VH_333 The Artsong in a Variety of Styles

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2019
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. MgA. Kateřina Alexandra Šťastná, DiS., Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. Mgr. Vladimír Maňas, Ph.D. (assistant)
prof. PhDr. Jana Perutková, Ph.D. (assistant)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Vladimír Maňas, Ph.D.
Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Jan Karafiát
Supplier department: Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Tue 12:00–13:40 N42
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 40 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/40, only registered: 0/40, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/40
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
The aim of the seminar will be the realization of a historical and artistic-aesthetic excourse oriented on the compositional and stylistic progressive genre of the song, as it developed under the influence of current stylistic tendencies between the years 1740-1850 in the regions of northern and southern Germany, Czech lands and Austria. The topic of female songwriters will also be discussed and their position in the professional music scene will be transformed.
Learning outcomes
Student will be able to: - a more comprehensive view of this issue - basic knowledge of key personalities of song literature, composers and authors of poetic texts and essential fruits of their creative activity, essential song compositions, cycles and collections
Syllabus
  • - terms: Lied, Gallant, Empfindsamkeit, Sturm und Drang, Biedermeier, romanticism in the context of song making, 1., 2., 3. Berlin Song School, Vienna Song School, etc. - German song about 1740-1800 - theoretical basis (J. C. Gottsched, J. G. Herder, J. A. Scheibe, C. G. Krause, J. Mattheson, von Hagedorn) - North German songwriters before the 1st Berlin School by J. V. Gerner and G. F. Telemann (Hamburg), brothers Graun (Berlin), J. F. Gräfe (Brunschwick) - the first Berlin song school - Second Berlin School of Music (after 1770) - Final Quarter of the 18th Century by J. F. Reichardt + C. F. Zelter (Berlin), J. R. Zumsteek (Stuttgart, J. A. Schulz, C. E. W. Schröter (Weimar) - Viennese Song School, J. Haydn, W. A. Mozart, L. van Beethoven, C. Kreutzer, M. T. Paradis - Significant authors of the lyrics: J. W. Goethe, F. Schiller, H. Heine, G. Klopstock and others - a late classic and early romantic song of Czech provenance - J. V. Tomášek his predecessors and followers -Vienna 1830s: F. Schubert -the song Northern and Southern Germany about 1820-1850: L. Reichardt, L. Spohr R. Schumann, Clara Wieck - Schumann, Fanny Mendelssohn - Hensel, Felix Mendelssohn - Bartoldi, 3. Berlin Song School, C. Loewe
Literature
    required literature
  • Tarantová, Marie. Václav Jan Tomášek. Praha: Orbis, 1946.
  • Citron, Marcia J. Corona Schröter: Singer, Composer, Actress. Music & Letters, vol. 61, no. 1, 1980, pp. 15–27. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/733474.
  • Burney, Charles. Hudební cestopis 18. věku. Praha: Státní hudební vydavatelství, 1966.
  • Bracht, Hans-Joachim. Lied und Autonomie. Ein Beitrag zur Ästhetik des Liedes im Übergang vom Aufklärungszeitalter zur Romantik. Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, vol. 49, no. 2, 1992, pp. 110–121. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/930672. Burney, Charles. Hudební
  • Hallmark, Rufus. The Rückert Lieder of Robert and Clara Schumann.” 19th-Century Music, vol. 14, no. 1, 1990, pp. 3–30. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/746673.
  • Tomášek, Václav Jan. Selbstbiographie. (Libussa, Praha 1845-1850), česky jako: Němec, František (ed.). Vlastní životopis Václava Jana Tomáška. Praha: Topičova edice 1941.
  • Küster, Konrad. Schumanns neuer Zugang zum Kunstlied: Das „Liederjahr‘ 1840 in Kompositorischer Hinsicht. Die Musikforschung, vol. 51, no. 1, 1998, pp. 1–14. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/41124356.
  • Citron, Marcia J. The Lieder of Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel. The Musical Quarterly, vol. 69, no. 4, 1983, pp. 570–594. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/741981.
  • West, Ewan. The Musenalmanach and Viennese Song 1770-1830. Music & Letters, vol. 67, no. 1, 1986, pp. 37–49. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/735524.
  • VÍT, Petr. Estetické myšlení o hudbě : (České země 1760-1860). Praha: Academia, 1987, 99 s. info
  • NĚMEČEK, Jan. Nástin české hudby XVIII. století. Vyd. 1. Praha: Státní nakladatelství krásné literatury, hudby a umění, 1955, 399 s. URL info
Teaching methods
seminar, class discussion, homework
Assessment methods
writing a shorter text on a selected issue related to the issue (3 standard pages)
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
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