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Work and Performance:
A few Comments on the Czech Modern
Music
Lubomír Spurný
Masarykova univerza, Brno
Masaryk University, Brno
I.
To the destiny of today’s musicologists belongs a pleasant but trying obli-
gation of writing reviews on variety of texts of different levels and special-
izations which are connected to music. Also if musicology is to remain a
science about music, it must consider phenomena which has not yet been
given sufficient attention.
Recently, I got my hands on a habilitation thesis of one of my colleagues
from the University of Technology. Even though its name New methods of
encoding and reproduction of surround sound may sound intimidating, it
proven itself to be an interesting contribution to the discussion devoted to
capabilities of technical innovations. They ultimately also affect the music
and its reception. This statement is sort of a positional preamble, explaining
the reasons why I got into reading the aforementioned work.
Things such as musical events of national cultures or regions, eminent
composers, the genesis of the styles and the processes of creating individ-
ual creative poetics, the matters of individual musical genres traditionally
find themselves within the research interest of musicologists. The activity
of musical associations, companies and institutions also became the topic
of works focused on newer music. Not only the work of art itself but also the
form of its reception or the organization of musical life became a predica-
tive report about the nature of musical production. The historical knowl-
edge was, fairly recently, appended by an intensive study of specific aspects
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Work and Performance:
A few Comments on the Czech Modern
Music
Lubomír Spurný
Masarykova univerza, Brno
Masaryk University, Brno
I.
To the destiny of today’s musicologists belongs a pleasant but trying obli-
gation of writing reviews on variety of texts of different levels and special-
izations which are connected to music. Also if musicology is to remain a
science about music, it must consider phenomena which has not yet been
given sufficient attention.
Recently, I got my hands on a habilitation thesis of one of my colleagues
from the University of Technology. Even though its name New methods of
encoding and reproduction of surround sound may sound intimidating, it
proven itself to be an interesting contribution to the discussion devoted to
capabilities of technical innovations. They ultimately also affect the music
and its reception. This statement is sort of a positional preamble, explaining
the reasons why I got into reading the aforementioned work.
Things such as musical events of national cultures or regions, eminent
composers, the genesis of the styles and the processes of creating individ-
ual creative poetics, the matters of individual musical genres traditionally
find themselves within the research interest of musicologists. The activity
of musical associations, companies and institutions also became the topic
of works focused on newer music. Not only the work of art itself but also the
form of its reception or the organization of musical life became a predica-
tive report about the nature of musical production. The historical knowl-
edge was, fairly recently, appended by an intensive study of specific aspects
107
