FF:VH_765 Heinrich Schenker - Course Information
VH_765 Music of the 19th century in the theory of Heinrich Schenker
Faculty of ArtsSpring 2011
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
- Teacher(s)
- prof. PhDr. Lubomír Spurný, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- doc. Mgr. Vladimír Maňas, Ph.D.
Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Vlasta Taranzová - Timetable
- Thu 9:10–10:45 N43
- Prerequisites
- Introduction to Schenker's analysis;; contains excerpts from Harmonielehre (1906) and Der freie Satz (1935). Schenker's theories is explained in the context of Sechter and Riemann, and discusses he polemic of Federhofer and Dahlhaus regarding their reactions to voice-leading analysis.
- 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
- Musicology (programme FF, M-HS)
- Musicology (programme FF, M-OT)
- Musicology (programme FF, N-HS)
- Musicology (programme FF, N-OT) (2)
- Course objectives
- The main objectives of the course are the following: making students aware of schenkerian analysis At the end of the course students should be able to: understand and explain the basics of Schenkerian analysis through reading his key works.
- Syllabus
- Heinrich Schenker: life and work
- Key works: Harmonielehre (1906); Kontrapunkt (1910 and 1922); Der freie Satz (1935) etc.
- Reception: Schenkerian analysis in viennese music teaching institutions
- Schenker, Schoenberg, Goethe, Schopenhauer, Freud
- Schenkerians in America: Hans Weisse, Felix Salzer, Oswald Jonas, Ernst Oster, Viktor Zuckerkandl
- Heinrich Schenker and the art of performance
- Knowledge and use of the term: diminution; composing-out; inner form - outer form; tonality; background; middleground; foreground; Urlinie; fundamental structure
- Literature
- required literature
- COOK, Nicholas. The Schenker project : culture, race and music theory in Fin-de-siècle Vienna. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007, xi, 355. ISBN 9780195170566. info
- SPURNÝ, Lubomír. Heinrich Schenker : dávný neznámý. První vydání. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého - vydavatelství, 2000, 186 stran. ISBN 8024400553. info
- FORTE, Allen and Steven E. GILBERT. Introduction to Schenkerian analysis. Edited by Heinrich Schenker. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1982, 397 s. ISBN 0393951928. info
- recommended literature
- Spurný, Lubomír. Heinrich Schenker: Der Antiheld der Moderne? Über einige Formen der Angst in der Musik. In Horror novitatis. Mezinárodní hudebně vědné kolokvium 2002. Praha : Praha : KLP - Koniasch Latin Press, 2004. od s. 88-93, 6 s. ISBN 80-86791-19-X
- FEDERHOFER, Hellmut. Akkord und Stimmführung in den musiktheoretischen Systemen von Hugo Riemann, Ernst Kurth und Heinrich Schenker. Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1981, 192 s. ISBN 3700103859. info
- Teaching methods
- lectures
- Assessment methods
- written test; oral examination
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
- Enrolment Statistics (recent)
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