The “Czechness” of the Musical Culture of Czechoslovakia

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Natalia Gavrilova

Abstract

Although from time to time influences from other countries had suppressed the distinctive national attributes of the Czech people and Czech culture, they had also awakened the Czechs’ national consciousness and strengthened the Czechs in their resolve to preserve their national values. The historical fate of the Czech people has been reflected in the specificity of their culture, which molded together its own diversified sources and a multifaceted interaction with the cultures of other nations. The aspirations toward common European ideas, the artistic tendencies and the social-typological forms of contemporary language of the national style appear particularly in the national interpretation and often enter the context of the national style not from without, as alien characteristic features, but appear from within, on the basis of the development of specifically national resources, primarily folklore-related ones.

Keywords: Czech music, European influence on Czech music, national Czech style

 

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Gavrilova, N. (2013). The “Czechness” of the Musical Culture of Czechoslovakia. Music Scholarship / Problemy Muzykal’noj Nauki, (1), 160–161. Retrieved from https://musicscholar.ru/index.php/PMN/article/view/218
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International Division
Author Biography

Natalia Gavrilova, Moscow State P. I. Tchaikovsky Conservatory

Doctor of Arts,
Professor