{"id":598,"date":"2020-06-16T13:59:08","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T12:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dvorak-society.org\/New\/?page_id=598"},"modified":"2026-02-06T15:50:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T15:50:15","slug":"journal-of-czech-and-slovak-music","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.dvorak-society.org\/?page_id=598","title":{"rendered":"Journal of Czech and Slovak Music"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Dvo\u0159\u00e1k Society\u2019s Journal of Czech and Slovak Music (JCSM)<\/em> is a more formal and substantial publication than the quarterly Newsletter<\/em> and is issued periodically as availability of articles permits. Contributors are generally internationally acknowledged experts in their fields. The contents deal with various aspects of Czech and Slovak music and its personalities, performers and performances. The journal also includes book reviews.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Availability of the JCSM<\/strong>
Members of the Dvo\u0159\u00e1k Society receive copies of the journal on publication of each issue. Otherwise copies are lodged with United Kingdom national deposit libraries and certain other municipal and music libraries. It is possible to purchase copies (subject to availability) from our our E-shop<\/strong><\/a> or from our Sales Manager<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Website abstracts<\/strong>
Abstracts of some issues of the JCSM<\/em> can be viewed on this website by clicking the relevant links below. The Dvo\u0159\u00e1k Society is grateful to members Bill and Vera Marsden and Patrick Devine for producing these abstracts. There is also cumulative index to Czech Music<\/em> and other society Journals: 1974 to 2023 here<\/a>.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volume 8<\/a>:<\/strong> includes material on\u2009:\u2013 
\u2022 \u2018Goethe and Tom\u00e1\u0161ek\u2019
\u2022 Josef Bohuslav Foerster
\u2022 Dvo\u0159\u00e1k, Josefina and the Cello Concerto<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volume 9<\/a><\/strong>: includes material on\u2009:\u2013
\u2022 Slovak Music: A Introduction (1)
\u2022 Slovak Music: A Introduction (2)
\u2022 Dvo\u0159\u00e1k\u2019s Australian Success<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volume 10<\/a>:<\/strong> includes material on\u2009:\u2013 
\u2022 Smetana\u2019s Achievement: A Centenary Survey
\u2022 Otakar Ostr\u010dil: Part One 
\u2022 Otakar Ostr\u010dil: Part One <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volume 11<\/a><\/strong>: includes material on\u2009:\u2013 
\u2022 Dvo\u0159\u00e1k\u2019s financial difficulties in America <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volume 12<\/a><\/strong>: includes material on\u2009:\u2013
\u2022 The composer Alexander Moyzes
\u2022 The composer Josef Suk <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volume 13<\/a><\/strong>: includes material on\u2009:\u2013
\u2022 Dvo\u0159\u00e1k and the Basset Horn
\u2022 Fact and fiction about Czech Composers <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volume 14<\/a>:<\/strong> includes material on\u2009:\u2013 
\u2022 Viktor Ullmann\u2019s last opera \u2022 The Emperor of Atlantis
\u2022 Reicha\u2019s Wind Quintets
\u2022 Czech Melodrama
\u2022 The Slovak composer Eugen Sucho\u0148
