VHDS2 Musicological seminar 2

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 10 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Lubomír Spurný, Ph.D. (lecturer)
PhDr. Petr Kalina, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
PhDr. Petr Macek, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
doc. Mgr. Vladimír Maňas, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
prof. PhDr. Jana Perutková, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
prof. PhDr. Miloš Štědroň, CSc. (seminar tutor)
doc. PhDr. Jiří Zahrádka, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Lubomír Spurný, Ph.D.
Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Ing. Alena Albíniová
Supplier department: Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Prerequisites
Doctoral seminars are held twice a month during the autumn and spring semesters. It is obligatory for students to complete 6 semesters of these seminars. The seminars are public, accessible to students of lower study levels and general public.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The main content of the course is a presentation of study results. Students present the results of their independent creative scientific work. An integral part of the seminars is a guided discussion on the delivered lectures and papers. Emphasis is placed on the development of individual abilities to understand, interpret and actively use the given issues in the specific field and interdisciplinary.
Learning outcomes
A successful graduate will be able to:
- identify and summarize important features of major periods of the Western music history
- conduct independent creative professional and scientific work
- be fully capable of using field’s discourse and understand methodological problems
- orientate themselves in contemporary musicological and socio-cultural trends
Syllabus
  • Older and newer Czech and European music cultures with special attention to some topics:
  • musical activities of religious brotherhoods in Moravia in early modern period
  • music at the royal courts
  • Leoš Janáček, Alois Hába, Pavel Haas etc.
  • taste of the audience
  • relationship of the music theory and aesthetics of the 19th and 20th century
Literature
    recommended literature
  • Disciplining music : musicology and its canons. Edited by Katherine Bergeron - Philip V. Bohlman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992, xi, 220. ISBN 0226043681. info
  • Hudební věda : historie a teorie oboru, jeho světový a český vývoj. Edited by Vladimír Lébl - Ivan Poledňák. 1. vyd. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1988, s. 653-103. URL info
  • Hudební věda : historie a teorie oboru, jeho světový a český vývoj. Edited by Vladimír Lébl - Ivan Poledňák. 1. vyd. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1988, 338 s. URL info
  • Hudební věda. 2, Historie a teorie oboru, jeho světový a český vývoj : disciplíny hudební vědy : (1. část). Edited by Vladimír Lébl - Ivan Poledňák. 1. vyd. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1988, 351-642 s. info
  • KERMAN, Joseph. Contemplating music : challenges to musicology. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1985, 255 s. ISBN 0674166787. info
Teaching methods
Reproductive work with text / image / educational resource.
Interview (in terms of asking questions).
Discussion.
Assessment methods
seminar task
presentation
teamwork
Language of instruction
Czech
Follow-Up Courses
Further Comments
The course is taught each semester.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2003, Autumn 2003, Spring 2004, Autumn 2004, Spring 2005, Autumn 2005, Spring 2006, Autumn 2006, Spring 2007, Autumn 2007, Spring 2008, Autumn 2008, Spring 2009, Autumn 2009, Spring 2010, Autumn 2010, Spring 2011, Autumn 2011, Spring 2012, Autumn 2012, Spring 2013, Autumn 2013, Spring 2014, Autumn 2014, Spring 2015, Autumn 2015, Spring 2016, Autumn 2016, Spring 2017, Autumn 2017, Spring 2018, Autumn 2018, Spring 2019, Autumn 2019, Spring 2020, Autumn 2020, Spring 2021, Autumn 2021, Spring 2022, Autumn 2022, Spring 2023, Autumn 2023, Spring 2024, Autumn 2024.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2025, recent)
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