SHK14 History of Music: Czech Music

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2024

The course is not taught in Spring 2024

Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Jana Perutková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. Mgr. Vladimír Maňas, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Academy of Ancient Music – Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Ing. Alena Albíniová
Supplier department: Academy of Ancient Music – Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
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
Upon completion of this course, the student will have a general knowledge of Czech music. Students will be able to discuss problems of style, structure (form) and performance of Czech music.
Syllabus
  • Political, social and cultural circumstances in the first half of 17th century. A. V. Michna z Otradovic. Cancionals, V. Holan-Rovenský
  • Principes of composition of baroque music, relation homophony-polyphony. The Czech conterpoint: B. M. Černohorský. J. Zach. J. N. Seger and his followers
  • Sacred music with respect to orders: Jesuits. The forms of compositions - religious song, oratorio, mass. Š. Brixi, F.X. Brixi. F. I. Tůma. J. A. Plánický
  • The Czech cantors, folk music. Pastorelas.
  • Musical life in Prague, canonisation of Jan Nepomucký, musica navalis. Chateau chapels in Bohemia and Moravia I.
  • Chateau chapels in Bohemia and Moravia II. Baroque opera in Czech lands and in Wienna. The baroque theatre in Český Krumlov
  • The coronation of Carl VI. in 1723. Fux-Zelenka-Caldara
  • Jaroměřice nad Rokytnou and lord Johann Adam Questenberg.
  • P. J. Vejvanovský, F. I. Biber, V. M. Gurecký
  • J. H. Schmelzer, A. Poglietti
  • J. D. Zelenka. Theoretical writting on music - Janovka, Vogt, Kircher, Fux
Literature
  • FUKAČ, Jiří. "Česká hudba" - nad koncepcemi jednoho kulturního fenoménu ["Czech music" - the conceptions of a cultural phenomenon]. Opus musicum. Brno: Státní filharmonie, Svaz čes. skladatelů, vol. 17, No 5, p. 148-156, 1985. info
  • RACEK, Jan. Česká hudba : od nejstarších dob do počátku 19. století. 1. vyd. Praha: Státní nakladatelství krásné literatury, hudby a umění. 333 s. 1958. URL info
Teaching methods
lectures, listening music, class discussion
Assessment methods
written test, 100% of the final mark
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught once in two years.
The course is taught: in blocks.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 8 hodin konzultací.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2015, Spring 2019, Spring 2021.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2024, recent)
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