University of Warsaw - Central Authentication System
Strona główna

Musical Instrument as an Extention of Voice and Expressional Potential

General data

Course ID: 3106-IMjM-OG
Erasmus code / ISCED: 03.2 Kod klasyfikacyjny przedmiotu składa się z trzech do pięciu cyfr, przy czym trzy pierwsze oznaczają klasyfikację dziedziny wg. Listy kodów dziedzin obowiązującej w programie Socrates/Erasmus, czwarta (dotąd na ogół 0) – ewentualne uszczegółowienie informacji o dyscyplinie, piąta – stopień zaawansowania przedmiotu ustalony na podstawie roku studiów, dla którego przedmiot jest przeznaczony. / (0215) Music and performing arts The ISCED (International Standard Classification of Education) code has been designed by UNESCO.
Course title: Musical Instrument as an Extention of Voice and Expressional Potential
Name in Polish: Instrument muzyczny jako przedłużenie głosu i jako medium
Organizational unit: Institute of Musicology
Course groups: (in Polish) Fakultety, Pracownie, OG
General university courses
General university courses in the humanities
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores): 2.00 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:

general courses
Short description:

Study of the musical instruments’ symbolism, their communicative and aesthetic / expressional functions and uses in the light of ancient literature, history of music and ethnomusicological research.
Full description:

The lecture is dedicated to interpretations of music instruments as a both self-sufficient and complementary world of music in organic union with vocal potential of human beings. This topic is discussed in relation to music history, anthropology of music and ethnomusicology. There will be presented as well as ancient texts on musical instruments as contemporary ethnotheories made out from field research. The lectures will focus on anthropomorphic aspects in the instruments’ construction, terminology and performance practice regarding also problems of musical aesthetics and specificity of folk and professional instrumentarium.
Bibliography:

A vast literature on musical instrumentology in different languages cited in the course of particular lectures.
Learning outcomes:

Holistic understanding of instrumental music in synergy with vocal tradition as interpreted in history of music and ethnomusicological reserach.
Assessment methods and assessment criteria:

Evaluation based on attendance and texts written individually pertaining to contents of the lecture.

Classes in period "Winter semester 2024/25" (future)

Time span: 2024-10-01 - 2025-01-26
Selected timetable range:
Navigate to timetable
Type of class:
Seminar, 30 hours, 20 places more information
Coordinators: Piotr Dahlig
Group instructors: Piotr Dahlig
Students list: (inaccessible to you)
Examination: Course - Grading
Seminar - Grading
Course descriptions are protected by copyright.
Copyright by University of Warsaw.
Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28
00-927 Warszawa tel: +48 22 55 20 000 https://uw.edu.pl/ contact accessibility statement USOSweb 7.0.3.0 (2024-03-22)