Music in Theatre Performance - Course 1

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Code Completion Credits Range Language Instruction Semester
201HVI1 Z 1 kurz Czech winter

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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“.

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.

Assessment methods and criteria

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

Further information

No schedule has been prepared for this course

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