\u2022 Jan\u00e1\u010dek\u2019s attitudes to, and relationships with, women and the effect on his compositions
\u2022 The Czech incarnation of the water nymph myth as Rusalka
\u2022 The Moravian composer Anton\u00edn Tu\u010dapsk\u00fd<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volume 15<\/a><\/strong>: includes material on\u2009:\u2013
\u2022 Dvo\u0159\u00e1k and the Symphony
\u2022 Anton\u00edn Rejcha\u2019s music for wind instruments
\u2022 The notion of a Czech national opera \u2022 Jan\u00e1\u010dek as a campaigning composer for the Czech cause
\u2022 Introduction to Jan\u00e1\u010dek\u2019s K\u00e1t\u2019a Kabanov\u00e1
\u2022 Versions of Jan\u00e1\u010dek\u2019s Violin Sonata<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volume 16 No. 1<\/a><\/strong>: includes material on\u2009:\u2013 
\u2022 Petr Eben’s views on contemporary music and his own approach to composition
\u2022 Contemporary music in Brno 
\u2022 Bohemian musicians in Great Britain in the second half of the 18th and the 19th Centuries <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volume 16 No. 2<\/a><\/strong>: includes material on\u2009:\u2013
Martin\u016f\u2019s Search for the Meaning of Life and for Truth 
Martin\u016f\u2019s links with London in the 1930s 
The early reception of Dvo\u0159\u00e1k\u2019s music abroad 
Dvo\u0159\u00e1k\u2019s Rusalka on film and video <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volume 17 No. 1<\/a><\/strong>: includes material on\u2009:\u2013 
The relationship between Smetana and Dvo\u0159\u00e1k (and between their supporters) 
\u2022 Musical influences by other composers on Dvo\u0159\u00e1k 
\u2022 Dvo\u0159\u00e1k\u2019s inner world 
\u2022 The influence of Dvo\u0159\u00e1k on Elgar. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volume 17 No.2<\/a><\/strong>: includes material on\u2009:\u2013 
\u2022 Misconceptions about Dvo\u0159\u00e1k\u2019s \u201cna\u00efvety\u201d 
\u2022 The Vodn\u00edk in Czech culture 
\u2022 Martin\u016f\u2019s opera \u201cJulietta\u201d 
\u2022 Preissov\u00e1\u2019s drama \u201cGazdina Roba\u201d 
\u2022 Beecham and Dvo\u0159\u00e1k. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volume 18 No.1<\/a><\/strong>: includes material on\u2009:\u2013 
\u2022 The myth about Dvo\u0159\u00e1k the apprentice butcher 
\u2022 Dvo\u0159\u00e1k and the 19th century oratorio 
\u2022 Dvo\u0159\u00e1k and Josef\u00edna Kounicov\u00e1 
\u2022 Smetana\u2019s \u201cLibu\u0161e<\/em>\u201d and Dvo\u0159\u00e1k\u2019s \u201cVanda<\/em>\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volume 18 No.2<\/a><\/strong>: includes material on\u2009:\u2013 
\u2022 Dvo\u0159\u00e1k\u2019s early musical education 
\u2022 Dvo\u0159\u00e1k, black Americans and native Americans
\u2022 Dvo\u0159\u00e1k\u2019s association with Spillville in the United States 
\u2022 American musical influences on Dvo\u0159\u00e1k 
\u2022 The American journalist James Creelman 
\u2022 The financial aspects of Dvo\u0159\u00e1k\u2019s stay in the United States 
\u2022 Arguments for and against the quality of Martin\u016f\u2019s music. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volume 19<\/a><\/strong>: includes material on\u2009:\u2013 
\u2022 Harmonic experimentation in Dvo\u0159\u00e1k\u2019s music 
\u2022 Whether certain compositions of Dvo\u0159\u00e1k are American or Bohemian in character 
\u2022 Dvo\u0159\u00e1k and the clarinet 
