A history of music in the Czech lands
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Authors
Nedbal, Martin
St. Pierre, Kelly
Vlhová-Wörner, Hana
Advisors
Issue Date
2025
Type
Book
Keywords
Music--Czech Republic--History and criticism , Jews--Czech Republic--Music--History and criticism , Romanies--Czech Republic--Music--History and criticism , Germans--Czech Republic--Music--History and criticism
Citation
Nedbal, M., St. Pierre, K., & Vlhová-Wörner, H. (Eds.). (2025). A history of music in the Czech lands. Cambridge University Press.
Abstract
"An overview of major topics connected to the history of musical culture in what is now the Czech Republic. Whereas most previous musicological scholarship focused on music that was understood as ethnically Czech, this book also considers German, Jewish, and Romani musics from the region." (Provided by publisher)
Table of Contents
Part I: Before 1800. Medieval Traditions of Plainchant in Bohemia / Hana Vlhová-Wörner ; Medieval Music and Czech National Identity / Viktor Velek* ; Liturgical Music of the Bohemian Reformation / Martin Horyna+ ; Music at the Royal and Imperial Court in Prague / Erika Honisch ; Music in the Catholic Reformation of Seventeenth-Century Bohemia / Geoffrey Chew ; Music in Bohemian Royal Coronations and Opera in Prague in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries / Marc Niubò* ; Aristocratic Patronage of Music in the Bohemian Crownlands : A Series of Vignettes / Jana Perutková* ; The Bohemian Kapellknaben Ensemble of Dresden's Catholic Court Church / Janice Stockigt -- Part II: The "Long" Nineteenth Century. Bohemian Public Music Institutions and National Politics / Martin Nedbal ; The Emergence of Czech National Opera Tradition in the Nineteenth Century / Jiří Kopecký* ; Women and Opera in the Czech Lands / Judith Mabary ; Bohemian Salon Culture in 1820s and 1830s Teplice / Anja Bunzel ; "The Very Bosom of our Nation" : The Dialectic of Folk and Art Music in Bedřich Smetana's Hubička and Dvě vdovy / Christopher Campo-Bowen ; Choral Music and Modernity in the Bohemian Crownlands in the Nineteenth Century / Karel Šima* ; Symphonic Music in Nineteenth-Century Czech Lands / Eva Branda ; The Politics of Bohemian Music Criticism and Historiography from Late Eighteenth to Late Twentieth Century / Martin Nedbal and Kelly St. Pierre ; Public Music Education and the Prague Conservatory / Lenka Křupková* -- Part III: Twentieth Century and Beyond. The Mutual Exclusion Society : Musicology and Criticism in Early Twentieth-Century Prague / Brian Locke ; Janáček's Jenůfa and Operatic Modernism / Jiří Zahrádka* ; Avant-garde Aspects of Czech Interwar Music / Miloš Zapletal* ; The Jewish Musical Experience in the Czech Lands / Michael Beckerman ; Czechoslovak Musicians in North American Exile / Brian Locke and Martin Nedbal ; Categorizing Music, Classifying People : Music Research and Race Studies in the Czech Lands / Kelly St. Pierre ; The Nation's Image in Songs : Folk Music Research and Revival in the Twentieth Century / Matěj Kratochvíl* ; Romani Music in the Czech Republic / Zuzana Jurková* ; Decolonial Resonances in Czech Opera after 1948 / Tereza Havelková ; Jazz as Sound for the Stage : The Liberated Theater and its Progeny / David Vondráček* ; Understanding Czech Rock from the Period of Normalization / Jan Blüml* ; Czech Film Music / Aleš Březina* ; Czechs in Search of Slovak Music / Vladimír Zvara* ; Twentieth-Century Czech Female Composers in Cultural and Political Context : The Pre-1989 Music of Ivana Loudová and Sylvie Bodorová / Miriam Blümlová* ; Czech Classical Music in a Global World : Jakub Hrůša in Conversation with Aleš Březina / Aleš Březina and Jakub Hrůša*.
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Cambridge University Press