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Musical Interpretation: Specifics of Working
with Textual Statements and Other Aspects

Viktor Velek
Univerza v Ostravi
University of Ostrava

In searching for content for this study, I decided to use my experience
gained during my publishing activities. In a way, it will be a kind of “med-
ley” – inherently disparate in many ways, but at the same time always relat-
ed to the issue of interpretation. A selection consisting of three topics: his-
torical recording, reviews and mediaeval music.

Historical recordings
My initial reflection comes from my master’s thesis from 2005, i.e. the top-
ic Slavic Reciprocity in the Musical Culture of Czechs and Lusatian Serbs
1
1848–1948. As part of my interdisciplinary research, I explored historical
recordings, particularly those made in Lusatia in 1907 by the Berlin Phono-
grammarchiv. As a “recording greenhorn” I was intrigued by the fact that
2
two different recordings of the same song were always made in the field
1 Viktor Velek, “Slovanská vzájemnost v hudební kultuře Čechů a Lužických Srbů
1848–1948 [Slavic Reciprocity in the Musical Culture of Czechs and Lusatian Serbs
1848–1948]” (Thesis, Masaryk University in Brno, 2005).
2 Viktor Velek, “Historické nahrávky lužickosrbské řeči a hudby z let 1907–1938 [His-
torical Recordings of Lusatian-Serbian Speech and Music from 1907–1938],” Lěto-
pis – časopis za rěč, stawizny a kulturu Łužiskich Serbow / Zeitschrift für sorbische
Geschichte und Kultur 55, no. 2 (2008): 17–41; Viktor Velek, “Niedersorbische (Nie-
derwendische) historische Aufnahmen / Lower Sorbian Historical Awards,” in
Schlagwort Wendisch. Historische Tondokumente sorbischer/wendischer Kultur, ed.
Sebastian Elikowski-Winkler (Cottbus: Schule für Niedersorbische Sprache und
Kultur, 2016), 17–49.

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