Structure of Music I - OPBH4H043A
Title: Struktura hudby I
Guaranteed by: Katedra hudební výchovy (41-KHV)
Faculty: Faculty of Education
Actual: from 2022
Semester: summer
E-Credits: 5
Examination process: summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/2, MC [HT]
Extent per academic year: 0 [hours]
Capacity: unlimited / unlimited (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
Guarantor: prof. PaedDr. Michal Nedělka, Dr.
Teacher(s): prof. PaedDr. Michal Nedělka, Dr.
PhDr. Magdalena Saláková, Ph.D.
Pre-requisite : OPBH4H032A
Is pre-requisite for: OPBH4H052A
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Annotation -
The course organically combines knowledge about the development of music in historical and form context. It is therefore aimed at acquiring knowledge about the development, patterns and features of the form building, about the representation of forms in specific musical works; is also focused on practical mastery of basic building mechanisms of small forms in vocal and instrumental form, both in the verification task of theoretical knowledge and in didactic preparation. The presentation of forms is realized in connection with the development of music in the context of art-historical and generally historical.
Last update: Nedělka Michal, prof. PaedDr., Dr. (29.01.2023)
Aim of the course -

The aim is to acquire basic theoretical principles of music and to gain an overview of the key milestones of music-historical development.

Last update: Saláková Magdalena, PhDr., Ph.D. (02.03.2023)
Descriptors -

Expected preparation time for 1 hour lecture: 30 minutes

Expected preparation time for 1 exercise: 60 minutes

Self-study of literature (per semester): 30 hours

Work with study materials (per semester): 20 hours

Completion of continuous assignments (per semester): 10 hours


Seminar assignment: 5 hours

Preparation for credit: 10 hours

Last update: Bělohlávková Petra, PhDr., Ph.D. (30.01.2023)
Course completion requirements -

Demonstration of knowledge of the development of music and methods of its research from a historical and complex analytical point of view. Continuous completion of assignments based on active participation in class with a tolerance for absence in 4 class periods. Classified credit has 3 terms. Regular and 2 remedial terms.

Last update: Nedělka Michal, prof. PaedDr., Dr. (31.01.2023)
Literature -

Crocker, Richard L.: A History of Musical Style, New York1986
Grout, Donald Jay - Palisca, Claude: A History of Western Music, New York 1996 (popř. 1984)
Handschin, Jacques: Musikgeschichte im Überblick, Luzern 1948
Wörner, Karl-Heinrich: Geschichte der Musik, 8Göttingen 1993

Dahlhaus, Carl: Nineteenth-Century Music. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press 1989 (překlad Musik des 19. Jahrhunderts, viz Neues Handbuch der Musikwissenschaft, Band 6)

Green, Douglass. Form in Tonal Music: An Introduction to Analysis, Second Edition. Holt, Rinehart and Winston : 1979. 336 pp. ISBN-13: 978-0030202865.
Berry, Wallace. Form in Music. Prentice Hall : 1985. 439 pp. ISBN-13: 978-0133292855.
Stein, Leon. Anthology of Musical Forms. Warner Bros Pubns : 1962. 164 pp. ISBN-13: 978-0874870442.
Santa, Matthew. Hearing Form: Musical Analysis With and Without the Score. Routledge : 2009. 624 pp. ISBN-13: 978-0415872638.
Caplin, William. Classical Form: A Theory of Formal Functions for the Instrumental Music of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. Oxford University Press : 2000. 320 pp. ISBN-13: 978-0195143997.

Last update: Nedělka Michal, prof. PaedDr., Dr. (29.01.2023)
Requirements to the exam -

Complex analytical part

Comprehensive analysis of selected compositions with respect to the pedagogical aspects of the analysis

Music for analysis:

Folk Songs (selection)

Popular songs (selection)

