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Course, academic year 2025/2026
   
Terminology in Music Education - OPNH4H032B
Title: Terminology in Music Education
Guaranteed by: Katedra hudební výchovy (41-KHV)
Faculty: Faculty of Education
Actual: from 2025 to 2025
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 2
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:1/0, C [HT]
Extent per academic year: 0 [hours]
Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: not 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.
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Annotation -
The course focuses on the mastery of basic musical terminology in English, i.e. in the areas of music notation, musicology, harmony, musical forms, musical instruments and music history. On the basis of this terminology, the student is prepared to understand a professional musicological text and apply it to work with a musical composition.
Last update: Pecháček Stanislav, prof. PhDr., Ph.D. (08.09.2024)
Descriptors -

lessons - 24 hours
literature study - 16 hours
preparation for teaching - 12 hours
preparation for credit - 8 hours

Last update: Nedělka Michal, prof. PaedDr., Dr. (10.09.2024)
Course completion requirements -

1. Successful completion of the final written test.

2. Written translation of an English professional text of up to three A4 pages.

Last update: Pecháček Stanislav, prof. PhDr., Ph.D. (08.09.2024)
Literature - Czech

TAYLOR, E. The AB Guide to Music Theory. Part I. United Kingdom : The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, 1989. ISBN 1-85472-446-0

TAYLOR, E. The AB Guide to Music Theory. Part II. United Kingdom : The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, 1989. ISBN 1-85472-447-9

SPISAR, J. - PEŘINOVÁ, L. English-Czech, Czech-English Music Dictionary. Ostrava : MONTANEX, 2010. ISBN 978-80-7225-318-0

Last update: Vítová Zuzana, Mgr., Ph.D. (13.11.2019)
Syllabus -

1. Basic terminology in the field of notation

2. Terminology from the field of musicology (scales, intervals, chords)

3. Terminology in the field of musical forms

4. Terminology in the field of musical instrument science

5. Terminology in the field of music history

6. Working with English musicology texts

Last update: Pecháček Stanislav, prof. PhDr., Ph.D. (08.09.2024)
Learning outcomes -

The student lists the basic terms from the field of notation (rhythmic values of notes and rests, accidentals, parts of notes, names of clefs, components of the staff, bars, marking of bars). The student gives examples in any music editor with translation of the used terms.  

The student lists terms from musicology (scales, intervals, chords).

The student lists terms in the area of musical forms - names of basic forms and their components: motif, theme, figure, passage, period, phrase, exposition, development, recapitulation.

The student lists terms from the study of musical instruments. The student gives examples in any music editor with translation of terms.  

The student lists terms from music history - names of styles. The student uses different types of classification:

1. Universally artistic classification: antique, gothic, renaissance, baroque, classicism, romanticism, impressionism, expressionism, etc.).

2. Classification by type of musical thought: monody, polymelody, homophony, polyphony, heterophony, church modes, modern European modality, serialism, sonic style, aleatoric.  

The student translates a selected section of an English musicological text and finds terms that are principal for the content of the whole text.

Last update: Nedělka Michal, prof. PaedDr., Dr. (10.09.2024)
 
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