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Subject guarantor:

Name of lecturer(s):

Pavel BÁR

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

The student, upon completion of the course, will have a bearing in the basic history of world and Czech musicals. The student will be able to recognize the main types and genre forms of musicals and arrange a selected work into the context of the overal development of music-entertainment theatre with an awareness of its particulars (producer based operations, relation to the development of popular music, technological developments, etc.)

Mode of study:

Attended course, contact, independent research.

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

None

Recommended optional programme components:

No further recommended optional study components.

Course contents:

This two-semester course combines lectures and classes. In the first semester examples of pivotal works and staging intentions of the main development tendencies of world musicals from its forerunners to the present including today's main trends are used. (forerunners, the rise of the musical, the golden era of the American musical, West Side Story, influence of rock on musical theatre, main music trends of the 1970s and 80s, musical superlatives, jukebox musical, European and Asian Musical world, contemporary development trends).

Recommended or required reading:

BÁR, P. (2013) Od operety k muzikálu (Zábavněhudební divadlo v Československu po roce 1945), dissertations at DAMU Praha (for publishing).

BÁR, P. / PROSTĚJOVSKÝ, M. (2012) Fenomén „český“ muzikál, Disk 2012, č. 39: 120?131.

BERNSTEIN, L. (1969) Hudbou k radosti, Praha (vybrané kapitoly)

BEZ, H. / DEGENHARDT, J. / HOFMANN, H. P. (1981) Musical, Berlin.

EVERETT, W. A. (2002) The Cambridge Companion to the Musical, Cambridge.

GERATHS, A. (2002) Musical. Das unterhaltende Genre, Laaber.

JONES, J. B. (2003) Our Musicals, Ourselves, Hanover a London.

KOTEK, J. (1998) Dějiny české populární hudby a zpěvu (1918-1968), Praha (vybrané kapitoly).

LAMB, A. (2000) 150 Years of Popular Musical Theatre, New Haven, London.

MARKLOVÁ, M. (red., 1962) Nová československá operetní tvorba, Praha.

MARKLOVÁ, M. (red., 1980) Nová česká operetní a muzikálová tvorba, Praha.

MARKLOVÁ, M. (red., 1990) Nová česká operetní a muzikálová tvorba, Praha.

OSOLSOBĚ, I. (1967) Muzikál je, když..., Praha.

OSOLSOBĚ, I. (1974) Divadlo, které mluví, zpívá a tančí, Praha (vybrané kapitoly).

OSOLSOBĚ, I. (1996) Marsyas, Apollón a Dionýsos I., II., Brno (vybrané kapitoly).

PROSTĚJOVSKÝ, M. (2008) Muzikál Expres, Brno.

PROSTĚJOVSKÝ, M. ,Muzikál nového milénia, Divadelní noviny 2011, č. 18: 14.

SCHMIDT-JOOS, S. (1968) Muzikál, Praha (vč. vstupních poznámek a dodatků k českému vydání od Ivo Osolsobě).

SUCHÝ, J. (1991) Od Reduty k Semaforu, Praha.

[MARKLOVÁ, M.] ([red.], 1970) Nová česká a slovenská operetní i musicalová tvorba, Praha.

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Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

Lecture, moderated discussion. Part of instruction in both semesters will be sample screenings of foreign and domestic stagings and film musicals.

Assessment methods and criteria:

Required: each semester a report on a selected topic (the basis for the final written work), 75% attendance and class participation.

During each semester the student chooses to write a report on a previously selected topic based on the analysis of a musical.

In the first semester a foreign work is analyzed (primarily from a audiovisual recording. In the summer semester one currently running domestic production is selected.

Each semester the student completes the written work, originating from the report, which must demonstrate the knowledge of the aforementioned requirements, particularly the ability to independently analyze a piece and staging and arrange into a historical, type and genre.

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Note:

Schedule for winter semester 2014/2015:

	06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon
Tue	místnost S412 Učebna (Karlova 26, Praha 1) BÁR P. 13:00–14:30 (přednášková par. 1)
Wed
Thu
Fri

Date	Day	Time	Tutor	Location	Notes	No. of paralel
	Tue	13:00–14:30	BÁR P.	Učebna Karlova 26, Praha 1		přednášková par. 1

Schedule for summer semester 2014/2015:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Directing and Dramaturgy for Dramatic Theatre (B.A.) (optional subject)
• Dramaturgy for Dramatic Theatre (M.A.) (optional subject)
• Theory and criticism (M.A.) (compulsory optional subject)
• Directing for Dramatic Theatre (M.A.) (optional subject)
• Directing and Dramaturgy for Alternative and Puppet Theatre (B.A.) (optional subject)
• Dramaturgy for Alternative and Puppet Theatre (M.A.) (optional subject)
• Directing for Alternative and Puppet Theatre (M.A.) (optional subject)