Harmonie v nesnázích: několik poznámek k Hábově Neue Harmonielehre

• Authors: Lubomír Spurný

Title variants

EN

Harmony in trouble. Some comments on Haba's Neue 'Harmonielehre'

DE

Die Harmonie in Not: Einige Bemerkungen zu Hábas Neuer Harmonielehre

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

This article is a critical interpretation of selected theoretical musical ideas of the Czech composer Alois Hába (1893–1973), which first appeared in his book Neue Harmonielehre (1927). This work is generally considered to be the author‘s individual expression of his own creative ideas. However, it also links to the past, specifically to the Bohemian theorists who were not influenced by Riemann’s Funktionstheorie. Hába‘s work becomes of greater value when one considers its links to the work of Arnold Schönberg. The interpretation uses a copy of Hába‘s Neue Harmonielehre annotated by Schönberg, now in the Arnold Schönberg Center in Vienna. Much of what has been said by Schönberg (in the field of Harmonielehre), appears in a different forms in Hába‘s work. His effort to differ Schönberg, whilst at the same time finding a common ground, can easily be followed in the discussion on dissonances (including harmonic dissonances), as well as accentuating the importance of keys and the harmony of fourths. The passage on aesthetic production (principles of the creation of a work of art) is of special interest.

Keywords

EN

harmony; music theory

• Publisher: Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Hudební věda (Musicology)
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 44
• Issue: 3-4
• Pages: 261-288
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Lubomír Spurný

• Umění, redakce, Ústav dějin umění AV ČR, v.v.i., Husova 4, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic