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Improvisation and Skill of the Ensemble Play I - OIBU4H013A
Title: Improvisation and Skill of the Ensemble Play I
Guaranteed by: Katedra hudební výchovy (41-KHV)
Faculty: Faculty of Education
Actual: from 2024 to 2024
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 3
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/2, C [HT]
Extent per academic year: 0 [hours]
Capacity: unknown / unlimited (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Note: enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: prof. PaedDr. Michal Nedělka, Dr.
Teacher(s): MgA. Jiřina Marešová, Ph.D.
Annotation -
Improvisation To get the ability to create the accompaniment of a folk and popular song in a worthy esthetic quality, using a satisfying musical form and structural musical elements. The musical stylization of the accompaniment of a folk or popular song in using chord symbols. Free improvisation of a basic musical form with its immanent expression. Evaluation and approaching to value student's ability and flexibility during the interpretation and playing scores. Playing in ensemble - Chamber music - Accompaniment - Orchestral parts The content of the subject is tended to development student's abilities and experiences in the chamber music and piano accompaniment. Students make a special musical community for performing the chamber music repertoire. The choice of the repertoire and the student's cooperation and another social interaction make very specific team project. Compositions are under the supervision of the academic tutors teaching instruments, in concerts and competitions of interpretation. They can be performed during special events of the University. Students playing the string instruments is supposed to prepare orchestral parts and ensemble playing. It is intended as a preparation for a teaching instruments in a basic music school.
Last update: Nedělka Michal, prof. PaedDr., Dr. (10.09.2024)
Aim of the course -

The student understands improvisation as an artistic and pedagogical activity developing musical thinking and creative potential of the personality. The student possesses improvisational skills that enable him/her to express his/her own musical ideas outside of major-minor tonality and allow him/her to use simple accompaniment patterns to folk songs. He or she can apply these models when arranging songs for vocal ensembles or for children's instruments.

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

Preparation for lesson
Expected preparation time for 1 hour lecture - 0 minutes
Expected preparation time for 1 exercise - 100 minutes
Self-study of literature (per semester) - 3 hours
Work with study materials (per semester) - 16 hours
Completion of continuous assignments (per semester) - 13 hours
Completion of the course
Seminar papers - 4 hours
Preparation for credit - 8 hours

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

Improvisation - prepared and performed tasks in agreement with the teacher

Ensemble playing - individual plan (chamber orchestra, chamber playing, piano collaboration, accompaniment) - compiled by the student in agreement with the teacher or set by the teacher, continuous implementation of the plan, public performance of the rehearsed repertoire

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

Party a partitury evropské klasické nástrojové hudby 18., 19. a 20. století, soudobá hudba. Notový materiál. Audionahrávky a videonahrávky.

Music sheets and scores of European classical instrumental music of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, contemporary music. Music material. Audio recordings and videos.

DAHLHAUS, C. Was heißt Improvisation? In: Improvisation und neue Musik. Mainz : Schott, 1979, s. 9-23. ISBN 3-7957-1760-4.

FERAND, E. Die Improvisation in der Musik. b.v. Zürich : Rhein - Verlag, 1939, 405 s.

KRAEHENBUEHL, D.; CLARK, F.; GOSS, L. Keyboard Theory. Book four. 1. vyd. Secaucus : Warner Bros, 1965. 48 s. ISBN 0-87487-118-2.

BAILEY, D. Improvisation: Its Nature and Practce In Music, Da Capo Lifelong Books. Reprint Edition, 1993.
 
GUIDO, M. Studies in Historical Improvisation. Routledge, 2019.
 
MORTENSEN, J. J. The Pianist´s Guide to Historic Improvisation, Oxford University Press, 2020.

 

Last update: Kadrnožková Monika, PhDr., Ph.D. (27.10.2020)
Syllabus -

Piano improvisation
Definition of improvisation as an artistic and pedagogical discipline
The place of improvisation in the development of the art of music performance
Pedagogical aspects of improvisation
The initial stages of teaching improvisation with a limited repertoire of notes
Improvisation of accompaniments
Improvisation of melody - principles of melodic construction
Improvisation within the framework of modes and extended tonality
Improvisation of accompaniments to folk songs in the role of supporting vocal arrangements and arrangements for children's instruments

Ensemble playing - students form a community of chamber music performance when possible. The selection of the studied repertoire and the form of cooperation thus become an organizationally demanding team project. Compositions studied are individually consulted with the instructors in the course, with opportunities for presentation at performance seminars, departmental concerts, faculty performance competitions, and numerous other social occasions.

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

The student defines improvisation as an artistic and pedagogical discipline, characterizes the place of improvisation in the development of the art of music performance.

The student characterizes the pedagogical importance of improvisation in relation to the musical development of the personality and in relation to the general development of the human being.

The student improvises on the basis of a limited supply of notes. The student characterizes and evaluates his/her improvisational performance and explains the chosen methods and procedure for teaching improvisation.

The student gives examples of improvised accompaniments.

The student characterizes types of organ point and plays them on the piano in all keys.

The student characterizes the sound effect of this type of accompaniment and its selection according to the character of the songs. The learner will play 3 folk songs with 3 types of organ point in the fundamental key and in transpositions to keys that allow the development of the range of the child's voice.

The student characterizes types of ostinato and play these types on the piano in all keys. The learner will play 3 folk songs with 3 types of ostinato in the fundamental key and in transpositions to keys that allow for the development of the range of the child's voice.

The student defines combinations of organ point and ostinato and play them on the piano in all keys. The student plays 3 folk songs with 3 types of this accompaniment in the fundamental key and in transpositions to keys that allow for the development of the range of the child's voice.

The student characterizes the principles of multiple voice arrangements of folk song. The learner explains the principles of the folk double voice. The learner will play 3 folk songs in folk double voice. Chooses a different type of accompaniment for each song - ostinato, organ point, combination of organ point and ostinato. She will play the songs in the basic key and in transpositions to keys that allow the development of the range of the child's voice.

The student explains the use of ostinato and organ point in arrangements of songs for vocal performance and for children's instruments.

The student explains the principles of melodic construction and improvises 4 melodies within modal and extended tonality. 

The student improvises 4 self-periods in various major keys and 4 in various minor keys: with ostinato accompaniment, organ point, and a combination of ostinato and organ point.

The student improvises 4 small two-part period forms in different major keys and 4 in different minor keys: with accompaniment by ostinato, organ point, and a combination of ostinato and organ point.

The student improvises 4 small three-part forms with reprise in different major keys and 4 in different minor keys: with accompaniment by ostinato, organ point, and a combination of ostinato and organ point.

The student improvises period and minor two-part and three-part forms within extended tonality and modality.

The student explains the procedure for teaching all improvised patterns.

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