Musicologica Brunensia (Dec 2017)
Fukačovy výzkumy v oblasti staré hudby jako inspirace pro dnešek
Abstract
The main goal of this study is to point out the importance of Ancient Music research by Jiří Fukač, the former musicologist at Masaryk University in Brno. The so called Ancient Music was Fukač's main research topic. Beside other things, his lifelong interest was proven by establishment of a new subject "Theory and Practice of Ancient Music" to study at the Department of Musicology, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University in 1991. Fukač's two volumes diploma theses Křižovnický hudební inventář I-II (The Knights of the Cross with the Red Star Inventory I-II) from 1959 was appreciated as a remarkable and inspiring artistic work soon after it had been defended. Later, the particular findings from The Knights of the Cross with the Red Star Music Inventory were subjects of Fukač's many other texts. Methodological research of music processes within Czech Lands in the Baroque period and some related questions were other areas of Jiří Fukač's exploration. In his papers dedicated to research of Moravia in modern history, Fukač appealed for complex perception of Moravia as a geographical, demographical, ethnic, political-historical and cultural-historical phenomenon. He repeatedly turned his interest to the music performed in Mannheim in the 2nd half of the 18th century; just as to court music ensembles and migration lines problems. In 1996 his great extensive essay Tschechische Musikinventare: Zur Frage der komplexen Bearbeitung historischer Musikverzeichnisse was published. The topic of this paper is a methodology of research in the Music inventories. The outcome of Fukač's research in years 1961–1965 was an imposing experiment to document all preserved historical Music inventories in Czech lands. This attempt set the ground as well as methodological inspiration for ongoing project Hudební inventáře raného novověku v českých zemích (Music inventories of modern history within Czech lands) at Department of Musicology, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University.
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