Ruthless polyphony and audible silences : musico-dramatic narrative in Otakar Zich's Vina

Brian S. Locke

doi:10.5817/TY2020-1-6

Ruthless polyphony and audible silences : musico-dramatic narrative in Otakar Zich's Vina

Vol.23,No.1(2020)

Brian S. Locke

https://doi.org/10.5817/TY2020-1-6

Stable URL (handle):
http://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/142550

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Abstract

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.

Keywords:
opera history; musico-dramatic narrative; Otakar Zich; Vladimir Jankélévitch

Pages:
62–80

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