Czech Musicological Society

Ethnological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, p.r.i. –

Department of Music History

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Review of the 2008 activities

General information on the Society

The Czech Musicological Society (Česká společnost pro hudební vědu, o.s.) was founded in 1990, and up to 2000 was member of the Association of Musicians and Musicologists (AHUV). Its members are musicologists living, working and studying in the Czech Republic, and also abroad. Its aim is to help to create conditions for the continuation and development of musicological research and the presentation of its results. To support this aim, the Czech Musicological Society regularly organises scholarly conferences and student reaserch competitions, links with other musicological and music organisations at home and abroad, and protects specialist interests of its members, and issues publications.

At present, the Czech Musicological Society has eighty-four members, including three foreign and five honorary members.

A. The Board of the Society

In 2008, the Committee of the Czech Musicological Society consisted of PhDr. Jitka Bajgarová, CSc. (President), PhDr. Petr Macek, PhD. (vice-President), PhDr. Věra Šustíková (vice-President), PhDr. Markéta Kabelková (Treasurer), PhDr. Jana Vozková, CSc., PhDr. Pavel Sýkora, PhD., Mgr. et MgA. Miloslav Študent, Mgr. Vladimír Maňas, PhD., Mgr. Viktor Pantůček (members of the Committee); Mgr. Jan Kachlík, PhD., Mgr. Tereza Kibicová, Mgr. Michal Matzner (Controllers).

Members of the Committee of the Czech Musicological Society gathered in 2008 at three important meetings (January 25th, May 6th, and October 16th), the minutes of which are available at the Czech Musicological Society office. In between, they met at numerous other meetings, dealing with specific problems, and were in permanent touch by e-mail.

B. Grants

The Czech Musicological Society obtained in 2008 three grants: from the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, to organise the 2008 annual conference (fifteen thousand CZK), from the Council of Scientifical Societies at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, to prepare the new presentation of the Society (twenty-five thousand CZK) and from the Czech Music Fund Foundation, to publish the Miscellanea, joining together the 2006 and 2007 Czech Musicological Society annual conference papers (ten thousand CZK). The Czech Musicological Society was also supported by the Ethnological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic – Department of Music History (thirty thousand CZK, to co-edit and help the Miscellanea publication).

C. Specialist activities of the Czech Musicological Society

The 2008 Annual Conference of the Czech Musicological Society

The subject of the annual, international conference of the Czech Musicological Society was the Phenomenon of sponsorship in music culture / Kabeláč – Ištvan (Fenomén mecenášství v hudební kultuře / Kabeláč – Ištvan); the conference took part from December 5th-6th, 2008, in the Czech Museum of Music, Prague, in co-operation with the Department of Music History of the Ethnological Institute of the Academy of Sciences, the National Museum-Czech Museum of Music, and the Institute of Musicology of the Faculty of Arts of the Masaryk University Brno. Thirty papers were presented at the conference; it was attended by about fifty listeners. The participants came mainly from the Czech Republic, but also from Slovakia, Germany and Slovenia. The conference included a concert of works by Miloslav Ištvan, a gift of the Brno artistic association Sdružení Q. The conference papers are to be published in the Miscellanea z výročních konferencí ČSHV [The Czech Musicological Society Annual Conference Miscellanies]. The conference is to be reviewed in the journal Hudební věda [Musicology] as well as other music journals.

Publications

The edition of the third volume of the Miscellanea z výročních konferencí ČSHV 2006 a 2007 [The Czech Musicological Society Annual 2006 and 2007 Conference Miscellanies] (edited by Jan Baťa), was prepared in 2008; it was financially supported by the Ethnological Institute of the Academy of Sciences and the Czech Music Fund Foundation, and published by the AGORA publishing house by the date of the 2008 annual conference. Also the new, up-to-date edition of the handbook Kdo je kdo v současné české muzikologii [Who is who in the current Czech musicology] (edited by Kateřina Hnátová), was prepared, to be published in 2010.

In the Czech Musicological Society office are available the following issues of the Society publications:

Miscellanea z výročních konferencí 1999–2000 (Prague 2001), Miscellanea z výročních konferencí 2001–2005 (Prague 2006), Miscellanea z výročních konferencí ČSHV 2006 a 2007 (Prague 2008) and the third edition of the handbook Kdo je kdo v současné české muzikologii (Prague 2006).

The Student research competition was not planned in 2008, and therefore also not organised.

D. General meeting of the Czech Musicological Society

The general meeting of the Czech Musicological Society was, as usual, organised in the frame of the annual conference, i.e. December 6th, 2008, also in the Czech Museum of Music. Its chief points were reading and approval of the 2008 Activity Review (J. Bajgarová), Management Review (M. Kabelková), Control Commission Review (J. Kachlík) and the 2009 Czech Musicological Society Activity Plan (V. Šustíková), and rise of membership fees (from 300/150 CZK to 400/200 CZK), information on the Saarbrücken discussions of the European musicological societies, certification of new memberships, and others. The guest of the general meeting and annual conference was the President of the Slovenian Musicological Society, Dr Gregor Pompe.