Adam Michna, a Czech composer at the crossroad of styles

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Adam Michna, a Czech composer at the crossroad of styles

Original language description

Adam Michna (1600?-1676) is the most important Czech composer of the 17th century. He studied with Jesuits and spent his life as an organist in Jindřichův Hradec, a town in Southern Bohemia. He composed Czech spiritual songs to his own lyrics in a homophonic style, intended for the church choirs in the countryside. His Latin works for soloist and choir with an instrumental accompaniment appeared mostly in print. They prove that, in the 1620s, Michna had became acquainted with the stylistic traits of Italian musica moderna. His work is analyzed and presented from a stylistic viewpoint. Although Michna was a contemporary of Alberik Mazák, Antonio Bertali, Giacomo Carissimi, Giovanni Battista Alouisi, and many others, his music cannot be compared with the works of any of these masters. Therefore, it is impossible to state which composers were his models. His position as a creative musician at the crossroads of styles lies, on the one hand, in his homophonic, partly modal way of thinking, and in a very modest use of counterpoint. On the other hand, one finds in his works an agitated recitative of solo voices and a frequent use of rhetorical figures, as well as, for the times, unusual harmonies consistent with the music of the beginning of the 17th century.

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

2015

Confidentiality

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

Book/collection name

Italian Music in Central-Eastern Europe. Around Mikołaj Zieleński´s Offertoria and Communiones (1611)

ISBN

978-88-7552-057-1

Number of pages of the result

15

Pages from-to

397-411

Number of pages of the book

464

Publisher name

Edizioni Fondazione Levi

Place of publication

Venezia

UT code for WoS chapter

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