The musical culture of eighteenth century Bohemia, with special emphasis on the music inventories of Osek and the Knights of the Cross.
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Title
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The musical culture of eighteenth century Bohemia, with special emphasis on the music inventories of Osek and the Knights of the Cross.
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Identifier
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AAI9029973
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identifier
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9029973
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Creator
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Renton, Barbara Ann.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Barry S. Brook
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Date
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1990
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Music | Education, Music
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Abstract
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Bohemian musicians are acknowledged to have made significant contributions to the development of the Classical style, both as individuals and as a sizeable emigrant group whose members occupied positions in cities and courts throughout Europe. In the eighteenth century, to be a musician from Bohemia was to carry the highest credentials. This study proceeded from these theses: that Bohemian musicians learned their art and their craft within Bohemia, that they gained their knowledge from foreign models, but not without some local influence, and that economic, political, religious and social conditions combined to produce a great number of musically-trained people.;The study considers the political, economic, religious and social context in which music was performed and then examines the nature of musical training in eighteenth-century Bohemia as a function of culture through social institutions: the aristocratic courts, the schools and most particularly the church. A summary and evaluation of available primary sources in all these areas is given. Three music inventories from the Cistercian monastery of Osek in North Bohemia (1706; 1720, with later additions; 1753/43, a thematic catalog with additions to 1802) and an inventory from the Order of the Knights of the Cross (Kreuzherren) in Prague (1737/38, with later additions and a list of oratorios produced) are studied with reference to musical genres and composers represented therein. Comparisons are made with other contemporary Bohemian and Moravian inventories and collections (notably Liechtenstein-Kastelkorn) as well as with the music inventory of Count Rudolph Franz Erwin von Schonborn (1677-1754), with several Wallerstein sources, and with the 1721 inventory of the Esterhazy Hofmusikkapelle in Eisenstadt.;The study demonstrates that the music of Germany and Italy formed the basis of training and experience in Bohemia and that popular musical traditions formed part of the background. Particularly valuable are the appendices which list extant eighteenth-century Bohemian and Moravian inventories and collections (including instruments) and their present locations, the entire contents of the four inventories studied, the locations, the entire contents of the four inventories studied, the location of a selected group of composers' works in fourteen Bohemian and Moravian inventories dating from 1695 to 1772, and a Czech-German dictionary of geographical place names.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
