Folklorní inspirace ve sborové tvorbě Zdeňka Šestáka
Folk inspirations in Zdeněk Šesták's choir music

Summary/Abstract: In his paper, the author deals with the choral pieces of Zdeněk Šesták (1925) which are inspired by folk songs and folk poetry. He makes a survey of both Šesták's choral arrangements of folk songs and his own compositions on folk verses. The detailed analysis of the 1st movement of cantata Vítej, slunko líbezné results in a generalized characteristics of Šesták's style and approach to folk inspiration. There are few features which connect his music with folk songs - the construction of melody in which the composer uses elements from instrumental melodies and also vocal melodies which are often similar to the melody of rhymes. On the other hand, there are many more features which are different from folk songs: variety of metre, complicated rhythm, incessant change of tonal centres; the music is organized in church and folk modality but the extended tonality prevails. Concerning the form, it is typical that composer mostly avoids the principle of reprise. In general, it is possible to mark these features as the continuity of the style called "Neoclassicism", represented in Czech music e.g. by Bohuslav Martinů or Iša Krejčí.

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