- Horsbrugh, Ian. LeosJanácek: The Field That Prospered.New York: Scribner,
- 327p. ISBN 0-684-17443-X. ML410 .J18 H81.
A useful study, with footnotes, pictures, musical examples, and lengthy pro-
gram notes on the operas. Premiere information and bibliographic data about
the stage works are in an appendix. Expansive index of names and titles. - Hollander, Hans. LeosJanácek: His Life and Work.Trans. Paul Hamburger.
New York: St. Martin’s, 1963. 222p. ML410 .J18 H64.
A footnoted life and works, with about 30 pages of program notes on the
operas. Worklist, with titles in Czech and English, and publication informa-
tion. Partly expansive index of names and titles. The German translation by
Kurt Honolka (Stuttgart: Belser, 1982) includes some updating of the text and
bibliography and adds a chronology but omits the footnotes; its worklist has
titles in Czech and German; its index is to names only.
Operas in General
- Ewans, Michael. Janácek’s Tragic Operas.London: Faber & Faber, 1977.
284p. ISBN 0-571-10959-4. ML410 .J18 E9.
A German translation was published (Stuttgart: Reclam, 1981). Extended pro-
gram notes on the major operas, with some analytical observations. Com-
ments on the available editions and on the state of Janácek scholarship. Ewans
cites the books he finds valuable, all of them in Czech. Expansive index of
names, titles, and topics. - Tyrrell, John R. “Janácek’s Stylistic Development as an Operatic Composer, as
Evidenced in His Revisions of the First Five Operas.” Ph.D. diss., U. of
Oxford, 1969. 2v. - Tyrrell, John R. “Janácek’s Recitatives.” In Janácek(#1069), 3–19.
The composer’s indication “recit” does not always call for traditional recita-
tive. He was opposed to recitative in the old sense; he probably meant “speech
melody,” but it is never certain what his intention was. - Tyrrell, John R. Janácek’s Operas: A Documentary Account.Princeton, N.J.:
Princeton U.P., 1992. xxv, 405p. ISBN 0-6910-9148-X. ML410 .J18 A4.
A chapter of analysis for each of the nine operas. Also letters and other writ-
ings of the composer, translated with commentaries. Bibliography, index.
Individual Works
The Cunning Little Vixen (Pqíhody lisky bystrousky)
ASO84 (1986).
- Josephson, Nors. “Musical and Dramatic Organization in Janácek’s The Cun-
ning Little Vixen.” In Janácek(#1069), 83–91.
Shows through musical examples and scene-by-scene analysis the motivic per-
mutations and organization in the opera. It is “based on a recurring intervallic
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