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IMPRINTS: Essays on Czech Music and Aesthetics “Important new material, profound questions, significant repertoire!
Jan Vičar provides them all in this stimulating volume, elegant in
its style and far reaching in its scope. It will be of interest to
all scholars interested in Czech topics, and more broadly to anyone
engaged with the most fundamental and fascinating questions in our
field.”
(Michael Beckerman) “There are few opportunities to read Czech scholars writing about Czech
music. Here, in clear and fluent English, is one of the most active Czech
musicologists of our day. Jan Vičar’s writing on Janáček is especially
valuable in that it presents a comprehensive picture of up-to-date Czech
thought, attitudes and theories about two of Janáček’s most individual
and puzzling pieces, The Diary of One Who Disappeared and Taras Bulba.”
(John Tyrrell)
- audio CD enclosed
- 78 minutes of music, 20 compositions
The fifth book of Czech musicologist and composer Jan Vičar consists of
essays on the music of Leoš Janáček, contemporary Czech composers, Czech
music in the U. S. and during the Second World War, the role of European
classical music in today’s world, music aesthetics and criticism, general
aesthetics and the theory of art, as well as an interview with George Crumb
and Vičar’s Fanfare for Palacký University. It is divided into the following
chapters:
- Music
Against the War
- Echoes
of Czech Music in America
- ‘Unknown’
Czech Music after 1945
- The
Film Music of Václav Trojan
- Leoš
Janáček’s Diary of One Who Disappeared
- Leoš
Janáček’s Taras Bulba
- Contemplations
on Zdeněk Fibich’s Poem
- The
Subject, Methods, and Significance of Aesthetics
- Essay
on Music Criticism
- European
Classical Music in Today’s World
- Poetry
of Life: Interview with George Crumb
- Fanfare
for Palacký University
Some pages from
the book available for reading and printing in PDF format:  -
complete table of contents of the book (1 page)
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preface of the publication (1 page)
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(7 pages)
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complete contents of CD (names, authors, performers, durations, etc.) - 3
pages
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