PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Babulewicz, Katarzyna
TI  - In Search of Stylistic Idiom - Music to the Central-European Cartoons Krtek and Reksio
DP  - 2016 Jun 11
TA  - Musicologica Olomucensia
PG  - 7--28
VI  - 23
IP  - 1
AID - 10.5507/mo.2016.001
IS  - 27879186
AB  - This paper concerns the issue of music in two well-known twentieth-century series - Czechoslovakian Krtek (aired between 1957 and 2002) and Polish Reksio (1967-1990). My aim was to present the wealth of composer's ideas - how they provided the films not only with illustrative fragments and interesting stylizations, but even with autonomous musical images. Soundtracks reveal excellent workshop of their authors, their originality and sense of humor. Sometimes we hear classical like music, another time it is even avant-garde. To show the similiarities and differences between artistic strategies (not only strictly musical) I chose three pairs of cartoons (from both series) which action takes place in the similar surroundings or which refer to the suchlike questions. The article presents the conclusions from audiovisual analysis and therefore the description of music is inseparable from the plot. In the case of Krtek I present films with music of two composers - Miloš Vacek (1928-2012) and Vadim Petrov (1932), in case of Reksio it is one composer - Zenon Kowalowski (1939).