Moravské písně milostné – nedoceněný milník moravské hudební folkloristiky

• Authors: Marta Toncrová , Lucie Uhlíková

Title variants

EN

Moravian Love Songs – an unappreciated milestone in Moravian musical folkloristics

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The study sets out the first scientifically treated Czech edition of songs – Moravské písně milostné [Moravian Love Songs] prepared by the composer Leoš Janáček and the philologist Pavel Váša, and published in parts between 1930 and 1937. The authors assess the collection´s importance, explain the reasons why its publishing lasted for more than twenty years (and Janáček did not live to see it), set out an unusual structure of the edition as well as possible causes for the insufficient appreciation of the work. They state that within the Czech context, the publication is a unique event in publishing for more reasons: 1. it can justly be described as the first scientifically treated edition of one sort of songs in the Czech folkloristic research; 2. based on a peculiar conception, mainly by Leoš Janáček, the material is divided into groups of songs based on the relationship between the musical and the literary component as well as the psychic and the emotional effect; 3. it is the first scientific edition supplemented with a lot of registers, although that part of the work has not overcome initial difficulties yet and it has introduced many inaccuracies into the collection; as a collection of love songs from Moravia and Silesia, it represents an important stage of development on the way to a model edition of scientific type.

Keywords

EN

folk song; scientific edition of folk songs ethnomusicology; Das Volkslied in Österreich; Leoš Janáček; Pavel Váša

Discipline

• ETHNOLOGY: ETHNOLOGY

• Publisher: The National Institute of Folk Culture
• Journal: Národopisná revue (Journal of Ethnology)
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 27
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 44 - 59

Contributors

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Marta Toncrová

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Lucie Uhlíková