VH_307 Czech Music Culture 1945 - 1972

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2019
Extent and Intensity
1/1. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Viktor Pantůček, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Viktor Pantůček, Ph.D.
Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Jan Karafiát
Supplier department: Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Thu 18:00–19:40 N43
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
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Course objectives
The aim of the course is to introduce music culture in the Czech Republic in 1945 - 1972.
Learning outcomes
At the end of this course, students will be able to orientate themselves in the space of Czech musical culture from 1945 to 1972.
They will be able to identify musical tendencies and individual compositional approaches.
They will understand the structure of music operation and the social function of music.
Syllabus
  • Music we don't want
  • - Post-war building
  • - Problems of socialist realism
  • - From the failure of the first five-year plan to criticism of the cult of personality
  • Music to be silenced
  • - Formalism, comopolitism - politically incorrect musical expression
  • - Problems of free creation in the diction of postwar development
  • - New music penetration into the former Czechoslovakia
  • Silence in music and silence instead of music
  • - Search for an individual language
  • - "Experimental" creation
  • - "Downhill, which meant the start" - from III. SČS Congress after "Prague Spring"
  • Music that ceased to exist
  • - 1968 and the gradual onset of "normalization"
  • - Parallel history, different history
  • - Final discussion
Teaching methods
Lectures, listening, discussion
Assessment methods
Listening test;
Final discussion
Language of instruction
Czech
Follow-Up Courses
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
Teacher's information
The course focuses primarily on autonomous musical expression, ie primarily on the area of "classical" music, but with a logical overlap into pop and folk music. I would like to listen and discuss a lot.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2015, Autumn 2017.
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