1. Opening Lecture: Czechness in the Age of Globalization and What it Means to Know Something

2. Czechness, Stasis and Pastoral

Ryba, Christmas Mass, Smetana, Z českých luhů a hájů; Prodaná nevěsta, overture and beginning Act; Dvořák Czech Suite, Martinů, Špalíček, Act 2

Additional Works: Vivaldi, “Spring” from Four Seasons, Beethoven, “Pastoral” Symphony; Brahms, Serenade in D Major, Berlioz

3. Czechness, Music of the Future

Fibich: Záboj, Slavoj i Luděk; Smetana, Vyšehrad, Dvořák, Holoubek; Novák, V Tatrach

Additional Works: Liszt, Les Preludes; Strauss, Don Quixote

4. When Czechness Came to Terezin:

Pavel Haas, Study for Strings, Four Chinese Songs; Gideon Klein, Trio; Viktor Ullmann, Piano Sonata #7; Hans Krasa, Tanec and Passacaglia and Fugue; Suk Asrael

5. Americanness vs. Czechness (vs. Wagner…)

Dvořák, “New World” Symphony; Cello Concerto; Quartet in F, Op.96; Quintet in Eb, Op.97

Additional Works: Wagner, Overture to Tannhäuser; Prelude to Tristan und Isolde

6. Nature-Nurture/Nature-Torture

Janáček: Příhody liškyBystroušky, Věc Makropulos, Dvořák: Rusalka

7. Czechness And the Roma

Dvořák, Cikánské písně; Janáček, Zápisník zmizelého; Foerster, “Cikánské děcko;” Jiří Červený and Tomaš Hertán, “Černý cikán;” Adolf Školka, “Černý cikán.”

Telemann, Concerto in E Minor; Vivaldi Concerto in C Major; Brahms Hungarian Dances

8. Czechness and Gender:

Music by Vitězslava Kaprálová, Ivana Loudová, Kateřina Emingerová, and Geraldine Mucha; Libretti by Gabriela Preissová, Marie Červinková-Riegrová, Smetana, “The Shepherdess”; Janáček, “Maryčka Magdonová,” Dvořák Rusalka

9. Czechness and the new Millenium

New Music, Avant-garde music, neo-Baroque, political opera…and the South Pole…

(Vít Zouhar, Miroslav Srnka, Aleš Březina, Sara Medovká)

10. Czechness and Christmas:

Michna; Vanoční mše; Zrunek, Vanoční mše, koledy

Other works: Bach Christmas Oratorio; Vaughan Williams, Fantasia on Christmas Carols