Má vlast

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Vyšehrad above the Vltava River


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The Vltava in Prague


In this piece, Smetana uses tone painting to evoke the sounds of one of Bohemia's great rivers.[3] In his own words:


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The piece contains Smetana's most famous tune. It is an adaptation of the melody La Mantovana, attributed to the Italian renaissance tenor, Giuseppe Cenci,[5] which, in a borrowed Romanian form, was also the basis for the Israeli national anthem, Hatikvah. The tune also appears in major in an old folk Czech song Kočka leze dírou ("The Cat Crawls Through the Hole"), Hanns Eisler used it for his "Song of the Moldau”, and Stan Getz performed it as “Dear old Stockholm” (probably through another derivative of the original tune, “Ack Värmeland du sköna”).



Z českých luhů a hájů[edit]




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  1. ^ Žofín Palace Official site of Žofín Palace, accessed 7 December 2016.
  2. ^ Marta Ottlová, et al. "Smetana, Bedřich". Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online. Oxford University Press, accessed November 1, 2012.
  3. ^ Jacobson, Julius H.; Kevin Kline (2002). The classical music experience: discover the music of the world's greatest composers. New York: Sourcebooks. p. 122. ISBN 978-1-57071-950-9. 
  4. ^ [1]
  6. ^ [2]
  7. ^ Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
  8. ^ RSNO website Edinburgh performance 22 March 2013

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