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Janáček and Czech music : proceedings of the international conference (Saint Louis, 1988)

Author: Michael Brim Beckerman; Glen Bauer
Publisher: Stuyvesant, NY : Pendragon Press, ©1995.
Series: Studies in Czech music, no. 1.
Edition/Format:   Book : Conference publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Genre/Form: Congresses
Congrès
Named Person: Leoš Janáček; Leoš Janáček
Material Type: Conference publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Michael Brim Beckerman; Glen Bauer
ISBN: 094519336X 9780945193364
OCLC Number: 30546083
Description: xi, 402 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: pt. 1, Janáček and Czech opera. Janáček's recitatives / John Tyrrell ; A new hypothesis on the theme of Janáček's "Russian" operas / Jiří Bajer ; Czech verismo in the 1890's / Jan Smaczny ; "Pleasures and woes" : The vixen's wedding celebration / Michael Beckerman --
pt. 2, Analytical approaches to Janáček's music. The "old" and "new" modality in Janáček's The diary of one who vanished and nursery rhymes / Jaroslav Volek ; Musical and dramatic organization in Janáček's The cunning little vixen / Nors Josephson ; Janáček's First string quartet : Motive and structure of the first movement / Zdenek Skoumal ; Structure and meaning in the first movement of Janáček's Concertino / Fred Maus --
pt. 3, Czech music before Smetana. Antonio Vivaldi and the Sporck Theater in Prague / Daniel E. Freeman ; Jan Dismas Zelenka's setting of Psalm 150 : "Chwalte Boha silného" / Jan Stockigt ; 18th century folk music in the Czech lands : Comments on the state of research / Zdeňka Pilková ; Cantor's music, local repertories and some thoughts on the need for a Bohemian musical topography / Mark Germer ; Vojtěch Jírovec and the Viennese String Quartet / Roger Hickman ; J.V. Voříšek and the fantasy / Kenneth DeLong --
pt. 4, Editorial approaches to Janáček. The principles of the Janáček Critical edition / Jarmil Burghauser ; Editorial guidelines for the Complete edition of Janáček's works / Bärenreiter and Supraphon, publishers ; The performer as co-editor : Proposals for a new complete edition of Janáček's works / Paul Wingfield --
pt. 5, Janáček and the contemporary world. Dvořák and Janáček : New insights into an old friendship / Alan Houtchens ; Romantic and twentieth-century styles in the 1870's : Music for string orchestra by Dvořák and Janáček / David Beveridge ; The program of Balada blanická / Hugh Macdonald ; A reappraisal of Janáček as realist / Marilyn S. Clark ; Czechoslovak presence at Schoenberg's Verein / John H. Yoell ; Henry Cowell, Leoš Janáček and who were the others? / Eva Drlíková ; Leoš Janáček and his influence on Slovak music / Milan Adamčiak --
pt. 6, Janáček's "Danube" symphony. Was Janáček satisfied with his symphony "The Danube"? / Alena Němcová ; Janáček's "Danube" : Some notes on the montage of the symphony by the composer and on its reconstruction from an autographic draft / Miloš Štědroň ; Leoš Janáček's "Danube" symphony : Original and Chlubna versions / Jakob Knaus ; The vocalise in "Danube" symphony / Peter Susskind --
pt. 7, Janáček : Past, present, and future. The reception of Leoš Janáček as seen through a study of the bibliography : A preliminary report / Jaroslav Mráček ; Leoš Janáček today / Jiří Vysloužil ; The controversy between reality and its living in the work of Leoš Janáček / Jaroslav Jiránek ; Janáček and the dance of "categories" / Jiří Fukač.
Series Title: Studies in Czech music, no. 1.
Responsibility: edited by Michael Beckerman and Glen Bauer.

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