Czech

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The student will be able to:
- describe plucked string instruments in terms of creating tone and techniques
- describe keyboard instruments in terms of creating tone and techniques
- describe percussion instruments in terms of creating tone and techniques
- describe woodwind instruments in terms of creating tone and techniques
- read chanber music scores and identify by ear musical instruments, tkeir techniques and articulations using musical terminology

The knowledge of basic concepts of musical acoustics, tempo, expression and dynamic signs, and musical instruments tuning is required as well as musical intervals, scales and modes, chords and basic harmonic connections, timbres, capabilities and limitations of musical instruments, and the influence of room acoustics on the interpretation of music.

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Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit as specified in the article 7 of BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations.
- Lectures consist of an explanation of basic principles supplemented with samples of scores and audio samples.
- Exercises support practical acquiring of themes presented at lectures in form of practical work with active participation of students.
Participation at lectures is recommended. Participation at other ways of instruction is checked.

Evaluation of study results follows Rules for Studies and Examinations of BUT and Dean's Regulation to the Rules for Studies and Examinations of BUT. Credit is given for written test.

1.-2. basic concepts of musical acoustic, harmonic series and its manifestation in musical instruments, Hornbostel-Sachs systematic of m.i., basic categories. Ideal parts of m.i., types of oscilators, resonators, excitators and radiators, their role in sound timbre

3.-13. principles of sound production and construction,notations, transpositions and tuning, standard and extended techniques of playing and articulation, terminology, recognition of m.i. in recordings of various styles and contexts.

3.-4. plucked strings: types of guitars, lutes, banjos, mandolins, bass gutars, harp, cimbalom
5.-6. keyboard instruments: piano, harpsichord, clavicord, organ, harmonium, accordion, celesta
7.-8. melodic percussion: xylophone, vibraphone, marimba, glockenspiel, bells etc.
9.-10. membranophones and other percussion: orchestral and basic african, latin and oriental, drumset
11.-13. woodwind: transposition, tuning, reading chamber music score, transcription to real pitch

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The aim of the subject is to show students the possibilities of musical instruments in terms of their use in instrumentation, to familiarize them with existing and new combination techniques and techniques of play, focusing on orchestral instruments (especially string and woodwind instruments) and theoretically extend knowledge about the basics of organology and the acoustics of musical instruments.

To obtain the credit it is necessary to complete at least 10 exercises during semester. Other forms of the checked instructions are specified by a regulation issued by the guarantee of the course and updated for every academic year.

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