The study presents an analysis of Ten Virtuoso Etudes for Clarinet, written in 1992 by the eminent Czech clarinetist and teacher at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague Jiří Hlaváč (1948). The author, a laureate of several international clarinet competitions and Hlaváč’s...

The following essay describes the efforts of its authors to encourage the creation of concert melodramas by German composers to Czech texts. This effort became the subject of the project “Czech composers set German texts to music, and German composers set Czech texts &#...

This article analyzes of philosophical approaches and methods of teaching musical instru- ments at traditional Japanese schools. These approaches have a long history within the Japanese Iemoto system. This study’s author highlights several similarities between some conceptual settings of&...

In Slovak musical life and academic environment Irena Medňanská (1950–2020) represented a personality whose tireless organizational, project, music-making, legislative and advisory activities left a permanent and lasting mark in music education, music schooling, and cog- nitive reflections of&...