CJBC714 Literature and Music

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2009
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Libor Martinek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Jiří Kudrnáč, CSc.
Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Eva Zachová
Timetable
each odd Wednesday 16:40–19:55 N41
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 40 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/40, only registered: 0/40, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/40
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
This course draws the attention of students closer to the mutual relationship between literature and music, especially where music, its elements and aspects are named, and verbalized as both product and communiqué. The relationship between literature and music is traced on those examples where literature, as the system of signs, represents even syntactic-semantic qualities of musical expression. From the set of specific collaborations of language systems (especially literature as a realization of language semiosis) and music, the course concentrates on several types of vocal and vocal-instrumental music, melodrama, with side laps to the sphere of drama and stage activities (opera, light opera, oratorio, musical) and other possible types of music-literature coexistence on the diachronic axis of the development of world and Czech music, and also genre and mode aspects on the synchronic axis. The seminar is complementarily supplemented with particular sound illustrations. After finishing the course students will be acquainted with the relationship between language and music from the point of view of the development of the history of music and literature in the Czech Republic and in the world.
Syllabus
  • The course will bring the attention of students to the relationship between literature and music in the following branches: mythology and music, literature and music in the historical perspective, music and the ancient middle-east civilizations and ancient Greece, Christian liturgical song, spiritual songs and plays, artificial profane music production, religious song, the relationship between literature and music in ars nova, the relationship between literature and music during the Czech Gothic period and Hussite Movement, in Renaissance, during the period of transalpine Humanism and Reformation, during the period of style synthesis, the relationship between literature and music in the Czech lands in the 16th century, the relationship between literature and music during the Baroque period, opera and song forms of the baroque music in Italy, France, Germany, Czech baroque music, the relationship between literature and music during the period of Classicism in Europe and in the Czech lands, the relationship between literature and music during the period of Romanticism in Europe and in the Czech lands, the relationship between literature and modern world and Czech music, literature and modern pop-music.
Literature
  • Hrčková, Naďa. Dějiny hudby I. Evropský středověk. Praha : Euromedia Group, 2003. ISBN 80-249-0524-8
  • Fukač, Jiří. Interakce hudby a literatury ve světle základních estetických a uměnovědných kategorií. In: Hudba a literatura. Red. Rudolf Pečman. Frýdek-Místek : Okr. vlastivědné muzeum, Praha : Český hudební fond, 1983, s. 10 – 18. 115 s.
  • Colloquium Music & Word. Sborník z konference Hudba a slovo. Red. Rudolf Pečman. Brno : [nákl. vl.], 1973. 292, [4] s.
  • Hrčková, Naďa. Dějiny hudby I. Renesance. Praha : Euromedia Group, 2005. ISBN 80-249-0615-5
  • Fukač, Jiří. O mnohoznačnosti vztahu hudba-slovo. In: Vokální hudba národů. Red. Rudolf Pečman. Brno : Blok, 1976, s. 55 – 73. 207 s.
  • HOSTOMSKÁ, Anna. Opera : průvodce operní tvorbou. Vyd. 10., dopl. Praha: Svoboda, 1999, 696 s. ISBN 8020505784. info
Assessment methods
Reading, discussion about the problems.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught only once.
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