doc. PhDr. Hana Vlhová-Wörner, Ph.D.

Education

• 2009: Habilitation, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague
• 2000–2001: postgraduate studies, Institut für Musikwissenschaft, University of Basel
• 2000: PhD., Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague
• 1991–1993: studies in musicology, Institut für Musikwissenschaft, University of Basel
• 1985–1989: studies of musicology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague, (1990 PhDr. title granted)

Previous Employment

• 2019–2024: Deputy-Professor (Vertretungprofessur) and guest lecturer, Seminar of Musicology, University of Basel
• 2016–2017: Director of the Institute of Music History in the Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences
• 2012–2017: School of Music, Bangor University, Wales, Great Britain, Senior Lecturer (2012–2016), Reader (2016–2017); Senior Tutor (2012–2013); Director of Graduate Studies (2013–2015); Director of Research and Deputy Head of School (2015–2016)
• 2011–2012: Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor, Institute of Sacred Music, Yale University, U.S.
• 2007–2010: Lecturer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, U.S.
• 2006: Visiting Professor, Duke University, U.S.
• 1993–2006: Institute of Musicology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague

Research Projects (selection)

• Reception of French Liturgical Music in Central Europe in the High Middle Ages, project Lead Agency sponsored by the Czech Science Foundation and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (collaboration between the Masaryk Institute and Archives, Czech Academy of Sciences and the University of Würzburg), 2024–2027 (PI)
• Old Myths, New Facts. Czech Lands in Centre of 15th-Century Music Developments, project EXPRO – Czech Science Foundation (collaboration between the Masaryk Institute and Archives, Czech Academy of Sciences and the Faculty of Arts, Charles University Prague), 2019–2023 (PI)
• Repertory of Mass Tropes in the Prague Diocese (11th-16th c.), GA ČR, 2001–2003

Research Interests

• Latin liturgical poetry, with a focus on sequences and tropes
• Music and rite in St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague
• The Jistebnice hymn book and 15th-century Czech liturgy
• The dissemination and transformation of Latin repertoire from the early to late Middle Ages
• History of early music musicology

Membership in Academic Bodies, Research Institutions, Scholarly Societies, and Editorial Boards

• Chair, Study Group "Cantus Planus" of the International Musicological Society (since 2024)
• Member of the editorial board of the journals: Studie o rukopisech, Musicologica Slovaca, Arte Factum
• Member of the Board of the Institute of Musicology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague
• Member of the Board of the Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences (2016–2017)
• Member of societies: Plainsong and Medieval Music Society (executive trustee), American musicological Society, International Musicological Society – Study Group “Cantus Planus”

Bibliography:

Publication list at MIA CAS: here

Most Important Publications since 2015:

Books

• Vlhová-Wörner, Hana (ed.), Vyšší Brod 42. A Unique Music Source from Pre-Hussite Bohemia, with contributions by Lenka Hlávková, Jan Ciglbauer, and Pavel Kodýtek, Prague Medieval Studies, vol. 4, Prague: Karolinum 2025.
• Vlhová-Wörner, Hana; Ciglbauer, Jan, Music in Fifteenth-Century Bohemia. Between Reform and Identity Building, Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press 2025.
• Nedbal, Martin, St. Pierre, Kelly; Vlhová-Wörner, Hana, A History of Music in the Czech Lands, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2025.
• Vlhová-Wörner, Hana; Kolár, Jaroslav; Nejedlý, Petr; Frei, Jan; Holeton, David R.; Baťová, Eliška, Jistebnický kancionál II. Cantionale, Chomutov: Nakladatelství Luboš Marek, 2019.
• Musiktheorie. Zeitschrift für Musikwissenschaft 3 (2019): Digital humanities (guest editor)
• Index Sequentiarum Bohemiae Medii Aevi (online database), September 2018 (www.hymnologica.cz)
• Manuscripti liturgici ecclesiae Pragensis (online database), August 2016 (www.hymnologica.cz)

