{"title":"Double bass in Czech music of the 21st century with a focus on solo and chamber music literature in a historical and international context","authors":"Tomáš Karpíšek","doi":"10.24132/zcu.musica.2021.01.89-95","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24132/zcu.musica.2021.01.89-95","url":null,"abstract":"My dissertation project Double bass in Czech music of the 21st century with a focus on solo and chamber music literature in a historical and international context aims to convey a report about the state of the Czech contemporary music for double bass in the new millennium. The output value should be a summarization and cataloguing of new compositions, a comparison of the same and a description of them in both an international and historical context. An- other important aspect of this thesis is the case analysis of some pieces and a description of compositional techniques used. This work is meant to be mainly for musical high school (conservatories in the Czech Republic) and musical universities students and pedagogues, as well as double bass interpreters and others interested in this topic, who want to broaden their horizons and discover the state of the contemporary Czech literature for double bass and learn new and often superior compositions. First and foremost, an encyclopaedic style summariza- tion of contemporary double bass pieces should provide a useful tool for all readers interested in discovering new pieces for the deepest string instrument. Another important point of the thesis is a description and explanation of the most common interpretation techniques and a guide to their realisation in praxis.","PeriodicalId":151978,"journal":{"name":"Musica paedagogia pilsnensis","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115784734","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Russian methodologies of vocal training applied in a Czech children’s choir","authors":"Elvira Gadžijeva","doi":"10.24132/zcu.musica.2021.01.53-61","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24132/zcu.musica.2021.01.53-61","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a dissertation thesis project that focuses on Russian methodologies of vocal training and their application in a children’s choir, which requires a careful choice of methodologies and methodological approach to organization of choir lessons. The paper begins with a brief description of the history and foundation of the Russian choral school and tradition of choral singing education, followed by a brief overview of the most popular vocal methodologists whose work has been dedicated to vocal training. The final part introduces two modern vocal training methodologies of leading musical trainers. The practical part of the future dissertation will deal with the selection of optimal exercises and their systematic development to help children improve their singing skills and musicality, as well as contribute to the cultivation of good singing habits. The aim is to enable school teachers or kindergarten teachers who are not professional musicians to use successfully the assembled methodology.","PeriodicalId":151978,"journal":{"name":"Musica paedagogia pilsnensis","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121186025","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Clarinettist Milan Kostohryz: His contribution to the field of reconstruction of historical instruments and his innovative promotion of new instruments","authors":"Radek Žitný","doi":"10.24132/zcu.musica.2021.01.62-72","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24132/zcu.musica.2021.01.62-72","url":null,"abstract":"My dissertation at the Department of Music Education and Culture at the University of West Bohemia is entitled “Milan Kostohryz. His contribution to music interpretation and pedagogy.” The dissertation focuses on an extraordinary musician, Milan Kostohryz (1911–1998), who had a significant impact on both the Czech and worldwide music community. He was highly professional, passionate, and meticulous, which was reflected in the wide scope of his activities. He was a reliable and sought-after player (in opera orchestras, chamber ensembles and as a soloist); a respected and successful teacher (almost all his students were successful in the field); an exceptional methodologist (he wrote a number of methodical articles and papers, which are relevant to this day); a researcher in the field of music history (he investigated the development of wind instruments in Czechia and revised dozens of old compositions). Many contemporary composers wrote works specifically for him, which he then premiered. Thanks to his extensive correspondence with dozens of music personalities all over the world, he contributed to several specialized international publications and was regularly invited to music conferences abroad (e.g. USA, Germany). His niche specialisation included official reviews of the quality of instruments (clarinets and saxophones) and mouthpieces available on the market at that time. He took part in the reconstruction of “Mozart’s basset clarinet” based on period sketches and built a working quarter-tone clarinet. His extensive interest in his field sets him apart from his contemporar - ies, many of whom were “just players”, rather than researchers. This dissertation is concerned mainly with his above-mentioned research. The principal resource for the research is an extensive written estate, with which I have been entrusted. It is currently deposited in the Czech museum of music in Prague (CMM). There are very few printed resources, as M. Kostohryz was not permitted to make substantial publications due to political reasons (see Bibliography).","PeriodicalId":151978,"journal":{"name":"Musica paedagogia pilsnensis","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130194964","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Embracing