\u2022 Musical relationship between Mahler and Smetana 
\u2022 Mahler and Czech culture 
\u2022 The 18th century composer Kammel 
\u2022 Martin\u016f\u2019s accident in Tanglewood 
\u2022 The contribution of Fibich to Czech music 
The \u201cAsrael Symphony\u201d of Suk 
Musical influences on Foerster. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volume 20<\/a><\/strong>: includes material on\u2009:\u2013 
\u2022 The dumka in the music of Dvo\u0159\u00e1k and Jan\u00e1\u010d\u00e9k 
\u2022 American National anthem and Dvo\u0159\u00e1k \u2022 Retouches and alterations in Smetana\u2019s \u201cM\u00e1 Vlast<\/em>\u201d 
\u2022 Relationship between Martin\u016f and V\u00edt\u011bzslava Kapr\u00e1lov\u00e1
\u2022 Martin\u016f and the death motif
\u2022 Martin\u016f in Cleveland
\u2022 The 18th century composer \u0160t\u011bp\u00e1n
\u2022 Benda\u2019s singspiels and Mozart
\u2022 The melodramas of Suk
\u2022 Popular melodramas in the Czech lands
\u2022 Czech and Slovak musical philately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volume 21<\/a><\/strong>: includes material on\u2009:\u2013 
\u2022 The early years of the Dvo\u0159\u00e1k Society 
\u2022 Missing bars in Martin\u016f Symphony No. 4 
\u2022 The Moravian contribution to Czech Music 
\u2022 Jan\u00e1\u010dek and the lyricist Ozef Kalda 
\u2022 Dvo\u0159\u00e1k\u2019s music in 19th century Melbourne
\u2022 Czech & Moravian court and household Orchestras in the 17th to 19th Centuries
\u2022 The life and music of V\u00edt\u011bzslava Kapr\u00e1lov\u00e1 
\u2022 Kapr\u00e1lov\u00e1\u2019s Partita and Martin\u016f
\u2022 Martin\u016f\u2019s Moravian pupils V\u00edt\u011bzslava Kapr\u00e1lov\u00e1 and Jan Nov\u00e1k 
\u2022 Smetana\u2019s operas 
\u2022 Karel Husa
\u2022 The choral music of Anton\u00edn Tu\u010dapsk\u00fd 
\u2022 Musical persecution under Nazism and Communism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volume 22<\/strong>:<\/a> includes material on\u2009:\u2013 
\u2022 Changes along the Overgrown Path: Jan\u00e1\u010dek\u2019s Attitudes to Smetana 
\u2022 Josef Suk
\u2022 A Half Century with the Music of Bohuslav Martin\u016f
\u2022 Josef Suk\u2019s Non-Obstinate Ostinato Movements : A Study of Harmony and Style
\u2022 Myth, Legend and a Little Poetic Licence
\u2022 Johannes Sperger: A Neglected Composer from Valtice
\u2022 Charlotte Martin\u016f (1894-1978): A Faithful Heart<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volume 23<\/strong>:<\/a> includes material on\u2009:\u2013 
\u2022 Martinu\u2019s \u201cImpressive Quiet\u201d
\u2022 Places of Residence of the Young Antonin Dvo\u0159\u00e1k and His Parents, 1841-1860
\u2022 Bed\u0159ich Smetana
\u2022 Josef Barto\u0161\u2019s View of Dvo\u0159\u00e1k
\u2022 Dvo\u0159\u00e1k as Criticised in the Periodical Smetana and in the Writings by Members of its Editorial Circle <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volume 24<\/a><\/strong>: includes material on\u2009:\u2013 
\u2022 Seamless, Original and Czech: Smetana\u2019s Struggle to Produce a National Opera
\u2022 The Kostelni\u010dka: A Life Before and After
\u2022 The Fights over Dvo\u0159\u00e1k as Reflected in Josef Suk\u2019s Correspondence
\u2022 Anton\u00edn Dvo\u0159\u00e1k
\u2022 Dvo\u0159\u00e1k\u2019s Abodes and Travels during his Bacherol Years, 1860-1873: Physical and Human Environments for his First Major Outpouring of Works.
