Course detail
Music Theory in English
FEKT-BPC-AH1Acad. year: 2022/2023
The subject deals with basics of music theory, musical epochs, musical instruments, anatomy of the hearing system, musical symbols, basics of acoustics, notation, basics of psychoacoustics, sound in rooms, etc. It focuses on vocabulary from this field.
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Learning outcomes of the course unit
- describe musical epochs and its typical features
- name musical instruments, families, describe acoustic guitar and how it is made
- describe the anatomy of hearing system in detail and explain its function
- describe musical symbols
- describe forms of music notation
- explain the basic terms from the field of acoustics, psychoacoustics and sound in rooms
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Course curriculum
2. Musical Epochs: the main features, inspiration and composers
3. Musical Instruments: families, the main parts of acoustic guitar, how it is made
4. The Anatomy of the Hearing System
5. TEST 1 (W1-W4)
6. Musical Symbols: staff, notes, rests, clefs.
7. Acoustics
8. Timbre
9. Sheet Music: history, Guido of Arezzo
10. TEST 2 (W5-W9)
11. Psychoacoustics, absolute threshold of hearing, “cocktail party effect”
12. Sound in Rooms: absorbers, diffusors, anechoic chamber
13. FINAL TEST (W1-W12)
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Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
Cook, P. R. : Music, Cognition and Computerized Sound, An Introduction to Psychoacustics (CS)
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Elearning
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Elearning