Paul WingfieldUniversity of Cambridge | Cam · Faculty of Music
Paul Wingfield
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No aspect of Janáček's operas has been publicised more widely than their alleged use of ‘speech melodies’. Indeed, most commentators now assume the a priori existence of speech melodies in the composer's operas. However, only John Tyrrell has explored the matter in depth, and many basic questions about Janáček's speech-melody theory and practice re...
On 18 July 1896 the 41-year-old Leoš Janáček left his native village of Hukvaldy in north-eastern Moravia to visit Russia. At the end of the first day of travelling he noted in his copy of František Vymazal's Rusky v devíli úlohách (Russian in Nine Lessons ; Telč, 1896): 12. hod. v noci Granica . Konečně cítím stát slovanský! … Jací šohaji, čistí,...
