- Inter-faculty Studies in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Computer Science
- Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Mathematics
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Computer Science
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Mathematics
Piano Masterworks 4018-KON256-CLASS-OG
The aim of this course is to equip the students with a clear historical understanding and appreciation of the achievements of solo piano composers and the evolution of the solo piano literature and its performance practice. Special focus will be on musical style and form, keyboard writing, genres, historical background, as well as elements of performance practice and technique.
This course is designed to introduce major piano works of Western civilization. The course does this by 1) covering multiple periods through an exploration of different styles, genres, artists, 2) drawing on a historical perspective that highlights different movements, or cultural practices, 3) emphasizing critical ideas of each historical periods and 4) uses performance practice to enhance stylistic differences between the historical periods.
It also introduces History of the Music, and is designed to impart knowledge of important musical and artistic achievements and how these achievements should be understood in their cultural contexts. The course meets these criteria by 1) introducing at least four major forms, genres, eras, cultures, or movements, and 2) introducing at least two methods of analysis of music, and performance.
Emphasis will be placed upon aural recognition of major works, gained by listening experience. Recordings and the interpretations of great artists will be discussed. Students will gain knowledge of historical and stylistic characteristics within the body of piano literature and an awareness of changing attitudes toward performance practice will also be emphasized.
Type of course
Learning outcomes
- knowing the relationships among different humanities disciplines studying works of art in culture and the sociological context of cultural activity
- knowing and understanding the main methods of analysing and interpreting products of culture in conjunction with tradition
- knowing the main methods of interpreting multimedia works and conducting their iconographic and stylistic analysis
- analysing works of visual, multimedia and performative arts in an aesthetic and social context
- producing written papers: essays, short dissertations, reviews, scientific reports in Polish and in one of the “congress” languages
- preparing performative activities using textual and multimedia elements
- participating actively in cultural and social life taking advantage of all forms offered by media, the arts and science
Assessment criteria
2 essays (Times New Roman 12, 1.5 spacing, 5 pages), Students must attend two concerts (piano), and write journal entries (concert reports) for each event.
Bibliography
Willi Apel, Masters of the Keyboard. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1947).
George Barth, The Pianist as Orator: Beethoven and the Transformation of Keyboard Style. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992).
Eva and Paul Badura-Skoda, Interpreting Mozart on the Keyboard. (London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1962.)
Kenneth Drake, The Beethoven Sonatas and the Creative Experience. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994).
Kenneth Drake, The Sonatas of Beethoven as he Played and Taught them. (Cincinnati: Music Teachers' National Association, 1972.)
Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger, Chopin: Pianist and Teacher as seen by his Pupils. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986.)
Charles Fisk, Returning Cycles: Contexts for the Interpretation of Schubert's Impromptus and Last Sonatas. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001).
John Gillespie, Five Centuries of Keyboard Music. (New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1972).
William Kinderman, Beethoven.(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995).
William Kinderman, Beethoven's Diabelli Variation. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989).
F. E. Kirby, Music for Piano: A Short History. (Portland: Amadeus Press, 1995).
Ralph Kirkpatrick, Domenico Scarlatti. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1953).
Meredith Little and Natalie Jenne, Dance and the Music of J.S. Bach. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991).
Robert L. Marshall, Eighteenth-Century Keyboard Music. (New York: Schirmer Books, 1994).
Robert Morgan, Twentieth-Century Music and Anthology. (New York: Norton, 1991).
Frederick Neumann, Performance Practices of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. (New York: Schirmer Books, 1993).
Anthony Newman, Bach and the Baroque. (New York: Pendragon Press, 1995).
Sandra P. Rosenblum, Performance Practices in Classic Piano Music. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988.)
David Rowland, Early Keyboard Instruments: A Practical Guide. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001).
David Schulenberg. The Keyboard Music of J.S. Bach. (New York: Schirmer Books, 1992).
R. Larry Todd, ed. Nineteenth-Century Piano Music. (New York: Schirmer Books, 1990).
David Witten, Nineteenth-Century Piano Music: Essays in Performance and Analysis. (New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1997).
Konrad Wolff, Masters of the Keyboard: Individual Style Elements in the Piano Music of Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, and Brahms. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1983).
Konrad Wolff, Schnabel's Interpretation of Piano Music. (New York: Norton, 1972).
Additional information
Information on level of this course, year of study and semester when the course unit is delivered, types and amount of class hours - can be found in course structure diagrams of apropriate study programmes. This course is related to the following study programmes:
- Inter-faculty Studies in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Computer Science
- Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Mathematics
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Computer Science
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Mathematics
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