prof. PaedDr. Slávka Kopčáková, PhD.
prof. PaedDr. Slávka KOPČÁKOVÁ, PhD.
e-mail: slavka.kopcakova@unipo.sk
Full professor, head of the institute
Scientific-pedagogic characteristics of guarantee scholar
Office number
No. 494 (5th floor)
Tel./office: 051/ 7570 395
Position:
University teacher in the position of professor
Door number:
No. 494 (5th floor)
Consultation hours
Wednesday: 9:45 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Thursday: 9:45 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. (also online)
Languages:
English (B2 level)
Russian (B1 level)
German (A2 level)
Curriculum vitae:
In 1997, she graduated from the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Humanities at the University of Prešov (music pedagogy - violin; in 2008, English language and literature)In 2001, she obtained a PhD in the field of 81-23-9 Theory and History of Music in her doctoral studies at the Institute of Musicology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava. In 2013, she defended her scientific and pedagogical title of associate professor in the field of 2.1.6 Aesthetics with a habilitation lecture on the topic Problems of Aesthetics in the Works of Slovak Musicologists, Theorists and Historians of Music in the 20th Century. Since 2007, she has been working at the Institute of Aesthetics and Art Culture at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Prešov. She has extensive artistic and pedagogical experience in art education (Mikuláš Moyzes Elementary Art School, 1997–2009) and in professional performing arts (DJZ Singing Orchestra, 1994–2004). She occasionally performs as a chamber and orchestral musician (violin) in the performing arts and as a music critic.
The profile of Prof. PaedDr. Slávka Kopčáková, PhD. is available on the website of the Music Center in Bratislava. http://hc.sk/o-slovenskej-hudbe/osobnost-detail/4165-kopcakova-slavka
Main areas and topics of scientific research:
Her scientific research focuses on examining the relationships between the history, theory and aesthetics of music, currently on the history of Slovak musical aesthetics (monograph The Development of Musical-Aesthetic Thinking in Slovakia in the 20th Century, 2013; Tobias Gottfried Schröer (1791 – 1850). Aesthetics as a Vision of a Better Human Being, 2021); the older history of regional musical culture, as well as musicological research into more recent Slovak music (monograph Ladislav Burlas, 2002; monograph Ladislav Burlas and Slovak Music Culture, 2017), certain theoretical and methodological problems (monograph A Word About Art Without Words. Musical-Aesthetic and Interdisciplinary Reflections, 2009) and methodological issues of music accessibility and reception (monograph On the Interrelation and Interpretation of Music and Other Artistic Media, 2011).
Subjects taught:
In his current teaching activities, he focuses on theoretical disciplines related to problems and methodology in the history of world and Slovak music, popular music, musical aesthetics, and the interpretation of musical works.
At the bachelor's level:
History of Music (1, 2, 3),
Slovak Music,
Interpretation of Musical Works (1)
At the master's level:
20th Century Music,
Contemporary Slovak Music,
Methodology and Didactics of Aesthetics 1,
Popular Music,
Music Criticism
Doctoral studies:
Theoretical and Methodological Seminar,
Aesthetics,
Methodological Problems of 20th Century Aesthetics,
Current Issues in 20th Century Music Aesthetics
Selected publications:
Slávka Kopčáková is the author of 10 monographs, 2 university textbooks and 2 university teaching texts for students of aesthetics, and more than 100 scientific studies published at home and abroad. She is the author of 10 significant scientific studies registered in the CCC, WoS and Scopus databases.
Publications (selection):
Monographs:
KOPČÁKOVÁ, Slávka – ORIŃÁKOVÁ, Slávka, 2024. Tobias Gottfried Schröer: Úvod do estetickej náuky (1842). Komentovaný preklad estetického kompendia. Prešov: Vyd. PU v Prešove. 180 s. ISBN 978-80-555-3430-5.
KOPČÁKOVÁ, Slávka, 2021. Irena Medňanská a slovenská hudobná pedagogika. Prešov: FF PU. 291 s. ISBN 978-80-555-2726-0.
KOPČÁKOVÁ, Slávka, ed. 2021. Tobias Gottfried Schröer (1791 – 1850). Estetika ako vízia lepšieho človeka. Prešov: FF PU v Prešove. 322 s. ISBN 978-80-555-2767-3.
