Title: Ruthless polyphony and audible silences : musico-dramatic narrative in Otakar Zich's Vina
Source document: Theatralia. 2020, vol. 23, iss. 1, pp. 62-80
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62-80
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ISSN1803-845X (print)2336-4548 (online)
Persistent identifier (DOI): https://doi.org/10.5817/TY2020-1-6
Stable URL (handle): https://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/142550
Type: Article
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License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International
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Abstract(s)
Otakar Zich's opera Vina [Guilt] met with contentious criticism at its premiere in 1922. Nevertheless, its score demonstrates many of the concepts of musico-dramatic narrative outlined in his seminal text, The Aesthetics of Dramatic Art, specifically that of multivocality – the multiple modes of communication perceived through time in continuous unfolding. Vina also employs concepts of silence and sound that resonate with Vladimir Jankélévitch's Music and the Ineffable.
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[6] JANKÉLÉVITCH, Vladimir. 2003. Music and the Ineffable. Transl. by Carolyn Abbate. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003.
[7] JUSOVÁ, Iveta. 2004. Re-inflecting Femininity on the Czech Fin-de-siècle Stage: An Analysis of Hana Kvapilová's Acting Style. Theatre History Studies 24 (June 2004): 35–56.
[8] LOCKE, Brian S. 2006. Opera and Ideology in Prague: Polemics and Practice at the National Theatre, 1900–1938. Rochester, N. Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2006.
[9] LOCKE, Brian S. 2008. The 'Wozzeck Affair': Modernism and the Crisis of Audience in Prague. Journal of Musicological Research 27 (2008): 1: 63–93. | DOI 10.1080/01411890701804788
[10] [N.a.] 1922. Ot. Zich: Vina (Revue kritik) [Otakar Zich: Vina (Overview of Criticism)]. Tempo – Listy Hudební matice 1 (April 1922): 7: 104–107.
[11] PALA, František. 1964. Opera Národního divadla v období Otakara Ostrčila [Opera at the National Theatre in the Era of Otakar Ostrčil], vol. 2. Prague: Divadelní ústav, 1964.
[12] SCHIANO, Michael J. 2001. Grundgestalt [online]. Grove Music Online [accessed on 21. 5. 2019]. Available online at https://doi-org.wiulibraries.idm.oclc.org/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.11868.
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[14] SCHOENBERG, Arnold. 1975. Opinion or Insight? In Leonard Stein (ed.). Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg. 2nd ed., Transl. by Dika Newlin. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1975: 258–264.
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[16] ŠOUREK, Otakar. 1922. Otakar Zich: Vina. Venkov (16. 3. 1922).
[17] ZICH, Otakar. 1914. Moderní opera [Modern Opera]. Osvěta 44 (1914): 481–493; 569–579.
[18] ZICH, Otakar. 1922. Píseň paní Mařákové [Mrs. Mařáková's Song]. Prague: Em. Starý, 1922.
[19] ZICH, Otakar. 1927a. Dramatické možnosti opery [The Dramatic Possibilities of Opera]. In Josef Kodíček and Miroslav Rutte. Nové české divadlo 1918–1926. Prague: Aventinum, 1927: 84–91.
[20] ZICH, Otakar. 1927b. Jak se komponuje opera [How One Composes Opera]. In Nové české divadlo 1927. Prague: Aventinum, 1927: 86–88.
[21] ZICH, Otakar. 1933. Autoři o sobě. U mistra Otakara Zicha [Authors about Themselves: With Maestro Otakar Zich]. Česká hudba 36 (15. 1. 1933): 9: 132–135.
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