Music in the Past of Český Krumlov and Some Characteristic Traits of the Cultivation of Music in Bohemia from 1500 to 1800

• Authors: Horyna Martin
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The town of Cesky Krumlov served in the past as a traditional seat for important noble families. Several institutions, each having its own tasks but also capable of collaborating with the others on special occasions, shared in providing music in the castle, the church, and other locations. Comparison with the situation in other towns indicates that around 1500, in conditions of a consolidated post-Hussite society in which lay persons took over a portion of responsibilities in churches from the institutionalized church, whose property they had secularized, there arose in Bohemia a model of musical life whereby professional, semi-professional, and amateur performers, whose indispensable base was in the schools, joined forces in churches and noble residences. This model made possible the blossoming of Bohemian musicality in the eighteenth century, and continued to function into the second half of the nineteenth century or, in some respects, even longer. It finally waned as a consequence of social changes that were projected into the school system, whereby training in church singing and in the playing of instruments was replaced by practical instruction.

Keywords

EN

INSTITUTIONS; MUSIC IN TOWN; MUSIC PERFORMATION; MUSICAL LIFE

Discipline

• ARTS_&_ARCHITECTURE: ARTS & ARCHITECTURE

• Publisher: Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Hudební věda (Musicology)
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 46
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 229-240
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Horyna Martin

• Martin Horyna, Jihoceska univerzita v Ceskych Budejovicich, Pedagogicka fakulta, Czech Republic; http://dlib.lib.cas.cz/4826/

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10CZAAAA073817