\u2022 Nejedl\u00fd\u2019s Critique of Dvo\u0159\u00e1k as an Opera Composer
\u2022 1941: The Dvo\u0159\u00e1k Centenary Celebrations in London and Elsewhere in the United Kingdom
\u2022 Rudolf Firku\u0161n\u00fd in Concert Hall and Studio<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volume 25<\/a><\/strong>: includes material on\u2009:\u2013
\u2022 The Piano Rhapsodies of Jan V\u00e1clav Vo\u0159\u00ed\u0161ek
\u2022 Smetana\u2019s Illness Unravelled
\u2022 Dvo\u0159\u00e1k\u2019s Abodes and Travels During the First Years of His Marriage (1873-77)
\u2022 Talich: On the Problem of National Purification (Part 1)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volume 26<\/a><\/strong>: includes material on\u2009:\u2013 
\u2022 A first supplement to the Vil\u00e9m Tausk\u00fd discography
\u2022 Towards a stemma of the MS sources of Dvo\u0159\u00e1k\u2019s Mass in D<\/em>
\u2022 Czech music through the eyes (and ears) of an Englishman
\u2022 Uncovering early Martin\u016f
\u2022 The November 1943 London production of Smetana\u2019s The Bartered Bride<\/em> (Prodan\u00e1 nev\u0115sta<\/em>)
\u2022 V\u00e1clav Jan Tom\u00e1\u0161ek\u2019s Goethe lieder \u2022 Oskar Nedbal (1874\u20131930)
\u2022 Talich: On the problem of national purification (Part Two)
\u2022 A second supplement to the Rudolf Firku\u0161n\u00fd discography<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volume 27<\/a><\/strong>: includes material on\u2009:\u2013 
\u2022 The power of advocacy in music: The case of V\u00edt\u011bzslava Kapr\u00e1lov\u00e1
\u2022 A \u2018forgotten\u2019 recording of the Martin\u016f Cello Sonata no.1
\u2022 Petr Altrichter: A discography
\u2022 Vil\u00e9m Tausk\u00fd\u2019s \u2018uncles\u2019: 1 \u2013 Leo Ascher
\u2022 The significance of music in the birth of the Czechoslovak state
\u2022 The forgotten generation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volume 28<\/a><\/strong>: includes material on\u2009:\u2013 
\u2022 The \u2018Stamitz\u2019 caprices for solo flute
\u2022 \u2018Rare in a generation of remarkable women\u2019: Mildred Hill, Dvo\u0159\u00e1k, Black
street cries and the making of \u2018Happy Birthday\u2019
\u2022 The United Kingdom career of Jarmila Novotn\u00e1 in the late 1920s and 1930s
\u2022 The Panocha Quartet: A catalogue of recordings
\u2022 The position of Martin\u016f\u2019s music in Great Britain
\u2022 The role of the motto in Dvo\u0159\u00e1k\u2019s Requiem
\u2022 Ferdinand Sabathil, Bohemian flautist and composer (1852\u20131937)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volume 29<\/strong><\/a>: includes material on:\u2013
\u2022 Gideon Klein: Rediscovering the rediscovered
\u2022 Anton\u00edn Kammell and his English patrons
\u2022 The position of Martin\u016f\u2019s music in Great Britain
\u2022 Sigmund Goldschmidt (1815\u20131877): Piano virtuoso, composer and banker
\u2022 Kapr\u00e1lov\u00e1 as a Composer of the Week: The BBC interview<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volume 30<\/strong><\/a>: includes material on:\u2013
\u2022 A note about the cover photograph
\u2022 Recent interviews with Czech women composers, part 1
\u2022 Anton\u00edn Dvo\u0159\u00e1k and the concept of Czechness
\u2022 Musica Antiqua Bohemica
\u2022 Zden\u011bk Fibich as viewed by Leo\u0161 Jan\u00e1\u010dek
\u2022 Petr Eben\u2019s Lidov\u00e9 p\u00edsn\u0115 a koledy [Folk Songs and Carols]
\u2022 The many loves of Anton\u00edn Dvo\u0159\u00e1k: A personal voyage of discovery
\u2022 Joseph K\u00fcttel (c1809\u20131857), leading flautist in Prague<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volume 31<\/strong><\/a>: includes material on:
\u2022 Leopold Lion from Prague
\u2022 Jan Nov\u00e1k revisited
\u2022 Hans Winterbertg: Designated survivor
\u2022 Czech patriotism in an overture inspired by Brahms: Dvo\u0159\u00e1k\u2019s Husitsk\u00e1
\u2022 Recent interviews with Czech women composers, part 2
\u2022 On the tracks of Leo\u0161 Jan\u00e1\u010dek: An Englishman\u2019s quest to uncover Czech sources and gain access to the composer\u2019s letters to Kamila St\u00f6sslov\u00e1 in the Brno archives in the late 1970s
\u2022 Philipp Broch (1812\u20131864), notable Jewish violinist and composer
\u2022 On the genesis of Jan\u00e1\u010dek\u2019s piano cycle On an Overgrown Path<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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