Publication details
Alois Hába. Between Tradition an Inovation
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| Year of publication | 2005 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Czech music |
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| Field | Art, architecture, cultural heritage |
| Keywords | Alois Hába; Czech Music; Microtonality; Quarter-tone Music |
| Description | A biographical study of Czech composer Alois Hába (1893 - 1973)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. |
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