The Department of Musicology is an institute of Palacký University

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, which conducts research and provides education in the fields of

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and

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. While the Faculty of Philosophy dates back to 1576 and has provided education for a number of art theorists, the separate Department of Musicology was established in 1946. It is sited in the building of University Art Centre (former Jesuit College), together with other two art departments of Faculty of Philosophy and two art departments of Faculty of Education.

History

Established in 1573, the Palacký University of Olomouc has a long history of musical scholarship. Olomouc prominently excels in the sphere of

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( J. H. Gallus, W. A. Mozart, A. Dvořák, G. Mahler, J. Kubelík, E. Destinová, who all spent some part of their lives in Olomouc). Among the Olomouc University graduates are both art theorists (

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, Raphael Georg Kiesewetter,

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, etc.) as well as composers ( Pavel Vranický, Pavel Křížkovský, Eduard Schön,

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, etc.). The modern tradition of musicological research and education goes back to 1946 when the ''Institute of Music Education and Science'' was established at the

by Robert Smetana (1904–1988). The 1960s and 1970s saw a strong growth of the department (since 1972 led by Vladimír Hudec; however, the institute was transformed into the ''Department of Music Education'' and transferred to the Faculty of Education in 1980 by the decision of the Ministry of Education. Soon after the fall of the communist régime in 1989, the

returned to the ground of Philosophical Faculty, this time as part of the ''Department of Combined Art Studies''. Independent Department of Musicology was renewed in 1992 and through the enthusiasm of excellent professionals grew into a modern academic institution. Since 2002 it is sited in the ''University Art Centre'', former Jesuit College building, together with another two art departments of the Faculty of Philosophy and two art departments of the Faculty of Education.

Current Research Objectives & Other Activities

Research has a fundamental role for the Department. The Department hosts the annual ''International Musicological Conference'' (usually late November) and regular public workshops and seminars which are enriched by occasional activities such as conference on ''Zdeněk Fibich - the 19th Century Middle European Composer'' held in spring 2010. The Department's activities embrace a wide variety of modes of research (Regional and

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, Critical Edition of Musical Sources,

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, and so on). Department's research is supported by a major funds from the

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(principal among these are the ''Correspondence of Vítězslav Novák between 1890-1905'', ''Correspondence of Vítězslav Novák between 1906-1949'', ''Zdeněk Fibich’s 19th century Operas'', ''Moravia and the World'' ...). Department participated on ''Music Media Training Programme For the Czech Republic (1995 - 1998)'' and ''Musical Life in Europe (1997 - 2001)''. Since 1997 the Department is linked to

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through the ''Art and Music in the Czech Republic Programme''. The Department also benefits from a number of collaborative research and educational partnerships, including those with * Royal Holloway College of University of London in Egham *

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During last decades the Department provided a forum for a number of academics and visiting lecturers (i.e. Charles Ansbacher, Michael Beckerman, Greg Hurworth, Thomas Christensen, Jobst Fricke, Kenton Frohrip,

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, Graham Melville-Mason, Scott L. Miller, Christopher Shultis and others). As part of the University's

, the Department of Musicology offers

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and

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degrees in the fields of

Musicology Musicology (from Greek μουσική ''mousikē'' 'music' and -λογια ''-logia'', 'domain of study') is the scholarly analysis and research-based study of music. Musicology departments traditionally belong to the humanities, although some mu ...

and

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. The Department holds regular concerts and musical festival as well (i.e. festival of contemporary music MusicOlomouc).

Staff

Former Staff and Graduates

During its history department possessed a rather unusual roster of musicologists whose interest covered a great variety of scientific issues (namely Robert Smetana, Vladimír Hudec, Vladimír Gregor, František Kratochvíl, Libor Melkus, Gustav Pivoňka, Josef Schreiber (musicologist), Luděk Zenkl, Pavel Čotek, Ivan Poledňák,

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, Miroslav K. Černý, Jiří Fukač, Jaroslav Jiránek, Václav Kučera, Stanislav Tesař, Vladimír Tichý, Jiří Sehnal, Miloš Štědroň, Vlastislav Matoušek). Many graduates have become leading scholars and prominent musicians ( Leo Jehne, Michal Chrobák,

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, Pavel Klapil, Jiří Pavlica, Stanislav Pecháček).

