Flauto dolce in the Post-War Context of Art Synesthesia: Dedicated to the memory of my father Ladislav Daniel (1922–2015)
Abstract
The postwar situation changed the social atmosphere in the whole world. After World War I, the Dadaist movement and surrealism appeared, like after World War II, Arte povera, or Informel. Artists began to deal with new approaches to art. Interest now was taken in its various branches and among the people a desire for artistic creation increased. The period of general postwar euphoria brought new hope, a resolution to create a new society in the best sense of the word, and bring new ideas into education. In this context, Ladislav Daniel entered and introduced his concept of education. After Orff’s and Kodály’s model, Ladislav Daniel also endeavored to improve music education. Zoltán Kodály himself never wrote a complex method of music education but it should be based on his principles. These were adopted by teachers in many countries, including Ladislav Daniel. Ladislav Daniel‘s revolutionary challenge was writing the school for the soprano recorder and later for the alto recorder (flauto dolce). Another foundation of Daniel’s reform of music education was intonation training by method of tonal method of singing, developed from the work of Guido of Arezzo, a remarkable composer and theoretician of music of the Middle Ages.