Journal Articles

• Vlhová-Wörner, Hana, "Nationale historiografische Perspektiven. Über aktuelle Herausforderungen für die Musikgeschichtsschreibung im böhmischen Kulturraum", Die Musikforschung 78/3 (2025): 249–252.
• Vlhová-Wörner, Hana, "The last pages of the Jistebnice Kancionál. The Repertory of the 'Additamenta' Section (ff. 111r–132v)", Hudební věda 61/4 (2024): 466–489.
• Vlhová-Wörner, Hana, "Cantus fractus in Pre-Hussite Bohemia: Lost Repertories and Reconstruction Challenges", Journal of the Alamire Foundation 15/1 (2023), 11–31.
• Vlhová-Wörner, Hana, "Benedicamus Domino tropes in the monastery of Benedictine nuns at St George's Prague", Early Music 50/4 (2022): 419–434.

Book Chapters

• Vlhová-Wörner, Hana, "Late Chant Compositions in the Kraków Gradual from the Fifteenth Century", in Gradual Wawelski (Kraków, AIBKKK, Ms. 45). Studium Przypadku, eds. Susi Ferfoglia; Wojciech Baran, Kraków: Wydawnictwo Księgarnia Akademicka, 2025, 237–254.
• Vlhová-Wörner, Hana, "Medieval Traditions of Plainchant in Bohemia", in A History of Music in the Czech Lands, eds. Martin Nedbal; Kelly St. Pierre; Hana Vlhová-Wörner, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025.
• Vlhová-Wörner, Hana, "Sequences in Late Medieval Bohemia: Transformations in Genre, Form, and Function", in Music in Fifteenth-Century Bohemia. Between Reform and Identity Building, eds. Hana Vlhová-Wörner, Jan, Ciglbauer, Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2025, 11–50.
• Vlhová-Wörner, Hana, "Secundum morem nostrum and secundum morem secularem: the Liturgical Repertory in the Manuscript Vyšší Brod 42", in Vyšší Brod 42. A Unique Music Source from Pre-Hussite Bohemia, ed. Hana, Vlhová-Wörner, with contributions by Lenka Hlávková, Jan Ciglbauer and Pavel Kodýtek, Prague Medieval Studies, vol. 4, Prague: Karolinum, 2025, 85–174.
• Vlhová-Wörner, Hana, Agnus Pairing and Disappearing: A contribution to the late chant tradition in Bohemia, in Study Group, ‘Cantus Planus’ (Venice, Italy, 2014, 28 July – 1 August), ed. James Borders, Venezia: Edizioni Fondazione Levi, 2020, 225–238.
• Vlhová-Wörner, Hana, Liturgical poetry and poetical liturgy. Texts of motet cycles as continuation of longer compositional practice, in Motet Cycles Between Devotion and Liturgy, eds. Daniele Filippi; Agnese Pavanello, Basel: Schwabe, 2019 (Schola Cantorum Basiliensis Scripta), 135–156.
• Vlhová-Wörner, Hana, Novum sidus orientis: New identification perspectives, in Beredte Musik. Konversationen zum 80. Geburtstag von Wulf Arlt, ed. Martin Kirnbauer, Basel: Schwabe, 2018 (Schola Cantorum Basiliensis Scripta 8), 457–466.
• Vlhová-Wörner, Hana, Heslo Berkeley Traktate-Sammlung, in Lexikon musiktheoretischer Schriften, eds. Ullrich Scheideler, Felix Wörner, Kassel u. a.: Bärenreiter, 2017, 353–355.
• Vlhová-Wörner, Hana, Zdeněk Nejedlý’s (1878–1962) historical narrative and ideological construction of Czech medieval music history, in Nationality and Universality. Music Historiographies in Central and Eastern Europe, ed. Slawomira Zeranska-Kominek, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016, 175–195.