History and forms of musical theatre 2

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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

Course contents:

The second semester will be devoted to the development of the Czech musical from its forerunners (including: Liberated Tehatre V+W) to the present, when the Czech musical developed its own particular path from events in „domestic“ countries (forerunners, Finians Rainbow, Jiří Frejka and Alfréd Radok, intrusion of foreign musicals, musicals, musical boom of the 1960s, the musicals of Vrastislav Blažek, the musical vs. small theatre, musicals during normalization, The Czech musical world of the 1990s, forms of contemporary Czech musicals).

Recommended or required reading:

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