J. Ježek: David a Goliáš

F. Max Kníže: Zklamaná láska

Josef Říha: Missa brevis

Zdeněk Pololáník: Liturgická česká mše

J. S. Bach: Malá preludia a fugety (fuga c moll, fuga C dur)

J. S. Bach: Temperovaný klavír (Preludium a fuga Es dur)

J. S. Bach: Francouzské suity, Anglické suity, Německé suity (výběr)

J. S. Bach: Passacaglia c moll

J. Haydn: Symfonie S úderem kotlů

M. Clementi: Sonatina č. 3 C dur

W. A. Mozart: Malá noční hudba

W. A. Mozart: Variace C dur

L. van Beethoven: Sonáta c moll Patetická

F. Schubert: Impromptu As dur

J. Brahms: Variace na Haydnovo téma

Vicent d´Indy: Istar

L. Janáček: Po zarostlém chodníčku

V. Sommer: Vokální symfonie

P. Eben: Okna pro trubku a varhany

V. Novák: Slovácká suita

F. Chopin: Etuda (výběr)

F. Chopin Preludia (výběr)

J. J. Ryba: Rozmilý slavíčku

Z. Fibich: Vodník

A. Dvořák: Symfonie e moll

A. Dvořák: Vodník

B. Smetana: Vltava

B. Smetana: Polka g moll (Poetické polky)

F. Chopin: Valčík As dur

Česká státní hymna

S. Prokofjev: Pater Lorenzo (Romeo a Julie)

S. Prokofjev: Gavota (Romeo a Julie)

Last update: Nedělka Michal, prof. PaedDr., Dr. (29.01.2023)
Syllabus -

1. Ancient music and genres, drama, its role and its modern conception
2. The beginnings of European music, chant, monody, non-periodic formations, essential formations of sacred and liturgical music. The beginnings of folk music, the oldest preserved monuments of Czech music, the form structure of contemporary and contemporary vocal formations, the foundations of the form building
3. Knight's music, minnesang, music formations of the epoch, organic period, Notre Dame, ars antiqua, ars nova. Organum, conductus, motetus, ballata, rondeaux, virelais, chasse, caccia, music of the Reformation, vocal formations of the epoch
4. Renaissance, Dutch schools, canon, madrigal, Italian Renaissance, Renaissance in Bohemia, literary brotherhoods, symbiosis of vocal and instrumental music
5. Baroque European and Czech, ricercar, fugue, prelude, toccata, cantata, oratorio, opera, concert, counterpoint variations, types of musical thinking, signs of instrumental music - motive, theme, figure, running, dance suite
6. European and Czech classicism, signs of music, new homophonic forms - sonata form, sonata cycle and variants of its cast, variation, serenade, opera
7. Romanticism, national schools, projection of romantic musical thinking into form and expressions - absolute and program music - symphony, program symphony, symphonic poem, song forms, problems of form and genre, cycles, dances, suite, vocal formations
8. Impressionism - modal music, formations, Czech expressionism
9. Expressionism - atonal music, serialism, 2nd Vienna school, Czech expressionism
10. Neoclassicism - extended tonality
11. Stylish syntheses of contemporary music - tradition and innovation of expressions and forms
12. Popular music and so-called nonartificial music as a phenomenon of the 20th century

Last update: Nedělka Michal, prof. PaedDr., Dr. (29.01.2023)
Learning outcomes -

Musical forms

The learner will characterize and analyze the following forms and their components and present examples of the forms on a musical instrument and vocally (based on examples from textbooks or from their own repertoire):

musical means of expression, types of texture,

basic building material - motif, theme, figure, run (performance of formations on the instrument),

motivic and thematic work (introduction of types of work on the instrument),

phrase, period, double period (introducing the formations on the instrument),

introduction, interlude, coda (introduction of the formations on the instrument),

small one-part and multi-part form (introduction of a unit on the instrument),

large two-part and three-part form (logically arranged phrases of the beginnings of the individual parts),

rondo (logically arranged phrases of the beginnings of the individual parts),

variations (logically arranged phrases at the beginning of each part),

sonata form (logically arranged phrases at the beginning of each movement),

sonata cycle or sonatina (logically arranged phrases of the beginnings of individual phrases),

fugue or fughetta (logically arranged phrases of the beginnings of the individual movements),

a suite (logically arranged phrases at the beginning of each movement),

cycles (characterised by coherence),

vocal forms - Czech and Moravian folk songs, artificial songs (10 vocal examples, but not children's songs used in kindergarten or primary school),

Mass, oratorio, cantata, opera, passion, pastorale (short vocal excerpts (notes 1 excerpt from any mass, e.g. from Dvořák's Lusatian Mass, Mozart's Coronation Mass, Brixi's Missa Pastoralis, etc, notate an excerpt from an oratorio, e.g. Handel's oratorio Judas Maccabeus, etc., notate an excerpt from any opera, notate a piece of pastorello, e.g. by J.J. Fish),
melodrama, motet,
canon (vocal sample of a canon tune),
instrumental forms - march, waltz, polka, mazurka, polonaise (sample of 3 pieces), invention, bagatelle, etude, prelude, eclogue, nocturne (sample of 2 pieces), programme music (notate or play on the instrument 2 motifs from any symphonic poem or programmatic symphony).

Last update: Nedělka Michal, prof. PaedDr., Dr. (23.01.2025)