"Lift Thy Voice": Musical Aspects of Jan Augusta's Work at Křivoklát Castle
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.54759/MUSICOLOGY-2025-0201" target="_blank" >10.54759/MUSICOLOGY-2025-0201</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
"Lift Thy Voice": Musical Aspects of Jan Augusta's Work at Křivoklát Castle
Original language description
Within evaluations of the literary work of the bishop Jan Augusta (1500-1572) of the Unity of the Brethren, references to his extraordinarily prolific hymnwriting are very frequent. Research on manuscripts originating from the time of Augusta's imprisonment at Křivoklát Castle (1548-1564) and kept today in the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek in Vienna with the signatures 7452 and 7457 has enabled recognition of this work as more complex than previous studies had imagined. An important element of the 1558 Register of hymns is the form prescribed by Augusta for Matins. This service was specifically intended as a space for realizing the Unity of Brethren's pericopal reforms. The singing of the invitatory using one of the traditional melodies at the service's opening is preserved in eighteen cases in total. A still more distinctive link to the secular Roman Rite is the preservation of two to three nocturns containing three lessons and the final singing of a hymn or song in place of a responsory. Meanwhile, the liturgy for services "during the day" is more closely tied to the Brethren's tradition: of the chants for the Ordinary of the Mass, only Czech tropes of the Kyrie and Sanctus are kept. The 1562 manuscript of Hymns is a summary of the bishop's entire hymnographic work in prison. The majority of the melodies used come from the cantional of Jan Roh and also from contemporary Utraquist repertoire that Augusta knew by heart thanks to his experience of liturgy and carolling as a student. It contains eleven notated chants corresponding to the tradition of Utraquist Latin antiphoners and graduales. Twelve texts are written with German melodies taken from the polyphonic repertoire and from the earliest Lutheran hymn prints. The use of polyphonic musical models, together with expressive poetic rendering of the psalms, brings a new stylistic layer to the repertoire of Czech spiritual song.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60403 - Performing arts studies (Musicology, Theater science, Dramaturgy)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Hudební věda
ISSN
0018-7003
e-ISSN
2694-6998
Volume of the periodical
62
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
15
Pages from-to
118-132
UT code for WoS article
001531174100001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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