Contemporary Staff (2014)

* Doc. PhDr. Lenka Křupková, Ph.D. (Head of Department, Guarantor of Musicology) * Mgr. et Mgr. Martina Stratilková, Ph.D. (Substitute Head of Department, Assistant Professor) * Mgr. Petr Lyko, Ph.D. (Scientific Secretary, Assistant Professor) * Mgr. Jan Blüml, Ph.D. (Secretary, Assistant Professor) * Prof. PhDr. Jan Vičar, CSc. (Professor) * Prof. PhDr. Alena Burešová, CSc. (Professor Emeritus) * Prof. PhDr. Jiří Sehnal, CSc. (Professor Emeritus) * Doc. PhDr. Jiří Kopecký, Ph.D. (Associate Professor) * Doc. PhDr. Eva Vičarová, Ph.D. (Associate Professor, Guarantor of Art Studies) * MgA. Marek Keprt, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor) * PhDr. Ingrid Silná, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor) * Mgr. Jana Spáčilová, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor) * Mgr. Alice Ondrejková, Ph.D. (Researcher)

Location and Facilities

Since 2002 the Department of Musicology PhF PU Ol is located in renovated former Jesuits’ Convict, which houses Computer Lab, two large and one small Lecture Halls, three Noise-proof Studios, Chapel, Library and Archive and number of offices, designed to accommodate all its needs in the matter of educational and research activities

Publication Selection

Monographic Studies

*Bek, Mikuláš: Vybrané problémy hudební sociologie. 1. vyd. Olomouc. Vydavatelství Univerzity Palackého 1993. 96 s. *Burešová, Alena: Pavel Bořkovec. Olomouc. Votobia 1995, 224 s. *Burešová, Alena: Cantus Iuventutis. 1. vyd. Olomouc. Vydavatelství Univerzity Palackého 2002. 140 s. *Černý, Miroslav K.: Hudba antických kultur. 1. vyd. Olomouc. Vydavatelství Univerzity Palackého 1995. 181 s. *Černý, Miroslav K.: Kapitoly z metodologie hudební vědy. 1. vyd. Olomouc. Vydavatelství Univerzity Palackého 1998. 103 s. *Černý, Miroslav K.: Nástin vývoje symfonie. 1. vyd. Olomouc. Vydavatelství Univerzity Palackého 2002. * 2001. 234 s. *Havelka, František: Muzikolog a počítač (Úvod do studia počítačové editace hudby). Olomouc. Vydavatelství Univerzity Palackého 1998. 120 s. *Hudec, Vladimír: Zdeněk Fibich. Tematický katalog. Editio Bärenreiter, Praha, 2001, 850 s., *Jiránek, Jaroslav: Hudební sémantika a sémiotika. 1. vyd. Olomouc. Vydavatelství Univerzity Palackého 1996. 139 s. *Jiránek, Jaroslav: Zdeněk Fibich. Druhé, přepracované vyd. Praha. AMU 2000. 307 s. *Jurková, Zuzana: Kapitoly o mimoevropské hudbě. 1. vyd. Olomouc. Vydavatelství Univerzity Palackého 1996, 73 s. . Druhé, doplněné opravené vydání Olomouc, Vydavatelství Univerzity Palackého, 2001. 107 s. . *Křupková, Lenka: Studie ze života a díla Vítězslava Nováka. 1. vyd. Olomouc. Vydavatelství Univerzity Palackého 2006, 224 s. . *Navrátil, Miloslav Dějiny hudby. Přehled evropských dějin hudby (rozšířené vydání). Olomouc. Votobia 2003. 367 s. *Poledňák, Ivan; Fukač, Jiří: Úvod do studia hudební vědy. Olomouc. Vydavatelství Univerzity Palackého 1995. 146 s. . Druhé, doplněné opravené vydání Olomouc, Vydavatelství Univerzity Palackého, 2001. 260 s. . *Poledňák, Ivan: Úvod do problematiky hudby jazzového okruhu. Olomouc. Vydavatelství Univerzity Palackého 2000. 231 s. *Poledňák, Ivan: Vášeň rozumu. Skladatel Jan Klusák - člověk, osobnost, tvůrce. Olomouc. Vydavatelství Univerzity Palackého 2004. 414 s. *Poledňák, Ivan et ali: Proměny hudby v měnícím se světě. Olomouc. Vydavatelství Univerzity Palackého 2007. 352 s. *Sehnal, Jiří: Pavel Josef Vejvanovký a biskupská kapela v Kroměříži. Kroměříž, Muzeum Kroměřížska 1993. 112 s. . *Sehnal, Jiří: Musik des 17. Jahrhunderts und Pavel Vejvanovský. Red. J. Sehnal. Brno 1994. . *Sehnal, Jiří: Caroli de Liechtenstein - Castelcorno episcopi Olomucensis operum artis musicae collectio Cremsirii reservata. Composuerunt Sehnal J. et Pešková J. Pragae 1998. 979 s. Artis musicae antiquioris catalogorum series Vol. V/1 - 2. , . *Sehnal, Jiří: Barokní varhanářství na Moravě. Díl 1. Varhanáři. Brno 2003. 171 s. *Sehnal, Jiří: Barokní varhanářství na Moravě. Díl II. Varhany. Brno 2004, 293 s., *Sehnal, Jiří; Vysloužil, Jiří: Dějiny hudby na Moravě. Vlastivěda moravská - nová řada, sv. 12. Brno 2001. 311 s. *Vičarová, Eva: Rakouská vojenská hudba v 19. století Olomouc. Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci, Olomouc 2002. 178 s. *Vičar, Jan: Hudební kritika a popularizace hudby. 1. vyd. Praha, Filozofická fakulta Univerzity Karlovy - Koniasch Latin Press 1997. 184 s. *Vičar, Jan: Imprints: Essays on Czech Music and Aesthetics. Vydavatelství Univerzity Palackého Olomouc (), Togga Praha (), 2005. 251 s. *Vičar, Jan; Dykast, Roman Hudební estetika. Praha. Akademie múzických umění 1998. 184 s. spisem Jiřího Sehnala Varhany na Moravě.

