A History of Music in the Czech Lands

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 Bedřich 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 Vlhová-Wörner 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 Kancionál.

• 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 Vlhová-Wörner; 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 Niubò; 7. Aristocratic patronage of music in the Bohemian crownlands: a series of vignettes Jana Perutková; 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 Jiří Kopecký; 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 Bedřich Smetana's Hubička and Dvě vdovy Christopher Campo-Bowen; 14. Choral music and modernity in the Bohemian crownlands in the nineteenth century Karel Šima; 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 Křupková; Part III. The Twentieth Century and Beyond: 18. The mutual exclusion society: musicology and criticism in early twentieth-century Prague Brian Locke; 19. Janáček's Jenůfa and operatic modernism Jiří Zahrádka; 20. Avant-garde aspects of Czech interwar music Miloš 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 Matěj Kratochvíl; 25. Romani music in the Czech Republic Zuzana Jurková; 26. Decolonial resonances in Czech opera after 1948 Tereza Havelková; 27. Jazz as sound for the stage: the liberated theater and its progeny David Vondráček; 28. Understanding Czech rock from the period of normalization Jan Blüml; 29. Czech film music Aleš Březina; 30. Czechs in search of Slovak music Vladimír Zvara; 31. Twentieth-century Czech female composers in cultural and political context: the pre-1989 music of Ivana Loudová and Sylvie Bodorová Miriam Blümlová; 32. Czech classical music in a global world: Jakub Hrůša in conversation with Aleš Březina Aleš Březina and Jakub Hrůša; Bibliography.