Karel Janeček − a leading figure in Czech music theory and pedagogy: his theoretical writings from the 1930s and 1940s

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.31751/1155" target="_blank" >10.31751/1155</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Karel Janeček − a leading figure in Czech music theory and pedagogy: his theoretical writings from the 1930s and 1940s

Original language description

The study deals with two little-known areas of Janeček's theoretical activity. First of all, there are early studies from the 1930s, a period in which he was teaching at the Music School in Plzeň. At this time, Janeček began to focus on the issue of modern harmony, and most of these articles are preparatory work for his first monograph, Modern Harmony, completed in 1949. Janeček created an original systematics of harmonic material using as few as two and as many as twelve notes in an equal-tempered system. Its classification and determination of dissonant or consonant characteristics apply to both the chords of traditional Classical-Romantic music and to modern music of the twentieth century. At this time, he also devoted himself to the analysis of Bedřich Smetana's music. In these analyses we find the beginnings of his completely original concept of musical tectonics. Janeček thus created a new subdiscipline and analytical method (tectonic analysis).The second topic of the study is a critical analysis of Janeček's completely unknown textbook Kontrapunkt (Counterpoint), which was created in the 1940s and was intended mainly for conservatory students. Unfortunately, the text remained unfinished, but testifies to his original approach to teaching counterpoint. Janeček's main concern was to explain the essence of individual contrapuntal techniques, focusing on their practical application. Therefore, he limited the historical aspect and applied his specific analytical and compositional method to explain the basics of vocal counterpoint.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

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

2021

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie

ISSN

1862-6742

e-ISSN

1862-6742

Volume of the periodical

18

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

123-148

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