DVH013 From J. Cage to Multimedia Art

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2001
Extent and Intensity
0/0. 2 credit(s) (plus 1 credit for an exam). Recommended Type of Completion: k (colloquium). Other types of completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Dana Toncrová (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Dr. Július Gajdoš, Ph.D.
Department of Theatre Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Marie Sochorová
Prerequisites (in Czech)
nevyžadují se
Course Enrolment Limitations
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Course objectives
The aim of this lecture is to define a set of musical dramatic manifestations. These manifestations on purpose dissociate from dramaturgic norms of the traditional genres (opera, musical drama) and the aspire to bring in a new kinds of musical, design, linguistic as well as kinetic components into the structure of drama. The lectures will in paricular concentrate on the period after 1950 when new compositional techniques emerged and when there was a radical change in apprehension of the nature of music theatre. Widely differentiated tendencies of the neo avant-garde, the possibilities of audio-visual technologies anr the development of mass media cause, especially in Amerika and Western Europe, that there are more and more attempts to combine music and scene in new ways. The lectures will deal with the production ranging from the forms that emphasise musical quality of music over instrumental theatre and anti-opera to extreme forms like happening and multimedia productions. We will attempt to look at these tendencies in the context of the social situation and the development of theatre in the second half of 20th century.
Syllabus
  • - social and cultural situation after 1945 - production of John Cage - theatrical music - musical theatre (Berio, Ligeti, Stockhausen,ad.) - instrumental theatre (Kagel) - politically committed musical theatre (Nono, Henze)
Assessment methods (in Czech)
přednáška, každý týden, kolokvium 2 kr, zkouška (+1kr)
Language of instruction
Czech
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