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History of Music of the 20th and 21st Centuries

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Course ID: 3106-HMXXiXXI
Erasmus code / ISCED: (unknown) / (unknown)
Course title: History of Music of the 20th and 21st Centuries
Name in Polish: Historia muzyki XX i XXI wieku
Organizational unit: Institute of Musicology
Course groups: (in Polish) III rok I st. Muzykologia
(in Polish) Przedmioty obowiązkowe dla III r. studiów stacjonarnych I stopnia
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores): 6.00 Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles:
  • the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS;
  • the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h;
  • 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes;
  • weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS;
  • work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load.
Language: Polish
Type of course:

obligatory courses

Short description:

The lecture focuses on main trends and phenomena in 20th-century and recent music, presented in chronological and systematic order.

Full description:

The lecture focuses on the most important trends and phenomena in the 20th-century music to the present day, in chronological and systematic order. It outlines characteristic currents, such as the phenomena of modernism, avant-garde, neoclassicism, aspects of postmodernism, individual styles and changes in different stages of composer's output, as well as transformations in approach to tonality.

Bibliography: (in Polish)

- Elliott Antokoletz, Muzyka XX wieku, Inowrocław (Wydawnictwo Pozkal) 2009.

- Christoph Cox, Daniel Warner (red.), Kultura dźwięku. Teksty o muzyce nowoczesnej, Warszawa (Wydawnictwo „Słowo, obraz, terytoria”) 2010.

- Maciej Gołąb, Dodekafonia. Studia nad teorią i kompozycją I połowy XX wieku. Bydgoszcz, 1987; Muzyczna moderna w XX wieku. Między kontynuacją, nowością a zmianą fonosystemu, Wrocław (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego) 2011.

- Maria Piotrowska, Neoklasycyzm w muzyce XX wieku. Warszawa (Akademia Teologii Katolickiej) 1982.

- Bryan R. Simms Music of the Twentieth Century. Style and Structure. Belmont, CA (Schirmer; Thomson Learning) 1996.

- Zbigniew Skowron, Teoria i estetyka awangardy muzycznej, Warszawa (Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego) 1989.

- Z. Skowron: Nowa muzyka amerykańska, Kraków (Musica Iagellonica) 1995.

Learning outcomes:

Acquisition and systematization of knowledge on the 20th-century and recent music; students widen the scope of their knowledge on different historic phenomena and sound manifestations and acquire musicological terminology in this field.

Assessment methods and assessment criteria:

Final exam checking the level of the systematization and depth of acquired knowledge.

Classes in period "Summer semester 2023/24" (in progress)

Time span: 2024-02-19 - 2024-06-16
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Type of class:
Classes, 30 hours, 30 places more information
Lecture, 30 hours, 30 places more information
Coordinators: Katarzyna Naliwajek, Paweł Siechowicz
Group instructors: Katarzyna Naliwajek, Paweł Siechowicz
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