Janáček as theorist

✍ Scribed by Beckerman, Michael Brim

• Publisher: Pendragon Press
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 162
• Series: Studies in Czech music 3
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In addition to his activities as a composer, Leos Janácek was a prolific literary personality whose works include not only letters, feuilletons, criticisms, autobiography, ethnographic and pedagogical studies but also numerous articles dealing with music theory. They are unique documents, stimulating, diverse, exciting, and sometimes bewildering, they reflect Janácek's intense involvement with contemporary trends in philosophy, ethnography, physiology, and music theory, and his struggles in these worlds; yet they can hardly be found on a single bookshelf outside the Czech Republic (From the Introduction).

✦ Table of Contents

Frontmatter
Preface (page vii)
Introduction (page xi)
1. Janáček's Musical Studies (page 1)
2. Janáček and the Herbartians (page 15)
3. Janáček's Activity as a Theorist Part 1 (18877-1897) (page 25)
4. Janáček's Activity as a Theorist Part 2 (1898-1920) (page 43)
5. The Chordal Connection and Chordal Thickening (page 59)
6. Sčasování and the Relationship Between Rhythm and Harmony (page 81)
7. Janáček's Theories Evaluated (page 97)
Bibliography (page 119)
Appendix 1: Glossary of Janáček's Terms (page 133)
Index (page 137)

✦ Subjects

Music; Music theory;Janáček, Leoš, -- 1854-1928 -- Contributions in music theory;Janáček, Leoš, -- 1854-1928 -- Written works