Syllabus
1. European culture and its origin in ancient civilizations, early Middle Ages, Gregorian chant and its influence on the formation of medieval and modern spiritual creation.2. Development of polyphony in the Gothic period, secular monophonic music.3. Renaissance as a significant transformation of world view and lifestyle, vocal polyphony in works of Dutch school.4. Italian Renaissance, transformation of musical style in Roman and Venetian schools; music in the Czech lands.5. Formation of Baroque style, signs of Baroque music, forms of instrumental music.6. The development of opera.7. Main Baroque leaders.8. Baroque in the Czech lands.9. Transformations of musical style in the period of Classicism, new musical types and forms.10. Classical Viennese.11. Czech musical classicism, musical emigration.
12. Early Romantism.
Annotation
In the lectures the students are introduced to the individual stages of musical development, the seminar is focused on the presentation of specific musical works. Students are encouraged to search for common signs of particular musical streams and periods, connections with historical and social development and to realize the differences of individual styles, directions, art schools and groups.