KOPČÁKOVÁ, Slávka. 2020. Aktuálne otázky hudobnej estetiky 20. a 21. storočia. Prešov : FF PU v Prešove, s. 131 – 222.
KOPČÁKOVÁ, Slávka. 2017. Premeny života a tvorby slovenského hudobníka Ladislava Burlasa. In Ladislav Burlas a slovenská hudobná kultúra. Opera theoriae artis. Prešov : FF PU v Prešove, s. 131 – 222. ISBN 978-80-555-1780-3.
KOPČÁKOVÁ, S. 2013. Vývoj hudobnoestetického myslenia na Slovensku v 20. storočí. Prešov : FF PU, 2013. 303 s. ISBN 978-555-0804-7.
KOPČÁKOVÁ, Slávka. 2011. K súvzťažnosti a interpretácii hudby a iných umeleckých médií. In HUDBA A UMENIA. Vzájomné vzťahy a prieniky v kontexte intermediality a integrácie. Studia Scientiae Artis I. Acta Facultatis Philosphicae Universitatis Prešoviensis. Ed. Slávka Kopčáková. Prešov : Filozofická fakulta PU v Prešove, 2011. ISBN 978-80-555-0379-0, s. 37-89.
KOPČÁKOVÁ, S. 2009. Slovo o umení bez slov. Hudobnoestetické a interdisciplinárne úvahy. Prešov: Súzvuk, 2009. 104 s. ISBN 978-80-89188-22-2
KOPČÁKOVÁ, S. 2002. Ladislav Burlas. Prešov: Prešovský hudobný spolok Súzvuk v edícii vedecké spisy o hudbe zv. 4, 2002. 175 s. ISBN 80-968600-7-0.
University textbooks and teaching texts:
KOPČÁKOVÁ, Slávka – KUŠNÍROVÁ, Eva, 2024. Kapitoly z estetiky múzických umení. Prešov: Vyd. PU v Prešove. ISBN 978-80-5553262-2. 168 s.
KOPČÁKOVÁ, Slávka. 2015. Hudobná estetika a populárna hudba. Vysokoškolská učebnica. Prešov : FF PU v Prešove. ISBN 978-80-5551400-0. 132 s.
KOPČÁKOVÁ, Slávka. 2014. Úvod do štúdia dejín hudby pre študentov estetiky. Prešov: FF PU, 2014, ISBN 978-80-555-1180-1, 75 s. Elektronický dokument. Dostupný na: http://www.pulib.sk/web/kniznica/elpub/dokument/Kopcakova1
KOPČÁKOVÁ, Slávka – DYTRTOVÁ, Kateřina. 2011. Interpretácia hudobného a výtvarného diela. Prešov: FF PU v Prešove, 2011. 197 s. ISBN 978-80-555-0397-4.
Scientific studies registered in global databases:
KOPČÁKOVÁ, Slávka, 2024. Philosophers, Epigones, and Aesthetes. At the Interface of Ideological and Aesthetic Statements on Music Production. In: Slovenské divadlo, 2024, vol. 72, no. 3. pp. 287 – 303. ISSN 1336-8605 (online); ISSN 0037-699X (print). DOI: https://doi.org/10.31577/sd-2024-0022. [Scopus]
KOPČÁKOVÁ, Slávka, 2021. Music Collection of Prešov’s Parish Church of St. Nicolas in the perspective of music classicism canon (on the current research). In: Hudební věda 2021, roč. 58, č. 3, s. 314-334; 446-447. [CCC, WoS]
KOPČÁKOVÁ, S. a ZUBAL, P. 2021. A Drama That Was Not Played in Hungary. Dramatic Works of Pressburg Scholar and Writer Tobias Gottfried Schröer (1791 – 1850). In: Slovenské divadlo, vol. 69, no.3, pp. 322-336. [SCOPUS] DOI: https://doi.org/10.31577/sd-2021-0023
KOPČÁKOVÁ, Slávka. 2020. Tobias Gottfried Schröer and His Compendium of Aesthetics Isagoge in eruditionem aestheticam (1842). In: Kultúrne dejiny / Cultural History, Volume 11, Issue 1, pp. 6-33. [SCOPUS]
KOPČÁKOVÁ, Slávka – PETRÍKOVÁ, Anna. 2020. Role of Wedding Ritual Terms in Formation of Cultural Identity of Rusyns in Eastern Slovakia: Ethnolinguistic and Aesthetic Aspects of Research In: ФИЛОЛОГИЧЕСКИЙ К ЛАСС/ PHILOLOGICAL CLASS. Vol. 25, No2, pp. 68-79. [WoS]
