HV_622 Music and literature

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2022
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Taught in person.
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Pavel Sýkora, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. Mgr. Vladimír Maňas, Ph.D. (assistant)
prof. PhDr. Jana Perutková, Ph.D. (alternate examiner)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Jana Perutková, Ph.D.
Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Jan Karafiát
Supplier department: Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Thu 12:00–13:40 N43
Prerequisites
Succesfully passed university entrance exam.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
The aim of the course is the description of the relationships between music and literature in different periods of European culture, since Antiquity till the present. The attention focuses both on the literary impulses for music (subjects, compositional texture) as well as on the musical manifestations in literature. The references to the visual arts, architecture and philosophy are discussed, too. The pars pro toto method focuses on the analysis of selected works of art that represent some world in its theme and thinking.
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course student will be able: to assume better orientation in the individual disciplines in the search for parallels and associations between music and literature, or perhaps other disciplines; to understand of Europian art and thought as a whole, not only as isolated disciplines; to elaborate the ability to analytic thought; to draw and defend the conclusions following from the analysis; to perceive the works of art and literature through variety of approaches.
Syllabus
  • The responses of ancient mythology in literature (Sophocles, Ovid, Virgil etc.) and its metamorphoses in musical settings. Attention is primarily focused on the myths of Orpheus, Ariadne and Oedipus, including their parody. ˂p> Cathartic effect of ancient tragedy and its inspiration for music drama (Lully, Wagner, Berg, Stravinsky etc.). ˂p> Gothic cathedral – an universal “book“ of medieval notion of the world. Its infuence on music (Machaut etc.). ˂p> Dante’s Divine Comedy and its impulses for music. ˂p> Renaissance poetry – the basis for the madrigal writing between the 14th and early 17th centuries: from Petrarch to Marini, from Landini to Monteverdi. ˂p> The sorrow of the Renaissance: Shakespeare, Montaigne, Gesualdo. ˂p> The Italian epic at the age of Renaissance and its impulses for dramatic music of the subsequent epochs: Orlando furioso, Gerusalemme liberata. ˂p> Literary development of the Faust legend (especially Goethe, Thomas Mann) and its responses in music of the Romanticism and the 20th century (Liszt, Mahler, Luboš Fišer etc.). ˂p> The musicality in Thomas Mann’s, James Joyce’s and Milan Kundera’s novels. ˂p> The musical and literary concepts in philosophy of the Romanticism and 20th century (Schopenhauer, Nietzche, Heidegger, Adorno).
Literature
    recommended literature
  • SOFOKLÉS. Tragédie. Translated by Ferdinand Stiebitz - Rudolf Mertlík - Radislav Hošek. První souborné vydání. Praha: Svoboda, 1975, 623 stran. URL info
  • OVIDIUS. Proměny. Translated by Ivan Bureš. 3. vyd., v nakl. Avatar 1. Praha: Avatar, 1998, 438 s. ISBN 8085862255. info
  • KOVÁČ, Peter, Carl F. BARNES, Bruno BOERNER, Jacques LE GOFF, Lindy GRANT, John JAMES, Peter KURMANN, Brigitte KURMANN-SCHWARZ, Willibald SAUERLÄNDER, Hans SEDLMAYR and Wolfgang SCHÖLLER. Katedrála v Remeši : chrám pro korunovace francouzských králů. [Česko]: Ars Auro Prior, 2018, 717 stran. ISBN 9788090429857. info
  • ALIGHIERI, Dante. Božská komedie. Translated by Otto František Babler, Illustrated by Sandro Botticelli. Vyd. 1. Praha: Státní nakladatelství krásné literatury, hudby a umění, 1958, 670 s. URL info
  • PETRARCA, Francesco. Sto sonetů Lauře. Edited by Václav Renč. Vydání druhé, Ve Vyšehra. Praha: Vyšehrad, 2015, 100 stran. ISBN 9788074295225. info
  • Kéž hoří popel můj : z poezie evropského baroka. Edited by Václav Černý. Praha: Mladá fronta, 1967. info
  • SHAKESPEARE, William. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. Edited by Martin Hilský. Vyd. 2. Brno: Atlantis, 2005, 546 s. ISBN 8071082635. info
  • TASSO, Torquato. Osvobozený Jeruzalém. Edited by Alfredo Giuliani, Translated by Jaroslav Pokorný. Vyd. 1. Praha: Odeon, 1980, 298 s. info
  • GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von. Faust. Translated by Otokar Fischer. [Česko]: [nakladatel není známý], 1950, 206 listů. info
  • MANN, Thomas. Doktor Faustus : život německého hudebního skladatele Adriana Leverkühna, vyprávěný jeho přítelem. Vyd. 2., (v SNKLU 1.). Praha: Státní nakladatelství krásné literatury a umění, 1961. info
  • JOYCE, James. Odysseus. Edited by Aloys Skoumal. Vyd. 3., (tohoto překladu 2. Praha: Argo, 1993, 557 s. ISBN 8085794136. info
  • KUNDERA, Milan. Kniha smíchu a zapomnění : román. Edited by Sylvie Richterová. Vydání druhé, autorizovan. V Brně: Atlantis, 2017, 259 stran. ISBN 9788071083672. URL info
  • NIETZSCHE, Friedrich. Zrození tragédie : z ducha hudby. Translated by Otokar Fischer. Praha: Gryf, 1993, 81 s. info
  • HEIDEGGER, Martin. Původ uměleckého díla. Translated by Ivan Chvatík. První vydání. Praha: Oikoymenh, 2016, 119 stran. ISBN 9788072982073. info
  • ADORNO, Theodor W. Filozofie nové hudby. Translated by Daniela Petříčková - Jan Petříček. V Praze: Akademie múzických umění v Praze v Nakladatelství AMU, 2018, 246 stran. ISBN 9788073315122. info
Teaching methods
Lectures accompanied by audial and visual examples. Final discussion on the theme.
Assessment methods
The oral examination based on the themes of course.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
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