indian and western classical music in the 21st century: Param Vir and Shankar Tucker","authors":"Anna Amy Philips","doi":"10.24132/zcu.musica.2021.01.73-80","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24132/zcu.musica.2021.01.73-80","url":null,"abstract":"The first (published) mention of Indian classical music in Western discourse takes us to William Jones’ On the Musical Modes of the Hindus (1784), which ignited a scholarly interest for the Orient in the Western world. Since then, over the years, several researchers in music have been swept along and consumed by the currents of lost, found, translated, (mis-)inter - preted, transliterated and transformed literature on Indian classical music 2. This work delves neither into the labyrinth of the allusive character of Raga, nor the theory, transliteration, and treatises on Indian classical music. Instead, with supporting literature from many diligent scholars, it utilises all the extremely elaborate theories and explanations from the past to initiate a different sort of analysis in this field, one that explores musical material directly in compositions which incorporate both Indian and Western music, using socio-cultural, media studies theories and music analysis theories. The primary intent of this work is to comprehend the creation of a cultural third space brought about by the hybridisation of contemporary Western music and Indian classical music, taking two composers as case studies for this purpose: Param Vir and Shankar Tucker. The parameters of this study centre, in Vir’s case, on Indian classical- and 20 th century Western classical music theories; and, in Tucker’s case, the appropriation of Indian music, using contemporary media studies and popular music the- ories of a globalised world. Such an analysis is customised and therefore is to be considered as an observation of the current scenario within these two systems of music, within these parameters.","PeriodicalId":151978,"journal":{"name":"Musica paedagogia pilsnensis","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133450638","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Blues lyrics in teaching music and Czech at the grammar school","authors":"Aleš Sladký","doi":"10.24132/zcu.musica.2021.01.96-103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24132/zcu.musica.2021.01.96-103","url":null,"abstract":"My study is entitled: “Blues lyrics in teaching music and Czech at the grammar school” and now I will outline its fundamental contents, the basic conclusions of my study and the meth- ods used to help me reach these conclusions. The study is conceived as a comparison of five American and five Czech blues compositions, which are considered the most popular and basic works of the genre. I did this by analyzing several available charts focused on foreign blues songs and then compiled my list of the five “most popular” American blues songs based on the number of occurrences and locations of the songs in specific charts. For Czech songs, this procedure was more difficult, because I could not find any survey, discussion or ranking that focused specifically on blues songs. So, I proceeded here more or less intuitively and I put together a list of five songs according to my own knowledge of songs, according to the popularity of songs on the youtube music portal and the popularity of the artists who presented the songs. I analyzed the compositions mainly from the textual point of view; however, I did not forget the musical aspect. I was mainly looking for basic identical and different elements in the text area. I found several identical elements, not only in terms of themes, but also in the construction of texts and poetic turns. However, I also found certain textual differences in the Czech and foreign compositions. I will discuss these identical and different elements in more detail in the following text.","PeriodicalId":151978,"journal":{"name":"Musica paedagogia pilsnensis","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133496387","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Doctorandi musicae ex Pilsna et Confluentibus – About this volume","authors":"Lina Oravec, Romana Feiferlíková, Veronika Keller","doi":"10.24132/zcu.musica.2021.01.10-12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24132/zcu.musica.2021.01.10-12","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":151978,"journal":{"name":"Musica paedagogia pilsnensis","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130970227","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A new magazine to note","authors":"J. Vičar","doi":"10.24132/zcu.musica.2021.01.05-09","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24132/zcu.musica.2021.01.05-09","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":151978,"journal":{"name":"Musica paedagogia pilsnensis","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115103404","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transatlantic connections: US-American music students at German conservatories, 1843–1918","authors":"Veronika Keller","doi":"10.24132/zcu.musica.2021.01.81-88","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24132/zcu.musica.2021.01.81-88","url":null,"abstract":"This article provides a brief summary of the method and major findings of my dissertation about the US-American student migration to the German states between 1843 and 1918. The dissertation is entitled “Here I am in my Mecca”. Die US-amerikanische Musikschülermigration nach Deutschland, 1843–1918 and will be published in German in 2022 at Olms Verlag. As most of the studies about participants in the transatlantic music transfer still concen- trate on individuals or, in recent years, networks around certain teachers and music ensembles, the first goal of the