Hudba ako dynamický systém – teoretické východiská a analytická perspektíva
Music as a Dynamical System – Theoretical Foundations and an Analytical Perspective.

Summary/Abstract: The study conceives the musical work as a dynamical system and offers a historical reconstruction of views on music as a dynamic process in twentieth-century European music theory, with particular emphasis on the Czech and Slovak tradition of tectonics. It focuses on concepts of musical dynamism and dynamic form in the writings of Ernst Kurth, Hans Mersmann, Otakar Zich, Boris Asafyev, Ladislav Burlas, Karel Janeček, Karel Risinger, Jozef Kresánek, and their successors, tracing how dynamizing forces (such as tension–release, contrast–identity, and centripetal and centrifugal tendencies) are projected into the process of form-building. The notion of a dynamical system is first introduced autonomously in the context of mathematics and physics, without any direct transfer into music-theoretical discourse. Subsequently, the study proposes a theoretical synthesis: it understands musical form as a dynamical system defined by state space, time domain, and an evolutionary rule, and demonstrates how tectonically relevant parameters (kinetics, harmony, loudness) can be quantified and tracked over time. This framework opens up a path for applying methodology of dynamical systems to the study of musical form.

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