2025 Ethnomusicology Summer School ****************************************************************************************** * ****************************************************************************************** • Romani Music • Music from Nature ****************************************************************************************** * Ethnomusicology Summer School: Romani Music ****************************************************************************************** ****************************************************************************************** * Annotation ****************************************************************************************** This year, we are organizing anethnomusicology summer school on Romani music with the main Research on and with Romani Musicians: Methodological and Representational Considerations. This one-week course will be organized in the framework of the Khamoro Romani Festival [ U www.khamoro.cz/"] , at the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Prague, and is inten international university students. The summer school is set to be organized in-person. Academic year: 2024/2025 Teaching method: Full-time Language of instruction: English Date: May 26 - May 31, 2025 Application deadline: March 15, 2025 Course fee: 100 EUR APPLICATION FORM [ URL "FHSENG-1534-version1-application_form_2025_romani_music.doc"] Charles University students, and Erasmus students at Charles University who wish to attend the course in the SIS. ****************************************************************************************** * Course Details ****************************************************************************************** In the morning lectures, students will become acquainted with the main areas in which Roma the creation of distinctive music styles. Moreover, we will discuss methodological and rep considerations, connected with research of and with Romani musicians. These discussions wi general features of minorities’ music(s). Film screenings and workshops will be held in th the evenings, students will attend festival concerts. The course will be led by prof. Zuza UK, with guest lecturer prof. Carol Silverman, University of Oregon, USA and dr. Kinga Pov of Szeged). ****************************************************************************************** * Further information ****************************************************************************************** Guarantor: doc. Zuzana Jurková [ MAIL "zuzana.jurkova(zavinac)post.cz"] Contact person: Mgr. Nikola Skladanova E-mail: nikola.skladanova(zavinac)fhs.cuni.cz [ MAIL "nikola.skladanova(zavinac)fhs.cuni.c Credits: 4 Lecturers: doc. Zuzana Jurková with guest lecturer and prof. Carol Silverman, University o ****************************************************************************************** * Ethnomusicology Summer School: Music from Nature ****************************************************************************************** ****************************************************************************************** * Annotation ****************************************************************************************** A five-day seminar for students at all levels on how to make music with the sounds and str natural world. We will review the music and writings of others who have worked in this way in the field listening with our ears, and our technologies, then return to the classroom a work in our own diverse ways, culminating in an informal performance for the group and for course will be taught by hosting profesor David Rothenberg, New Jersey Technological Unive collaboration with doc. Zuzana Jurková, Phd, and Oldřich Poděbradský, PhD., FHS UK. Academic year: 2024/2025 Teaching method: Full-time Language of instruction: English Date: June 2 - June 6, 2025 Application deadline: March 15, 2025 Course fee: 100 EUR APPLICATION FORM [ URL "FHSENG-1534-version1-application_form_2025_music_from_nature.doc"] Charles University students, and Erasmus students at Charles University who wish to attend the course in the SIS. ****************************************************************************************** * Course Details ****************************************************************************************** DAY 1: Introduction to the connection between natural sound and music. We will listen to m nature sounds, figure out how they connect. The day will be divided between listening indo outside as well. (Every day will have a mix) DAY 2: The story of the soundscape. We will study the work of R. Murray Schafer and how he way we listen to the landscape, and pass judgments about it. We do some soundwalking. DAY 3: How the use of nature in music has changed over the last decades. What difference t We will discuss our reading. On this day we also explore the freetware Audacity and how it to manipulate natural sounds. We go outside and RECORD sounds and learn how to work with t ways. DAY 4: We continue in our discussions, walking, listening, and recording. We develop our s Audacity. DAY 5: We work on our own musical projects, in groups, and at the end of the day, present concert. NOTE: these activities could be divided differently among the five days ****************************************************************************************** * Further Information ****************************************************************************************** Guarantor: doc. Zuzana Jurková [ MAIL "zuzana.jurkova(zavinac)post.cz"] Contact person: Mgr. Nikola Skladanova E-mail: nikola.skladanova(zavinac)fhs.cuni.cz [ MAIL "nikola.skladanova(zavinac)fhs.cuni.c Credits: 4 Lecturers: doc. Zuzana Jurková with guest lecturer and prof. David Rothenberg, New Jersey University, USA