Syllabus
Topics:
- Czech Lands and Central Europe in current musicological discourse
- music at the University of Prague
- music in the service of Hussite ideas
- church councils as musical events and their echoes in Bohemia
- Latin schools and their function in contemporary musical life
- the Imperial court as a Central European musical centre
- Matthias Corvinus and music at his court
- the reception of European musical culture in Jagiellonian Bohemia
- the specifics of the musical culture of the Utraquist church
- Petrus Wilhelmi de Grudencz - the most popular composer in Bohemia in the 15th and 16th centuries
- musical sources of the 15th and early 16th centuries in relation to Bohemia
- musical genres cultivated in the Czech lands
Annotation
The research projects JRP HERA Sound Memories: The Musical Past in Late-Medieval and Early-Modern Europe (2016-2019) and EXPRO Old Myths, New Facts: Czech Lands in Center of 15th Century Musical Developments (2019-2023) have brought new insights into the musical culture of the Czech lands in the 15th and early 16th centuries that significantly change our current view of this era of our music history. The aim of this course is to convey the latest discourse to students and to place the period musical culture in a broader historical and social context.
The course is designed as a discussion of current publications on the topic, supplemented by examples of music sources and sound examples.