At a theoretical level, the seminary will take up the following aspects:

1. Musical form:

Principles of formation of a comprehensible musical form: - melodic-rhythmical structure (motif = word, theme = sentence) - contrast (dynamics, colour, density, character) – gradualy development – from still to loud, from loose to dense setting, from simple to complex, and vice versa (climax and anti-climax). Fixed-constitution formal figurations - notions: songs as forms, sonatas, rondos, etc.

2. Musical instrumentary:

Basic organological division: winds, chords (musical-bow, manual), key instruments, percussion. Stable staffing of chamber-music groups, orchestra staffing (classic, romantic). Division of human voices (SATB), division of voices according to the opera roles (soprano – colorature and dramatic, lyric; tenor, heroic; buffo, basso buffo, etc.).

3. Musical message:

Musical composition as a story – musical composition as an organized sequence of attractive sounds – music as communication of emotion – music as an abstract intellectual construct. Gradual emergence of genre types constituted especially in the Romantism period (for instance, joyful, comic, sad, tragic, solemn). Notions: absolute music, programme music, popular music.

4. Musical genres:

Chamber music, orchestral music, vocal music, vocal-instrumental music, opera – cycles of minor compositions, sonatas, duos, trios, quartets, quintets – symphonies, ouvertures, symphonic poems – chamber songs, cantatas, oratoira, Church music, etc.

A number of themes will be accompanied by selected samples of musical-composition recordings of various style epochs, various genres, various character and different instrumental staffing.