HDH013l Basso Continuo I

Faculty of Music
Summer 2025
Extent and Intensity
1/0/10. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: graded credit.
Teacher(s)
Filip Hrubý (lecturer)
MgA. et MgA. Elena Pokorná, Ph.D. (lecturer)
prof. Barbara Maria Willi, Ph.D., MBA (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. Barbara Maria Willi, Ph.D., MBA
Organ and Early Music Department – Dean’s Office – Faculty of Music – Janáček Academy of Performing Arts
Supplier department: Organ and Early Music Department – Dean’s Office – Faculty of Music – Janáček Academy of Performing Arts
Prerequisites
Successfully completed first semester.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Course objective: In this basso continuo course, a master's degree student learns to attain a sovereign approach to basso continuo technique and understands the differences in style between the French, Italian and German basso continuo practice. Students of the harpsichord class will also gain knowledge of the typical features of basso continuo figurations in the early, middle, late baroque and gallant styles. Students will be given a framework of knowledge that will enable them to make independent artistic decisions. The student learns fluency in reading basso continuo figured bass numbers, he can independently realize basso continuo with self-reflection based on different solutions of his own rate. The student is able to integrate improvisational reflexes into regular playing. The master's student achieves a higher level of awareness of the meaning of the historical context plus the meaning of the content of the treatises along with other historical sources according to their own interpretative choices. Outline: - study of German basso continuo by Heinichen, Mattheson and Händel - cantabile soprano voice leading - Quarta italica - sequence in the German basso continuo - forms of 1st inversion of triads
Learning outcomes
At the end of the study course the student (harpischordist(lutenist)is able to:  realize an own interpretaion of a basso continuo line according to the stylistic parameters of the given piece and its context.  to practicatlly realize the aimed realization in interaction with other players.  to defend the own choices and to base them on theoretical knowledge (voice set, number of voices, positions, ornamentation and figuration, touch nuances)  to reflcet stylistic differences in different national styles of the period 1600-1800 and the influence of those stylisitc differences upon the own intepretation.  self-evaluate the quality of the own choices and their realization, keep the quality high and support the own artistic and research growth continuosly. (ostatní) - spojit akordy dle parametrů francouzského generálbasu - zrealizovat jednoduchou realizaci ve francouzským stylu - ohodnotit a evaluovat kvalitu vlastního výkonu, udržovat tuto kvalitu a vyvinout ji dále přes individuální učební proces
Syllabus
  • Research German continuo style according to treatises of Heinichen, Mattheson and Händel Research and exercice the expressive leading of upper voice. Learn to use Quarta italica (G. Muffat) in German musical context. Use of sequencies in German thorough bass. Forms of sixth chord.
Literature
    required literature
  • Borgir, Tharald. Performance of Basso Continuo in Italian Music. info
  • HAVRLANT, Jiří. O dynamickém continuu: Problematika realizace a interpretace basového partu v období galantního a citového slohu v obecném kontextu a konkrétní aplikaci při vytváření edice "Šesti sonát pro flétnu a basso continuo" Jana Jiřího Bendy. (About the Dynamic Continuum: Issues in the Realisation and Interpretation of the Bass Part in the Period of Galant and Emotional Style in the General Context and Specific Application in the Creation of Edition Benda´s "Six Sonatas for Flute and B. C."). Muzikologické fórum. Praha: Česká společnost pro hudební vědu, 2021, vol. 10, No 2, p. 188-196. ISSN 1805-3866. info
    not specified
  • Johann David Heinichen, Der Generalbass in der Composition, Dresden 1728. info
  • Muffat
Teaching methods
lecture and practical application - study of historic treatises, secondary literature and their application.
Assessment methods
exam with a jury.
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
The course is taught: every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Summer 2021, Summer 2022, Summer 2023, Summer 2024.
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