Introduction: Why Typology?
Tyllner, Lubomír
2017 - English The national identity issue is constantly topical even in times of strong globalization and acculturation tendencies. Music, especially its most fundamental layer - traditional music, also helps to define national identity. Therefore, determining the basic types of Czech folk music is one of the major tasks of ethnomusicological research. Keywords: typology; traditional music; computer analysis; history of musicethnologie; national identity Available at various institutes of the ASCR Introduction: Why Typology?

The national identity issue is constantly topical even in times of strong globalization and acculturation tendencies. Music, especially its most fundamental layer - traditional music, also helps to ...

Tyllner, Lubomír
Etnologický ústav, 2017

Traditional Rural Festivity in an Urban Space and Dichotomy of Public and Private: The Music and Dance Repertory Process - Introduction
Stavělová, Daniela; Černíčková, K.; Kratochvíl, Matěj
2017 - English Keywords: carnival; urbanisation; Prague; music; dance Available at various institutes of the ASCR Traditional Rural Festivity in an Urban Space and Dichotomy of Public and Private: The Music and Dance Repertory Process - Introduction

Stavělová, Daniela; Černíčková, K.; Kratochvíl, Matěj
Etnologický ústav, 2017

Towards a Typology of Czech Traditional Song and Music
Tyllner, Lubomír
2017 - English This article therefore aims at a complex analysis of traditional music and its typology. On the basis of musical analysis, the im is to establish a typology of the Czech traditional folk song and music, to delineate historical, regional and or national features of Czech traditional music and thus help to incorporate it into a broader European musical and cultural context. Keywords: traditional culture; ethnomusicology; typology; traditional music; comparative analysis; traditional song style Available at various institutes of the ASCR Towards a Typology of Czech Traditional Song and Music

This article therefore aims at a complex analysis of traditional music and its typology. On the basis of musical analysis, the im is to establish a typology of the Czech traditional folk song and ...

Tyllner, Lubomír
Etnologický ústav, 2017

Negotiating the Place for a Dance
Stavělová, Daniela
2017 - English The text focuses on the observation of the process during the features of traditional culture are transformed for the purposes of the present urban context. The study explores a rural carnival (called masopust in Czech Republic) in some districts of Prague since the early 1990s into a present festivity involving local people as participants. The process of rethinking carnival and (re)constructing the dance and music repertory is studied from the perspective of urbanisation. The contribution is based on the observation of the dichotomy of public/private space appropriated by the dance. Its goal is to disclose the role of the recent music and dance repertory in the process of local identity building. Keywords: carnival; dance; music; urbanisation; Prague Available at various institutes of the ASCR Negotiating the Place for a Dance

The text focuses on the observation of the process during the features of traditional culture are transformed for the purposes of the present urban context. The study explores a rural carnival (called ...

Stavělová, Daniela
Etnologický ústav, 2017

Folklore in the mirror of individual and social interests (a case study of the Czech ethnologist František Pospíšil)
Uhlíková, Lucie; Pavlicová, M.
2017 - English The paper demonstrates how the research aims and the interpretation of researched topics can be determined both by individual interests as well as by social context. František Pospíšil (1885–1958), a noted ethnologist from Brno, was one of the first Czech scholars who used a phonograph to record dialects and folk singing, and a film camera to research dance traditions. Keywords: folklore; folk dance; sword dance; dance and film; phonograph; František Pospíšil; Leoš Janáček Fulltext is available at external website. Folklore in the mirror of individual and social interests (a case study of the Czech ethnologist František Pospíšil)

The paper demonstrates how the research aims and the interpretation of researched topics can be determined both by individual interests as well as by social context. František Pospíšil (1885–1958), a ...

Uhlíková, Lucie; Pavlicová, M.
Etnologický ústav, 2017

To Fit in the Line. Otakar Ostrčil as a Vehicle for Nejedlý’s Vision of the History of Czech Music
Kratochvílová, Markéta
2016 - English The relation of Otakar Ostrčil and Zdeněk Nejedlý presents a striking case of a biographer using his subject as a vehicle for his own ideas and for presentation of a particular historiographical conception of the history of modern Czech music. Keywords: Otakar Ostrčil; Zdeněk Nejedlý; Czech music history Available at various institutes of the ASCR To Fit in the Line. Otakar Ostrčil as a Vehicle for Nejedlý’s Vision of the History of Czech Music

The relation of Otakar Ostrčil and Zdeněk Nejedlý presents a striking case of a biographer using his subject as a vehicle for his own ideas and for presentation of a particular historiographical ...

Kratochvílová, Markéta
Etnologický ústav, 2016

At the beginning was politics : Some glosses about so called „gubernial” collector´s action
Toncrová, Marta
2016 - English Interesting things about the genesis, course and next fates of the oldiest collection of folk songs in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia. Keywords: Collection of folk songs; 1819; Bohemia; Moravia; Silesia; Folk songs; folk song collecting Fulltext is available at external website. At the beginning was politics : Some glosses about so called „gubernial” collector´s action

Interesting things about the genesis, course and next fates of the oldiest collection of folk songs in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia.

Toncrová, Marta
Etnologický ústav, 2016

The Innovation of Tradition: Male folk choirs in the Slovácko region and their beginnings
Uhlíková, Lucie
2016 - English The study reflects the difference between the preservation of cultural heritage and the living, or innovated tradition, on an example of the repertoire\nof male folk voice choirs in the ethnographic area of Slovácko. Keywords: Field research; ethnocultural traditions; ethnology; transformation of tradition; male voice folk choirs; the Slovácko region Fulltext is available at external website. The Innovation of Tradition: Male folk choirs in the Slovácko region and their beginnings

The study reflects the difference between the preservation of cultural heritage and the living, or innovated tradition, on an example of the repertoire\nof male folk voice choirs in the ethnographic ...

Uhlíková, Lucie
Etnologický ústav, 2016

Losses and Gains: Mozart’s Sacred Works in Bohemian Monastic and parish Music Collections in his Time and in the 19th Century
Freemanová, Michaela
2016 - English The article deals with Mozart’s sacred music in the Bohemian monastic and parish music collections in the composer’s lifetime and in the 19th century Keywords: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; sacred music; monastic and parish music collections Available at various institutes of the ASCR Losses and Gains: Mozart’s Sacred Works in Bohemian Monastic and parish Music Collections in his Time and in the 19th Century

The article deals with Mozart’s sacred music in the Bohemian monastic and parish music collections in the composer’s lifetime and in the 19th century

Freemanová, Michaela
Etnologický ústav, 2016

The hidden and lost Treasury: the 18th Century opera Arias in the Collections ofd ther brothers Hospitallers
Freemanová, Michaela
2013 - English In the collections of Brothers Hospitallers, surviving in Bohemian and Moravian museums, there are numerous opera arias, most of them with underlaid Latin sacred texts, replacing the original Italian words. The article researches their origins. Keywords: opera; Italy; Brothers Hospitallers Available at various institutes of the ASCR The hidden and lost Treasury: the 18th Century opera Arias in the Collections ofd ther brothers Hospitallers

In the collections of Brothers Hospitallers, surviving in Bohemian and Moravian museums, there are numerous opera arias, most of them with underlaid Latin sacred texts, replacing the original Italian ...

Freemanová, Michaela
Etnologický ústav, 2013