Editions

*Křupková, Lenka Korespondence Vítězslava Nováka v letech 1890-1905. Elektronická edice korespondence. In: http://www.musicologica.cz 2004 *Sehnal, Jiří Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber: Instrumentalwerke handschriftlicher Überlieferung, Graz 1997, IX, 116 S. DTÖ 151. *Sehnal, Jiří Adam Michna z Otradovic: Svatoroční muzika. Praha 2001. AMC Vol. 5 *Sehnal, Jiří Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber: Ausgewählte Werke 2. Salzburg 2001. XVI, 76 s. DMS Bd. 10 *Sehnal, Jiří Adam Michna z Otradovic: Officium Vespertinum - Psalmi 1. Praha 2003. AMC Vol. 6 *Sehnal, Jiří Adam Michna z Otradovic: Officium Vespertinum - Psalmi 2. Praha 2003. AMC Vol. 7 *Sehnal, Jiří; Vičar, Jan et ali: Philipp Jakob Rittler: Requiem Claudiae Imperatricis. Olomouc 1998. ISMN: M-706513-02-7 *Sehnal, Jiří; Bělský, Vratislav: Adam Michna z Otradovic: Officium Vespertinum - Compositiones ad honorem B.M.V. - Falsi burdoni. Editio Bärenreiter 2004. 15, 58 stran, Adam Michna z Otradovic, Compositiones vol. 8 ISMN: M-2601-0300-9. *Silná, Ingrid Francesco Carlo Müller: Messa in A di Dominica pro tempore Nativitatis vel alio. Olomouc 2007. .

