VH_754 Music dramaturgy in audiovisual media

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2009
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr.art. Stanislav Grich, Ph.D. (lecturer), PhDr. Petr Macek, Ph.D. (deputy)
doc. Mgr. Vladimír Maňas, Ph.D. (assistant)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Jana Perutková, Ph.D.
Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Vlasta Taranzová
Timetable
each odd Thursday 13:20–16:35 J22
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 70 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/70, only registered: 0/70, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/70
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Course objectives
Our goal is to inform students of music dramaturgy as an integral part of dramaturgy of audio-visual production. The intention is to stimulate perception of music-pictorial connections as the form-creating elements of a film work. The emphasis will be put on revealing the hierarchical relations, and interconnection between the expressing means of music and picture in succession of audience’s perception. The unique systematics of relations of music and picture also includes an excursion into the history of music and points out to expression and symbolism of particular historical and genre types of music. Lectures will be accompanied by an analysis of music dramaturgy of the specific films.
After having attended the lectures a student will be able to define levels of music-pictorial connections and to interpret them within the arbitrary film works. Students will acquire knowledge necessary for the evaluation of artistic quality of music dramaturgy.
Syllabus
  • 1.Introduction to music dramaturgy. Basic expressing means of music.
  • 2.Source Music and Dramatic Underscore Music. Levels of music-pictorial connections: level of actual relations, spectral level, time level.
  • 3 Style and Genre Characteristic
  • Ancient History, the Middle Ages
  • Renaissance, Baroque
  • Classicism, Romanticism
  • Impressionism, Music of 20th century
  • Contemporary classical music
  • 4. Levels of music and film connections – level of musical expression, level of musical interpretation, level of musical narration. Semiotic categories in film music.
  • 5. Principles of Correspondence of Music and Film Image Synchrony and Asynchrony of Visual Image and Music
  • Natural Counterpoint of Visual Image and Music
  • Convergent and Divergent Counterpoint of Visual Image and Music
  • Impressive Counterpoint of Visual Image and Music
  • Associative Counterpoint of Visual Image and Music
  • 6. Subjective and Objective Music. Contemporary music dramaturgy of film and television production
Literature
  • MATZNER, Antonín and Jiří PILKA. Česká filmová hudba. Praha: Dauphin, 2002, 453 s. ISBN 80-7272-013-9. info
Teaching methods
Lectures with audiovisual examples.
analysis of music dramaturgy of film
discussion
Assessment methods
Attendance to lectures is emphatically recommended. With acceptable excuse students may miss maximum 3 lectures, i.e. attendance minimum is 75%.
Written exams (no tests).
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
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