FF:HV_06 Counterpoint - Course Information
HV_06 Counterpoint
Faculty of ArtsSpring 2025
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/1/0. 3 credit(s) (plus 1 credit for an exam). Recommended Type of Completion: k (colloquium). Other types of completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- prof. PhDr. Miloš Štědroň, CSc. (lecturer)
doc. Mgr. Vladimír Maňas, Ph.D. (assistant) - Guaranteed by
- prof. PhDr. Miloš Štědroň, CSc.
Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Ing. Alena Albíniová
Supplier department: Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts - Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- there are 11 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
- Course objectives
- Students will be acquainted with the specificities of vocal and instrumental polyphonies in the renaissance and baroque music. Basic techniques: imitation, proportion, modality etc. Basic forms: canon, motet, madrigal, passacaglia, fugue etc.
- Learning outcomes
- Student will be able to recognize basic building means such as imitation, proportions, modalities, etc. They also get acquainted with the musical ones the forms in which they were used - canon, moteto, madrigal, passacaglia, fuga etc.
- Syllabus
- Introduction to counterpoint: basic terminology
- Prerequisites: intervals and modes - their classification
- Techniques of the cantus firmus: 1:1, 2:1, 4:1, 3:1, 6:1 and syncopic counterpoint
- Imitation techniques: typology
- Contrapuntal figures
- Instrumental techniques: free and reversed counterpoint
- Fugue - analysis and exemplification of the techniques
- Literature
- required literature
- HŮLA, Zdeněk: Nauka o kontrapunktu (Praha, Editio Supraphon 1985).
- FUX, Johann Joseph. Gradus ad Parnassum, oder, Anführung zur regelmäßigen musikalischen Composition. Translated by Lorenz Christoph Mizler. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 2008, 197 s. ISBN 9783487052090. info
- ZARLINO, Gioseffo: The Art of Counterpoint (anglický překlad III. dílu spisu Le Institutioni Harmoniche 1558; 2. vyd., Londýn 1976).
- recommended literature
- ŠÍN, Otakar: Nauka o kontrapunktu, imitaci a fuze (Praha 1936).
- SIMPSON, Christopher: A Compendium of Practical Music in Five Parts (druhé vydání 1667, reprint Oxford 1970).
- MARPURG, Friedrich Wilhelm: Handbuch bey dem Generalbasse und der Composition (sv. I–III, 1755–58).
- MORLEY, Thomas: An Plain and Easy Introduction to Practical Music (London 1597, reprint London 1952).
- LA MOTTE, Diether de. Kontrapunkt : ein Lese- und Arbeitsbuch. 1. Aufl. Leipzig: VEB Deutscher Verlag für Musik, 1985, 374 s. info
- Der freie Satz (Variant.) : Kontrapunkt und Fuge im freien (modernen) Tonsatz einschließlich Chorkomposition. info
- Teaching methods
- lectures, homeworks
- Assessment methods
- Written test.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
General note: Kurz probíhá v rámci projektu č. CZ.1.07/2.2.00/28.0044 Inovace uměnovědných studijních oborů na Filozofické fakultě MU, který je spolufinancován Evropským sociálním fondem a státním rozpočtem České republiky. Viz. www.phil.muni.cz/music/opvk.
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