Periodicals and other publications

*Kritické edice hudebních památek (Critical Editions of Musical Documents; ed. Jan Vičar Alena Burešová). Olomouc, Vydavatelství Univerzity Palackého 1996. 172 s. () *Kritické edice hudebních památek II (Critical Editions of Musical Documents II; ed. Jan Vičar Božena Felgrová). Olomouc, Vydavatelství Univerzity Palackého 1998. 233 s. () *Kritické edice hudebních památek III. Korespondence jako muzikologický pramen a problém (Critical Editions of Musical Documents III; editor Stanislav Tesař). Olomouc, Vydavatelství Univerzity Palackého 1999. 166 s. () *Kritické edice hudebních památek IV. Digitalizace památek - metoda jejich ochrany a prezentace? Katalogizace jako teoretický a praktický problém muzikologické dokumentace. (Critical Editions of Musical Documents IV; editor Stanislav Tesař). Masarykova univerzita v Brně a Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci. Olomouc 2001. 194 s. (; ) *Kritické edice hudebních památek V. Varhany a jejich funkce v Čechách a na Moravě 1600-2000. In honorem Jiří Sehnal.(Critical Editions of Musical Documents V; editor Jan Vičar). Olomouc, Vydavatelství Univerzity Palackého 2003. 171 s. () *Kritické edice hudebních památek VI. Hudba v Olomouci - historie a současnost I. In honorem Pavel Čotek. (Critical Editions of Musical Documents VI; editor Eva Vičarová). Olomouc, Vydavatelství Univerzity Palackého 2003. 170 s. () *Kritické edice hudebních památek VII. Hudba v Olomouci - historie a současnost II. In honorem Robert Smetana. (Critical Editions of Musical Documents VII; editor Alena Burešová). Olomouc, Vydavatelství Univerzity Palackého 2004. 400 s. (; ) *Musicologica Olomucensia I (editor Jan Vičar). Acta Universitatis Palackianae Olomucensis Facultas Philosophica, Philosophica - Aesthetica 12. Olomouc, Vydavatelství Univerzity Palackého (Palacký University Publishers), 1993. 146 s. () *Musicologica Olomucensia II (editor Jan Vičar). Acta Universitatis Palackianae Olomucensis Philosophica, Philosophica - Aesthetica 14. Olomouc, Vydavatelství Univerzity Palackého 1995. 142 s. () *Musicologica Olomucensia III. In honorem Jaroslav Jiránek (ed. Jan Vičar a Lenka Křupková). Acta Universitatis Palackianae Olomucensis Facultas Philosophica, Philosophica-Aesthetica 15. Olomouc, Vydavatelství Univerzity Palackého 1997. 180 s. () *Musicologica Olomucensia IV. De consortiis musicis et musicorum musicaeque in Bohemia Moraviaque circulatione 1600-1900 - fontium litterarumque status (Musical Institutions and the Circulation of Music and Musicians in Bohemia and Moravia, 1600-1900 - the State of the Sources and the Current Literature) (ed. Jan Vičar Eva Slavíčková). Acta Universitatis Palackianae Olomucensis Facultas Philosophica, Philosophica-Aesthetica 17. Olomouc, Vydavatelství Univerzity Palackého 1998. 230 s. () *Musicologica Olomucensia V (ed. Ivan Poledňák a Helena Chaloupková). Acta Universitatis Palackianae Olomucensis, Facultas Philosophica, Philosophica-Aesthetica 19., 2000, 222 s. ( ; ISSN 1212-1193) *Musicologica Olomucensia VI. In honorem Ivan Poledňák (ed. Jan Vičar a František Havelka). Acta Universitatis Palackianae Olomucensis Facultas Philosophica, Philosophica-Aesthetica 20 - 2001, 264 s. ( ; ISSN 1212-1193) *Musicologica Olomucensia VII. (ed. Paul Christiansen). Acta Universitatis Palackianae Olomucensis Facultas Philosophica, Philosophica-Aesthetica 28 - 2005, 147 s. ( ; ISSN 1212-1193) *Musicologica Olomucensia VIII. (ed. Jiří Kopecký). Acta Universitatis Palackianae Olomucensis Facultas Philosophica, Philosophica-Aesthetica 31 - 2006, 236 s. ( ; ISSN 1212-1193) *Musicologica Olomucensia IX. In honorem Ivan Poledňák (ed. Lenka Křupková). Acta Universitatis Palackianae Olomucensis Facultas Philosophica, Philosophica-Aesthetica 33 - 2007, 274 s. (; ISSN 1212-1193) Hudba v Olomuci a na střední Moravě I. In memoriam Vladimír Hudec (ed. Eva Vičarová). Olomouc. Vydavatelství Univerzity Palackého 2007. 337 s., () součástí publikace je hudební DVD

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