RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
A1 Přibylová, Lenka
T1 Expressive Possibilities of Contemporary Czech Melodrama with a Focus on the Works of Václav Bůžek, Petr Ježil and Martin Hybler
JF Musicologica Olomucensia
YR 2010
VO 12
IS 2
SP 239
OP 247
DO 10.5507/mo.2010.028
UL https://musicologica.upol.cz/artkey/mus-201002-0020.php
AB This paper begins with an overall view of the expressive potential of melodrama as a musical genre. The musical production of current Czech composers (Václav Bůžek, Petr Ježil and Martin Hybler) typically varies in their compositional styles and focus. In melodrama they concentrate on contrasting literary/thematic topics which therefore offer and result in specific compositions. In the melodrama and its interpretation elective course taught at the Music Department of the Pedagogical Faculty of Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem the author also dealt with the interpretation of the melodramas of the composers mentioned above. (DVD examples of these melodramas were shown at the conference.)