VH_761 Composer Karel Husa between Europa and America

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2010
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Jiří Vysloužil, DrSc. (lecturer), doc. Mgr. Vladimír Maňas, Ph.D. (deputy)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Vladimír Maňas, Ph.D.
Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Vlasta Taranzová
Timetable
Tue 15:00–16:35 J21
Prerequisites
-
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 80 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/80, only registered: 0/80, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/80
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
At the end of the course students should know and be able to identify most important works of the composer Karel Husa, they should unterstand context, topics such as czech emigration and musical symbols aiming at political circumstances (Music for Prague).
Syllabus
  • Lectures will reflect life and work of the composer Karel Husa, who studied ad the Prague conservatory and at the Academy of Music in the class of Jaroslav Řídký. During his stay in Paris he studied at A. Honnegera and N. Boulangerové, who influenced him in his harmonical language and led him to looser musical forms. 1954 he settled in America, 1959 got there the citizenship. He found his own way in confrontation with period american composers including John Cage. He used microintervals and components of nonartifical musical language. He continued in composing works, musically and ideologically related to modern czech music, esp. with the works of Bohuslav Martinů and Leoš Janáček.
Literature
  • Jiří Vysloužil: Karel Husa, tschechischer Komponistzwischen europäischen und amerikanischen Tradition, in: Neue Musik in Amerika. Traditionslosigkeit und Traditionslastigkeit. Ed. Otto Kolleritsch. Graz 1992. Wien - Graz 1994, S. 82-90
Teaching methods
Lectures with audiovisual examples.
Assessment methods
Short essay on selected topic and a colloquium.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught only once.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2015.
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