Six Observations on the Performation of Hába´s Microtonal Music
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| Year of publication | 2021 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | This “Essays” is one of the chapters of the book “New Paths in Opera: Martinů—Burian—Hába—Schulhoff—Ullmann”. The study is dedicated to the applied interpretation and performance of the microtonal works of Alois Hába, especially his chamber and choral compositions. In the general perspective of music history, Alois Hába is usually characterised as one of the leading protagonists of the Central European inter-war avant-garde that moved between Vienna, Berlin and Prague. In the specific context of Czech music he likewise has the reputation of an exemplary innovator but is considered to have been strongly rooted in tradition as well. Hába is known primarily as a tireless propagator of microtonal and athematic music, for which his own term was "liberated music". In this music he added more subtle quarter-, fifth- and sixth-tone intervals to the semitone system and abandoned up traditional treatment of motifs. |