ca1420-1620
Music in the Czech lands III


—Music in the Czech lands ca1400-1620
— (including foreign musicians active here)
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—+1415 priest and preacher John Huss (Jan Hus) burned at the stake in Constance
— during the council (1414-1418)
— Hussite movement in Czech lands – recession of the latin chant, secular song and polyphonic
compositions
— use of vernacular, preference of songs for the community
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—Codex Speciálník, manuscript ca1500,
—See ECM: Codex Specialnik (Hilliard Ensemble)
—Contains various repertory
plainchant, earlier
compositions in black
mensural notation, up to date
compositions for 3-4 voices
mostly in white mens. not.
(among them works by
important europ. authors)
—Example: 3voice motet Náš
milý svatý Václave (Saint
Wenceslas…) in white mens.
notation
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—Franko-Flemish polyphony in the Czech lands
—Names as Josquin, de la Rue, Isaac and others
—See polyphonic manuscripts from Brno from ca1500:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gCZrPuag74
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—Emperor Maxmilian II in Brno 1567
—His master of music chapell Jacobus Vaet died here
see the lament for his deceased master Clemens non Papa http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDIhRmwuYw4
—Missa for 40 voices from Alessandro Striggio presented as a gift from Medici family here in
Brnohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDUDWvB31lU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OppWKYl_Ak
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Brno in 1593
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—Emperor Rudolf II in Prague (ca1583-1612)
—Emperor´s music ensemble
—Philipp de Monte (musicae praefectus)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzmUty-MtVQ
—Charles Luython (emperor´s organist)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzu8h_NRb2k
others: Jacobus Regnart, de Sayve family, Franz Sale
—Prague organist and composer Jacobus Gallus
Handl (ca1550-1591), former
chapelmaster of the bishop of
Olomouc, moved to Prague 1585
to publish his large work
listen to his christmass
motet Mirabile mysterium
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pB0uI2h0FGs&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1xht7I2hSA&feature=related
—See Itinerary of
Fynes Moryson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fynes_Moryson
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