Několik písní Jana Augusty v novém kontextu
Several songs by Jan Augusta in a new context

Summary/Abstract: Hymnography of the 16th century, hymnbook, the Unity of the Brethern, the Utraquist, the Habrovany community, Jan Blahoslav, Jan Augusta, indexes of composers of protestant songs, authorship. Jan Augusta is one of the most prolific song composers of the early modern times. The list of his songs that were allowed to be printed in the hymn-book of Unity of Brethren is to be found in Jan Blahoslav’s index of song authors. Many of Jan Augusta’s songs can also be found in the only preserved handwritten hymn-book called Brother Jan Augusta’s Songs that was prepared by him in prison. However, there are five songs in the index whose authorship is uncertain. Our intention was to verify their authorship using the handwritten hymn-book that has never been used by any researchers. The results reveal that the above-mentioned hymn-book from 1598 can be regarded as a relatively reliable source. By contrast, we recommend analyzing the data from Urban’s index critically. The study tries to present the differences of songs if authorship were ascribed to the person who edited the text as it was common during those times. Such approach is based on work with the specific song material as well as on comparing the songs from Habrovany and Utraquist hymn-books. The various text alterations show that the Brethren terminology and doctrine principles were used there. We found that in one case there are two different songs in hymn-books but their differences have never been examined by researchers. Other songs have undergone a variety of different modifications ranging from marginal ones to several texts edited more times in various editions. Jan Augusta as the editor could be hypothetically, in some cases, the person who made the text editing. According to current standards, however, Augusta cannot be considered as the author.

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