danuser] (Podřaz.) : Neues Handbuch der Musikwissenschaft. Bd. 7, Die Musik des 20. Jahrhunderts [1997, Wiss. Buchgesellschaft]. info
  • WHITTALL, Arnold. Musical composition in the twentieth century. 1st publ. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999, vi, 419 s. ISBN 0-19-816684-2. info
  • ŠTĚDROŇ, Miloš. Leoš Janáček a hudba 20. století : paralely, sondy, dokumenty. 1. vyd. Brno: Nadace Universitas Masarykiana, 1998, 301 s. ISBN 80-902197-4-8. info
  • STRUNK, Oliver and Leo TREITLER. Source Readings in Music History. Revised Edition. New York - London: W. W. Norton & Company, 1998, 1552 pp. ISBN 0-393-03752-5. info
  • ADORNO, Theodor W. Philosophie der neuen Musik. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1997, 207 pp. Gesammelte Schriften Band 12. ISBN 3-518-06511-4. info
  • SCHÖNBERG, Arnold. Stil und Gedanke : [Aufsätze zur Musik]. Edited by Ivan Vojtěch. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 1992, 243 s. ISBN 3596236169. info
  • The late Romantic era :from the mid-19th century to World War I. Edited by Jim Samson. London: Macmillan Press, 1991, x, 463 s. ISBN 0-333-51602-8. info
  • MORGAN, Robert P. Twentieth-Century Music: A History of Musical Style in Modern Europe and America. New York - London: W. W. Norton & Company, 1990, 554 pp. ISBN 0-393-95272-X. info
  • VOJTĚCH, Ivan. Komentáře 1957-'87. Praha: Panton, 1988. info
  • PŘIBÁŇOVÁ, Svatava. Leoš Janáček. 1. vyd. Praha: Horizont, 1984, 147 s. info
  • SAMSON, Jim. Music in transition :a study of tonal expansion and atonality, 1900-1920. London: J.M. Dent, 1977, 242 s. ISBN 0-460-86150-6. info
  • STRAVINSKY, Igor. Rozhovory s Robertem Craftem. Translated by Ivan Vojtěch. 1. vyd. Praha: Supraphon, 1967, 476 s. info
  • SCHÖNBERG, Arnold. Dopisy. Translated by Ivan Vojtěch. 1. vyd. Praha: Státní hudební vydavatelství, 1965, 253 s. info
  • Skladatelé o hudební poetice 20. století : Copland, Stravinskij, Schoenberg, Berg, Bartók, Martinů, Prokofjev, Honegger, Šostakovič. Edited by Ivan Vojtěch. Vydání první. Praha: Československý spisovatel, 1960, 192 s. info
Assessment methods
written test
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught once in two years.
The course is taught: every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2003, Autumn 2005, Spring 2008.
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