The winter harvest of publications from the Institute of Musicology continues with a monograph on the oldest comprehensive collection of strophic sacred songs (cantiones) from pre-Hussite Bohemia, known as the Vyšší Brod Cantionale / Hohenfurter Liederhandschrift (manuscript no. 42 from the monastery library in Vyšší Brod) from 1410. This book is the result of the […]
Karolinum Press has just released a monograph by David Eben, written in collaboration with Štefánia Demská and Jan Bilwachs: Filling in the Gap: The Post Pentecost Series of Gospel Antiphons From a liturgical point of view, the period of the church year between Pentecost and the beginning of Advent is quite unusual. It seems that […]
The University of Rochester Press / Boydell & Brewer has just published a collective monograph entitled Music in Fifteenth-Century Bohemia: Between Reform and Identity Building, edited by Hana Vlhová-Wörner and Jan Ciglbauer, as vol. 206 in its Eastman Studies in Music series. The book is one of the outputs of the project “Old Myths, New […]
Until 15 November, 2024, Charles University has trial access to RIPM Jazz Periodicals. This full-text database features a unique collection of rare and historically significant jazz periodicals, providing an invaluable window into the development and evolution of jazz as an art form and the historical, cultural, and sociological facets of American and twentieth-century life. Access […]
From 6 to 9 July 2024, the annual Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference (MedRen) took place in Granada, Spain. The organisers decided to honour the memory of our dear colleague Lenka Hlávková and supported a proposal for three sessions devoted to topics close to her research. The initiative for the realization of these sections came […]
Among those who were literally torn from our midst on that pre-Christmas Thursday was the director of the Institute of Musicology, Lenka Hlávková, an academic with an international reputation, but also a loving wife and mother of two children. She studied musicology at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University under the supervision of doc. PhDr. […]
Institute of Musicology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University cordially invites to a lecture from the cycle New Approaches in Music and Sound Studies. Prof. Sarah Collins (University of Western Australia) “Performing Automation: Agency, Animacy, and Mimesis in Opera” 8th January, 2024, 5:30–7 PM [Cancelled for reasons of remembrance] Faculty of Arts, main building (nám. J. Palacha […]
Department of Musicology invites applications for a position in Historical musicology – music after 1800 at the rank of Assistant professor Expected starting date: January 1, 2024 or later by agreement Application deadline: October 10, 2023 For more information see.
Members of the Old Myth, New Facts project cordially invite to the online lecture „Different Faces of Johannes Hollandrinus“ of the cycle Early Music in Central Europe: Local Elements –Transregional Connections –International Research (EMCE). Prof. Elżbieta Witkowska-Zaremba from the Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences will present on Johannes Hollandrinus, a remarkable personality of […]
Student workshop at the Czech Academy of Sciences, 22–24 September 2022 All European societies had to respond to the major political upheavals, wars and crises of the 20th century, with some parallels and differences coming to light. In changing political systems – during the Nazi terror as well as under state socialism – musicians, composers and audiences either sought to […]