dissertation was to show the overall dimensions of the migration. Therefore, student lists were put together, based on handwritten and printed student rosters and other sources by the reasearched music institutes. Through this process it was possible to find the names of over 3,500 US-American students, both male and female, who studied at German music institutes until 1918. In a second step, these findings were put into the context of the political, social and, of course, musical histories of both the United States and the German lands, the history of the individual institutes and general questions of gender and music education, and gender and music professions. This was done by focusing more on the macro level than on individual biographies, with the objective of highlighting groups often marginalized in research, such as women or music teachers, who accounted for a large proportion of music students. The consistent question in this macro-study was why US-American students came in such large numbers to study music in Germany, a time-intensive and, even more important, quite expensive undertaking. In the course of the dissertation, multiple reasons could be identified: on a personal level, many students either had ancestors in Germany or followed their German-educated teachers; on a societal level there was the requirement of music study in Europe, and especially Germany as the home of so many well-known composers and musicians, to experience the unique “musical atmosphere”, something repeated quite often in both individual accounts and the press. Up until the turn of the century this was a basic requirement for taking up a career both on stage as well as in music institutes in the United States. And on the musical level there was the hope of studying under famous teachers (though this ultimately did not come true for many students), to garner initial experiences on stage in student orchestras or vocal ensembles and finally maybe even debut on the German stage.","PeriodicalId":151978,"journal":{"name":"Musica paedagogia pilsnensis","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124627311","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How to deal with classical music? Music teachers’ thoughts of Western art music as a subject in music education","authors":"Erik Alexander Recklies","doi":"10.24132/zcu.musica.2021.01.13-22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24132/zcu.musica.2021.01.13-22","url":null,"abstract":"Classical music has traditionally played a crucial role in German music education. Nowadays its importance in contexts of music education has become controversial since the world of music as well as educational concepts have become more diverse. So far there has been little empirical research about either music teachers’ perspectives on classical music or on its role in music education. This paper offers an insight into my doctoral research project focusing on the following questions: How do music teachers regard classical music as a subject for music education and how do they deal with it in schools? After presenting the research process (eight interviews with music teachers in general schooling in Germany, analyzed using the Grounded Theory methodology), provisional results are provided. The interviewees name a wide variety of music educational goals and advantages of integrating classical music into their music lessons; at the same time, however, they all report how unfamiliar many pupils are with this type of music. The teachers develop different strategies for dealing with the pupils’ unfamiliarity with classical music. The unfamiliarity of classical music appears to be the tentative core category in the process of coding and data interpretation. According to these findings, the debate on classical music as a subject in music education could be part of current interor transcultural music pedagogical discussions and (music) pedagogical discourses concerning unfamiliarity.","PeriodicalId":151978,"journal":{"name":"Musica paedagogia pilsnensis","volume":"279 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125733869","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Teachers’ beliefs at German music schools a “messy construct” in a grounded theory study","authors":"Y. Park","doi":"10.24132/zcu.musica.2021.01.44-52","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24132/zcu.musica.2021.01.44-52","url":null,"abstract":"Teachers at music schools in Germany are confronted with very complex demands in their profession, ranging from artistic experience in various genres to pedagogical skills in the context of both broad-based and top-level promotion, as well as different age groups. It is not uncommon for certain tensions to arise when teachers try to meet all these requirements at the same time. Under such conditions, how do they define quality of instrumental and vocal tuition? As this is a matter of a still relatively young field of empirical research in Germany, such a basic and relevant research question has not yet been addressed. It is explored in my doctoral research project 2, which is an empirical study based on interviews with teachers at music schools in Germany3. The concept of teachers’ beliefs forms the theoretical framework and the data collected is analysed using Grounded Theory methodology. On the way towards developing a theory, it becomes apparent that educational quality from the teachers’ point of view is much more difficult to identify than expected. Therefore, it seems necessary to broaden the research question. This paper illustrates the processuality of my research with a focus on the methodological approach.","PeriodicalId":151978,"journal":{"name":"Musica paedagogia pilsnensis","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131577137","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}