On the Programmatic Character of Janáček’s Suite Compositions from the 1870s
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
On the Programmatic Character of Janáček’s Suite Compositions from the 1870s
Original language description
This study focuses on the programmatic aspects and reception of Leoš Janáček’s Suite (1877) and Idyll (1878), two suites for string orchestra which represent the peaks of the early period of his compositional work. Since the beginning of the twentieth century, they have been almost invariably regarded as pieces of absolute music. The objective of this study is to demonstrate that Suite and Idyll were regarded in programmatic terms by some of the contemporary critics attending their earliest performances, especially by Berthold Žalud (1856–1886), an important musical critic, Janáček’s friend and devoted admirer. Both compositions were generally interpreted as works in which the musical image of the Romantic landscape intermingles with that of Janáček’s inner self. The expressions and imagination of those programmatic interpretations draw on the period Czech pseudo-Romanticist fiction literature and corresponded with contemporary manners of Czech music criticism: the interpretation of new pieces of absolute music in programmatic terms. It is likely that the initial ideas underpinning the programmatic interpretations of the Suite and Idyll originated directly with Janáček.
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
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OECD FORD branch
60403 - Performing arts studies (Musicology, Theater science, Dramaturgy)
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N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju
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Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
Nineteenth-Century Programme Music: Creation, Negotiations, Reception
ISBN
9782503583464
Number of pages of the result
20
Pages from-to
359-378
Number of pages of the book
489
Publisher name
Brepols
Place of publication
Turnhout
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