Course: Organology

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Course title Organology
Course code KHK/ORG
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminary
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Maršálek Petr, doc. Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
1. organology, organological systematics, instrument as a source of acoustic signal; basic historical sources 2. stringed musical instruments 3. keyboard instruments 4. wind instruments 5. percussion instruments 6. orchestra and standard instrumental groups

Learning activities and teaching methods
  • Undergraduate study programme term essay (20-40) - 40 hours per semester
  • Presentation preparation (report) (1-10) - 10 hours per semester
  • Contact hours - 26 hours per semester
prerequisite
Knowledge
Describe basic musical instruments used in orchestral practice and popular music.
Skills
Assign individual tools to basic groups (wind, string, drums, etc.)
Competences
N/A
learning outcomes
Knowledge
Explain the basic system of musical instruments.
Discover the problem of creating a tone on tools.
Know of the current European instrument and its main predecessors.
Define the basic developmental stages of the European instrument.
Skills
To independently describe and analyze the selected musical instrument and its historical development and musical interpretation possibilities.
Clarify the aesthetic starting points of the individual stages of development of the European instrument and its influence on the musical compositional and interpretative development of European music.
Competences
N/A
teaching methods
Knowledge
Interactive lecture
Lecture with visual aids
Skills
Seminar
Task-based study method
Textual studies
Competences
Seminar
assessment methods
Knowledge
Skills demonstration during practicum
Portfolio
Test
Skills
Test
Portfolio
Skills demonstration during practicum
Competences
Skills demonstration during practicum
Recommended literature
  • Campbell, D. Murray - Greated, Clive - Myers, Arnold. Musical instruments: History, technology, and performance of instruments of western music. Oxford University Press. 2003.
  • Hornbostel, E.M. ? Sachs, Curt. Systematik der Musikinstrumente. Zeitschrift für Ethnologie. .
  • Kurfürst, Pavel. Hudební nástroje.. Praha: Togga, 2004.
  • Michels, Ulrich. Encyklopedický atlas hudby. Praha: NLN, 2000.
  • Modr, Antonín. Hudební nástroje. Praha: Editio Bärenreite, 2002.
  • Sachs, Kurt. Handbuch der Musikinstrumente. Wiesbaden: Breitkopf und Härtel. 1930.
  • Tresch, John - Dolan, Emily. Toward a New Organology: Instruments of Music and Science. The University of Chicago Press, The History of Science Society. 2013.


Study plans that include the course
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