William Shakespeare a hudba – transformácia dramatického textu do hudobnej výpovede Giju Kančeliho
William Shakespeare and Music – Transformation of Dramatic Text into Musical Expression by Giya Kancheli

Summary/Abstract: Over the course of four centuries Shakespeareʼs creative body of work has expanded into numerous other existential art forms, mainly music and musical-and-dramatic arts. The Georgian artist Giya Kancheli (1935), one of the icons of postmodernist music, stands among those composers who are strongly inspired by the dramas and poetry of Shakespeare. The most dominant area of Kanecheliʼs musical work inspired by playwright is represented music to Shakespeareʼs dramas (10), the requiem Lichte Trauer for two boys’ voices, boys’ choir and orchestra (1984–85), reworked music from previous artworks in the form of the extremely successful album Notes from the Songbook (2009), and others. The musical work, Styx, for mixed choir, viola and orchestra (1999), to which composer himself wrote the text (vocal part), will be the focal point of my analysis. A fragment of text from The Winterʼs Tale by Shakespeare is used at the end of the musical work. It is paraphrased by the composer with emphasis on metric and phonetic aspects that strongly inspire the resulting shape from the point of tectonics and timbre.

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