Musicus et poeta trilinguis. New Findings about the Life and Work of Jiří Cropatius Teplický Marta Vaculínová, Petr Daněk This joint article by a classical philologist and a musicologist deals with Jiří Cropatius (a figure documented between 1569 and 1580). Until now, he has been known as a composer who achieved what no other Czech had ever done: getting his music printed by Angelo Gardano in Venice. Current…
Jakub Srkal’s 1579 Litoměřice Cantional Dagmar Štefancová On the basis of a little-known manuscript cantional from Litoměřice (1579) and of the analysis of its repertoire, this article presents new discoveries on the topic of the Bohemian song postils of the sixteenth century and on the question of the distribution and thesauration of songs during the…
The Image of Růžena Maturová in the Iconography Collection of the Bedřich Smetana Museum Jana Plecitá The article summarises the results attained so far through research and expert processing of the photographs held in the iconography collections of the Bedřich Smetana Museum. It provides information about Růžena Maturová (1869–1938) including previously unpublished details about the period of her…
The Film Music of Luboš Fišer Věra Šustíková Luboš Fišer (1935–1999) was a prominent and original composer of the twentieth century. All his life, he worked as a freelance composer of classical music and film music. He combined these two fields, and in both he won a number of Czech and international awards. The article surveys Fišer’s film…
The Methodological Centre for the Documentation, Conservation, and Restoration of Musical Instruments Tereza Žůrková
Import / Export / Rock’n’Roll – The Movement of Popular Music (Among Other Things) Across the Iron Curtain Petr Ferenc
Ema Součková: Výzdoba hudebních rukopisů Jana Táborského z Klokotské Hory (The Ornamentation of Musical Manuscripts by Jan Táborský of Klokotská Hora) Pavel Brodský
