Abstrakt Intonation theory of the Russian musicologist Boris Asafyev became a significant topic for Czech Marxist music aesthetics and science in 1950s and 60s of the last century. It influences the thoughts of Praque leading personalities – Antonín Sychra and Jaroslav Jiránek. These scientists saw in Asafyev’s intonation theory an analytic method, by which the existence of socialistic realism as a developemental lawful artificial style can be proved. An interest in the intonation theory initiated the developement of so called intonational analysis used mainly on the work of the Czech classics B. Smetana, A. Dvořák and L. Janáček. The term Intonation reached in the 1950s a wide spectrum of meanings begining with structural detail up to whole music genre and style. Nevertheless the intonation analysis focused mostly on the melodic component. Here starts the thinking towards tectonics and the content of a work. During 1970s, intonational analysis was substitued by modern methods of analysis (tectonic, semantic, interpretative etc.).

Miloš Hons:
Intonation theory and Czech music science of 50´s and 60´s of last century
Stati a studie / Živá hudba 2014/5 / Publikováno 3. 3. 2015