Kytice
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Poems
- Kytice
- Poklad (Treasure)
- Svatební košile (The Wedding Shirt)
- Polednice (Lady midday)
- Zlatý kolovrat (The Golden Spinning-Wheel)
- Štědrý den (Christmas Eve)
- Holoubek (Little Dove)
- Záhořovo lože (Záhoř's Bed)
- Vodník (The Water-Goblin)
- Vrba (Willow)
- Lilie (Lily)
- Dceřina kletba (Daughter's Curse)
- Věštkyně (Seeress)
Translations
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Marcela Sulak's translation has been used for subtitling performances of Dvořák's adaptations in Prague and the film version at the Warsaw Film Festival.[1] The edition is illustrated with artwork by Alén Diviš.
Susan Reynolds' translations were years in the making; she had read some of her translations at a symposium at the Antonin Dvořák Museum in Prague in 2004, which were lauded as "brilliant".[2]
Svatební košile was translated under the title "Spectre's Bride" by Josef Štýbr.[3]
Adaptations
The Kytice collection has inspired several adaptations for various media:
- Films
- Kytice, a 2000 Czech drama film directed by F. A. Brabec depicting 7 of the poems: Kytice, Vodník, Svatební košile, Polednice, Zlatý kolovrat, Dceřina kletba, Štědrý den
- Svatební košile, a 1978 Czech animated short directed by Josef Kábrt
- Svatební košile, a 1925 Czech film directed by and starring Theodor Pištěk
- Music
- Svatební košile (The Spectre's Bride), Ballad for soprano, tenor, bass, chorus and orchestra, Op. 69, B. 135 (1884) by Antonín Dvořák
- Svatební košile (The Spectre's Bride), Ballad for soprano, tenor, bass, mixed chorus and orchestra, H. 214 I A (1932) by Bohuslav Martinů
- Polednice (The Noon Witch, or The Noonday Witch), Symphonic Poem for orchestra, Op. 108, B. 196 (1896) by Antonín Dvořák
- Zlatý kolovrat (The Golden Spinning Wheel), Symphonic Poem for orchestra, Op. 109, B. 197 (1896) by Antonín Dvořák
- Štědrý den, Melodrama for narrator and piano or orchestra, Op. 9, H. 198 (1874, 1899) by Zdeněk Fibich
- Holoubek (The Wild Dove), Symphonic Poem for orchestra, Op. 110, B. 198 (1896) by Antonín Dvořák
- Vodník (The Water Goblin), Symphonic Poem for orchestra, Op. 107, B. 195 (1896) by Antonín Dvořák
- Vodník, Melodrama for narrator and orchestra, Op. 15, H. 267 (1883) by Zdeněk Fibich
- Lilie, Melodrama by Otakar Ostrčil
- Lilie, Melodrama for reciter and piano 4-hands, Op. 23 by Eugen Miroslav Rutte
- Kytice, A Tribute to K. J. Erben (2007) by Libor Tinka
- Opera
- Vodník, Opera in 4 acts (1937) by Boleslav Vomáčka; libretto by Adolf Wenig
- Theatre
- Kytice, a 1972 loose musical theatre adaptation by Jiří Suchý and Ferdinand Havlík (music), one of the most popular pieces the Semafor theatre
References
- Citations
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Rechcigl, Miloslav Jr. - (2016), "Marcela Sulak", Encyclopedia of Bohemian and Czech-American Biography, vol. 2, AuthorHouse, ISBN 9781524620691
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Gabrielová, Jarmila (2005), "The Work of Antonin Dvořák (1841–-1904). Aspects of Composition —- Problems of Editing —- Reception, Prague, September 8–11, 2004", Journal of the Institute of Musicology of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, 5: 434
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Erben, Karel Jaromír (1919), "Spectre's Bride", The Czechoslovak Review, 3, Štýbr, Josef (tr.): 298–300
- Bibliography
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- (translations)
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Erben, Karel Jaromír (2012), A Bouquet of Czech Folktales, Sulak, Marcela (tr.), Prague: Twisted Spoon Press, ISBN 9788086264417
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Erben, Karel Jaromír (2013), Kytice, Reynolds, Susan (tr.); Diviš, Alén (illustr.), London: Jantar Publishing, ISBN 978-0-9568890-2-7
- (secondary sources)
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Hames, Peter (2014), "The Czech and Slovak Fairy-Tale Film", Fairy-Tale Films Beyond Disney: International Perspectives, Routeledge, pp. 139–147, ISBN 9781134628131
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External links
- Full Czech language text of Kytice at Wikisource Template:In lang
- Several rhymed translations and an interview with the translator Susan Reynolds at Radio Prague website, 19 September 2004: transcript and RealAudio archive
- A Bouquet Full English translation by Marcela Sulak.
- Kytice Full English translation by Susan Reynolds.
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