Music in Theatre Performance - Course 1

Subject guarantor:

Vladimír FRANZ, Jan BURIAN

Name of lecturer(s):

Vladimír FRANZ, Jan BURIAN

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

Introduces students to the problems of creating and realizing the musical component of an artwork and teaches them to work independently in dramaturgy and directing when handling a specific production.

Mode of study:

Lectures, consultations, Listening exercises.

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

Successful passing of the exam in „The Development and Aesthetics of Music-Drama Thought.“

Recommended optional programme components:

Monitor of acting performances in contemporary Czech film.

Course contents:

Curriculum and syllabus:

Instruction takes place in the form of individual consultations of students who have the task of creating the dramaturgy, directing and realizing the musical component for specific artistic tasks:

For directors and literary advisors:

1)identifying the principles and functions of music in a production;

2)choosing the most appropriate means;

3)building a musical arch as simultaneous dramaturgy;

4)realization:

a/work with instrumentalists

b/work in the studio

c/ distribution of music in the production

d/technical problems of music in a production

For composers:

1)finding and laying out the key dramatic points in a composition;

2)methods of their contextualization;

3)manipulating their meanings;

For filmmakers

1)finding the delicate balance between the optical character of music and film;

2)finding the dynamics, flow and level of diverting attention in relation to music and sound;

3)methods of sound for the entire depicted space and movement of an audio picture;

Recommended or required reading:

G.Černušák: Dějiny evropské hudby

J.Smolka: Skladatelé českého baroka a klasicismu

V.Štěpánek: Francouzská moderní hudba

Branberger: Opera

Očadlík, Hostomská: Opera

J.Trojan: Dějiny opery

J,.Smolka Česká kantáta a oratoritum

Očadlík: Svět orchestu I.-II.

M.Schnierer: Svět orchestu dvatátého století I.-III.

J.Havlík: Česká symfonie po r. 1945

R.Craft: Rozhovory s I.Stravinskym

A.Honneger: Zaříkání zkamanělin, Jsem skladatel

E.Hanslick: O hudebním krásnu, Kritiky.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

Lectures will be supplemented by consultations on student production projects and listening activity.

Assessment methods and criteria:

Class participation. Completion of the director's log music plan.

Course web page:

Note:

Schedule for winter semester 2013/2014:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2013/2014:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Directing for Dramatic Theatre (M.A.) (compulsory subject)
• Directing for Dramatic Theatre in English (M.A.) (compulsory subject)