In a collection of essays from prominent music scholas both in the Czech Republic and abroad, this book provides a nuanced overview of major topics connected to the history of musical culture in the Czech lands (Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia) from the Middle Ages to the present. Whereas most previous English-language musicological scholarship on the Czech lands focused solely on music that was understood as ethnically Czech, this book also considers musical cultures of non-Czech groups that lived, and sometimes still live, in the geographical area, most importantly people of German, Jewish, and Romani backgrounds. Spanning over a thousand years, this book combines innovative approaches to present nuanced perspectives on a complicated musical tradition. This is the first overview of music in the Czech lands to provide such an inclusive view of the region's musical developments.
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Martin Nedbal is Professor of Musicology at the University of Kansas. He has authored two monographs: Morality and Viennese Opera in the Age of Mozart and Beethoven (2017) and Mozart's Operas and National Politics: Canon Formation in Prague from 1791 to the Present (2023). Kelly St. Pierre is Professor of Musicology at Wichita State University. She has authored numerous publications, including a monograph on Bedrich Smetana (2017). Her newest research, exploring trauma and memory in Czech folksong scholarship, has been supported by a Fulbright Grant and by Prague's Center for Theoretical Studies. Hana Vlhova-Woerner is a Czech musicologist. She has widely published on Czech medieval music, with focus on liturgical poetry and fifteenth-century vernacular chant. She is author of the four-volume edition of tropes Repertorium Troporum Bohemiae Medii Aevi and general co-editor of the critical edition of the Jistebnice Kancional.
Herausgeber*in
University of Kansas
Wichita State University and Institute for Theoretical Studies, Prague,
University of Basel and Masaryk Institute, Prague
Table of contents; List of musical examples; List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. Before 1800: 1. Medieval traditions of plainchant in Bohemia Hana Vlhova-Woerner; 2. Medieval music and Czech national identity Viktor Velek; 3. Liturgical music of the Bohemian reformation Martin Horyna; 4. Music at the royal and imperial court in Prague Erika Honisch; 5. Music in the Catholic reformation of seventeenth-century Bohemia Geoffrey Chew; 6. Music in Bohemian royal coronations and opera in Prague in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Marc Niubo; 7. Aristocratic patronage of music in the Bohemian crownlands: a series of vignettes Jana Perutkova; 8. The Bohemian Kapellknaben ensemble of Dresden's Catholic court church Janice Stockigt; Part II. The 'Long' Nineteenth Century: 9. Bohemian public music institutions and national politics Martin Nedbal; 10. The emergence of Czech national opera tradition in the nineteenth century Jiri Kopecky; 11. Women and opera in the Czech lands Judith Mabary; 12. Bohemian salon culture in 1820s and 1830s Teplice Anja Bunzel; 13. 'The Very Bosom of our Nation': the dialectic of folk and art music in Bedrich Smetana's Hubicka and Dve vdovy Christopher Campo-Bowen; 14. Choral music and modernity in the Bohemian crownlands in the nineteenth century Karel Sima; 15. Symphonic music in nineteenth-century Czech lands Eva Branda; 16. The politics of Bohemian music criticism and historiography from the late eighteenth to the late twentieth century Martin Nedbal and Kelly St. Pierre; 17. Public music education and the Prague conservatory Lenka Krupkova; Part III. The Twentieth Century and Beyond: 18. The mutual exclusion society: musicology and criticism in early twentieth-century Prague Brian Locke; 19. Janacek's Jenufa and operatic modernism Jiri Zahradka; 20. Avant-garde aspects of Czech interwar music Milos Zapletal; 21. The Jewish musical experience in the Czech lands Michael Beckerman; 22. Czechoslovak musicians in North American exile Brian Locke and Martin Nedbal; 23. Categorizing music, classifying people: music research and race studies in the Czech lands Kelly St. Pierre; 24. The nation's image in songs: folk music research and revival in the twentieth century Matej Kratochvil; 25. Romani music in the Czech Republic Zuzana Jurkova; 26. Decolonial resonances in Czech opera after 1948 Tereza Havelkova; 27. Jazz as sound for the stage: the liberated theater and its progeny David Vondracek; 28. Understanding Czech rock from the period of normalization Jan Blueml; 29. Czech film music Ales Brezina; 30. Czechs in search of Slovak music Vladimir Zvara; 31. Twentieth-century Czech female composers in cultural and political context: the pre-1989 music of Ivana Loudova and Sylvie Bodorova Miriam Bluemlova; 32. Czech classical music in a global world: Jakub Hrusa in conversation with Ales Brezina Ales Brezina and Jakub Hrusa; Bibliography.
