PT Journal
AU Hons, M
TI Leaders of Czech modern music theory and his critical activities
SO Aura musica
PY 2012
BP 20
EP 31
VL 2
IS 2
DE musical critics; musical journalism; analysis; history of Czech music
AB Basics of Czech modern music theory were pitched in the twenties and thirties of the 20th century by Otakar Sin and Alois Haba. These developments culminated in the synthetic work on the younger generation Karel Janecek. Alois Haba (1893-1973) developed in the twenties and thirties wide compositional, pedagogical, theoretical and critical activity. Against domestic traditionalist oriented musical criticis he had strenuously defend his own compositional style. Otakar Sin (1881-1934) was devoted to music criticis only sporadically. Fully focused on harmony as his main area of theoretical interest, and therefore in its scientific reference only find this type of writings. Karel Janecek (1903-1974) began publishing the first theoretical study already in the twenties. Besides a lot of purely theoretical studies there are the most important part about works of Bedrich Smetana.
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