Liturgical Music of the Bohemian Reformation

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/history-of-music-in-the-czech-lands/liturgical-music-of-the-bohemian-reformation/0C8B89846BEBE02D60B84829EFEEB8E8" target="_blank" >https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/history-of-music-in-the-czech-lands/liturgical-music-of-the-bohemian-reformation/0C8B89846BEBE02D60B84829EFEEB8E8</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781009168663" target="_blank" >10.1017/9781009168663</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Liturgical Music of the Bohemian Reformation

Original language description

The Czech Reformation was unique in some of its manifestations. It preceded the main Reformation wave of the early 1500s by a century. One of its distinctive features was the creation of its own repertory, with the most striking part being vernacular (Czech) songs and paraphrased chant in the vernacular. Throughout the sixteenth century, the song repertory was enriched by adopting elements from the Lutheran German song traditions (in mutual exchange) and from the radical Reformation, such as the Geneva Psalter. The first printed Bohemian cantional was published as early as 1501, and certain printed cantionals, especially those produced by the Unity of Brethren, stand out as pinnacles of the cantional production in terms of both scope and typographic sophistication, even in an international context. The polyphonic repertoire, persisting well into the sixteenth century, retained some aspects of late medieval style. The conservatism of the bourgeois milieu, from which the singing activity of the lay literary fraternities emerged, was evident in both the acquisition of expensive manuscript Graduals and the character of the newer polyphonic music from the second half of the sixteenth century tailored for this milieu.Despite the defeat of the Bohemian Revolt in 1620, leading to the prohibition of non-Catholic worship in Bohemia and Moravia, the practice of singing in Czech during liturgy continued to be tolerated within Catholic worship. Several songs have endured as a consistent part of the church repertory up to the present day.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60403 - Performing arts studies (Musicology, Theater science, Dramaturgy)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

A History of Music in the Czech Lands

ISBN

978-1-00-916865-6

Number of pages of the result

15

Pages from-to

39-53

Number of pages of the book

532

Publisher name

Cambridge University Press

Place of publication

Cambridge

UT code for WoS chapter

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