Musicologica Olomucensia vol. 22, (2015):61-78 | DOI: 10.5507/mo.2015.013

Hudební analýza mytologického myšlení v díle Clauda Lévi-Strausse

David Kozel
Katedra hudební výchovy, Pedagogická fakulta, Ostravská univerzita v Ostravě, Fráni Šrámka 3, Ostrava-Mariánské Hory, 709 00, Czech Republic

Studie se zabývá hudební linií díla Clauda Lévi-Strausse v kontextu muzikologie se zaměřením na cyklus Mythologiques. Cílem je vytvořit tematické okruhy, do kterých jednotlivé teze spadají, a ve kterých jsou dále kontextově chápány. Vybrané odkazy v jeho textech k hudbě byly analyzovány, komparovány a interpretovány se zohledněním teorií strukturální lingvistiky a antropologie. Jako předmět zkoumání jsme zvolili systém vztahů mezi jazykem, mýtem a hudbou, analýzu mýtu pomocí hudební partitury, teze o hudbě a mýtu jako nástrojů k ničení času, mytologický charakter hudebních forem, analýzu Bolera Maurice Ravela. Zohledněny jsou aktuální muzikologické aplikace strukturální analýzy mýtu a kritická reflexe Lévi-Straussovy teorie. Jednotlivé okruhy byly vymezeny jako strukturní homologie mýtu a hudby, metodologické nástroje metaforického typu k analýze mýtu pomocí hudby, oblast komentářů ke stylovým a formovým zákonitostem vývoje evropské umělecké hudby a skladatelských poetik.

Keywords: Claude Lévi-Strauss, strukturalizmus, Mythologiques, etnomuzikologie, mýtus, mytologie, hudba, hudební analýza, Bolero

A Musical Analysis of Mythical Thought in the Work of Claude Lévi-Strauss

This study addresses the music-related aspects of the works of Claude Lévi-Strauss within the context of musicology and with a specific focus placed on his Mythologiques tetralogy. The aim is to define thematic categories for the individual theses within which they are further contextually understood. Selected references to music from Lévi-Strauss's work were analysed, compared, and interpreted, taking into consideration the theories of structural linguistics and anthropology. The topics chosen for the investigation include the system of relationships between language, mythology, and music, the analysis of myths using musical scores, the thesis that both music and myth are instruments that suppress time, the mythical nature of musical forms, and an analysis of Maurice Ravel's Bolero. The study takes into account current musicological applications that use the structural analysis of myths, and also critical reflections regarding Lévi-Strauss's theories. The individual categories were defined as structural homologies of myth and music, methodological tools of a metaphorical type to analyse myths using music, and the area commenting on the principles governing the styles and forms in the development of European art music and composed poetry.

Keywords: Claude Lévi-Strauss, structuralism, Mythologiques, ethnomusicology, myth, mythology, music, musical analysis, Bolero

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Kozel, D. (2015). Hudební analýza mytologického myšlení v díle Clauda Lévi-Strausse. Musicologica Olomucensia, 22, Article 61-78. https://doi.org/10.5507/mo.2015.013
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