FI:VB023 Folk Music - Course Information
VB023 Folk Music
Faculty of InformaticsAutumn 2024
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/1. 2 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Type of Completion: z (credit).
In-person direct teaching - Teacher(s)
- doc. PhDr. Josef Prokeš, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- doc. PhDr. Josef Prokeš, Ph.D.
Department of Machine Learning and Data Processing – Faculty of Informatics
Contact Person: doc. PhDr. Josef Prokeš, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Machine Learning and Data Processing – Faculty of Informatics - Timetable
- Thu 19. 9. to Thu 12. 12. Thu 18:00–19:50 B410
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 30 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 28/30, only registered: 1/30, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 1/30 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- there are 36 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
- Course objectives
- Main objectives can be summarized as follows: basic information about the creation, development and poetics of modern folk song genre (both Czech (60s to 80s) and foreign); offer the students of computer science counterbalance to their specialized courses and entice them into an active approach to cultural and social events. At the end of the course students should be able to understand and explain development and poetics of modern folk song genre; interpret contemporary folk songs.
- Learning outcomes
- Student will be able to:
formulate the specifics of the genre of folk music;
characterize the poetics of the main representatives of the genre;
analyze the given folk music both in terms of music and text;
to clarify the influence of computer music on the genre of folk music;
apply copyright to folk music. - Syllabus
- The origin, development and poetics of Contemporary Urban Adult Music, its current and future relations to the other kinds of music.
- Singing poets and poetry turned into music. Woody Guthrie, Pet Seeger, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Bulat Okudžava, Vladimír Vysockij, Karel Kryl, Vladimír Merta, Jaroslav Hutka, Vlastimil Třešňák, Jaromír Nohavica, Karel Plíhal, Slávek Janoušek, Jan Nedvěd...
- Students composing their own music, the structure of lyrics, harmonization, guitar and other accompanying instruments, principles of duets and turning poetry into music.
- Production of a folk concert, listener psychology.
- Computer music.
- Copyright.
- The ability to play a musical instrument is welcomed but is not necessary.
- Literature
- recommended literature
- PROKEŠ, Josef. Estetická výstavba české folkové písně v 60. - 80. letech XX. století. Brno: Masarykova univerzita v Brně, 2003, 168 pp. ISBN 80-210-3039-9. URL info
- Teaching methods
- lecture, report, explanation and demonstration, listening of selected songs and musical analysis, group discussion, home work, seminar work, essay, presentation, project and its defence, guided exploration, collaborating, critical thinking, reading, drills, folk recital visit
- Assessment methods
- written test, creation of own song, oral exam
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course is taught annually.
- Teacher's information
- http://www.fi.muni.cz/usr/prokes
- Enrolment Statistics (recent)
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