KOPČÁKOVÁ, Slávka. 2019. K umeleckým aktivitám, životu a dielu vojenského kapelníka Leopolda Kohouta v Prešove v rokoch 1883 – 1908. In: Hudebení věda 2019, roč. 56, č. 1, s. 54-77. [CCC, WoS]
KOPČÁKOVÁ, Slávka – PETRÍKOVÁ, Anna. 2018. Analysis of word and music interconnection in Greek Catholics‘ liturgical chanting on interdisciplinary aspect of linguistics and aesthetics. In: X Linguae European Scientific Language Journal, vol. 11, issue 2, April 2018, s. 768-783. ISSN 13378384, eISSN 2453-711X. [SCOPUS]
KOPČÁKOVÁ, Slávka. 2018. Miesto mravnej výchovy v diele Tobiasa Gottfrieda Schröera. In: Studia Historica Nitriensia, 2018, roč. 22, č. 1, s. 174-193. [SCOPUS]
KOPČÁKOVÁ, Slávka. 2018. Reflexia náboženských problémov hornouhorských evanjelikov a miesto náboženskej výchovy v teoretickom odkaze Tobiasa Gottfrieda Schröera. In Historia Ecclesiastica, 2018, roč. IX., č. 1. ISSN 1338-4341, s. 115-129. [SCOPUS]
KOPČÁKOVÁ, Slávka. 2017. Hudobnokritická a umelecká činnosť Dezidera Lauka v čase jeho štúdií na evanjelickom kolégiu v Prešove v rokoch 1891-1894. In Historia Ecclesiastica, 2017, roč. VIII., č. 2. ISSN 1338-4341, s. 76-87. [SCOPUS]
KOPČÁKOVÁ, Slávka. 2012. The Contribution of Music Historiography Research to Searching of National Identity in Slovakia. In Cultural Expressions and European Identities. Eds. Gilles Rouet, R. Gura. Brusel : Bruylant, 2012. ISBN 978-2-8027-3563-2, s. 245-255. [WoS]
Studies published abroad (selection):
KOPČÁKOVÁ, Slávka. 2019. Work of music and contemporary aesthetics - "death of the work" or "death of the author"? In: Proceeding of the 21st International Congress of Aesthetics, Possible Worlds of Contemporary Aesthetics: Aesthetics between History, Geography and Media. Belgrade: University of Belgrade, Faculty of Architecture. ISBN 978-86-7924-224-2, pp. 1253-1262.
KOPČÁKOVÁ, Slávka. 2018. Po stopách hudobnoestetického myslenia na Slovensku v 15. – 17. storočí so zameraním na územie Spišskej a Šarišskej stolice. In: Acta universitatis carolinae, philosophica et historica 1/2018, Studia aesthetica. Eds. Ondřej Dadějík, Slávka Kopčáková, Miloš Ševčík. Praha . Karolinum a Unvierzita Karlova, 2018. ISSN 0567-8293, s. 79-89.
KOPČÁKOVÁ, Slávka. 2018. Aesthetics education and its position in the 21st-century democratic society. In: Ars Inter Culturas. Slupsk : Akademia Pomorska v Slupsku. ISSN 2083-1226, No 1 (7), 2018, s. 249-260.
KOPČÁKOVÁ, Slávka. 2013. Musique et frontières géoartistiques? Esquisse méthodologique basée sur des approches historiographique et esthétique. In Marc Veyrat, (ed). Arts et espaces publics. Local&Global. Paris: L’Harmattan, s. 115-122. ISBN 978-2-343-02379-3. ISSN 2257-3690.
KOPČÁKOVÁ, Slávka. 2012. Genius loci dans la musique d’artistes contemporains locaux, leur réception et leur contexte européen. In Productions et perceptions des créations culturelles. Local & Global. Eds. J. Palková a H. Bálintová. Paris : L´Harmattan, 2012. ISBN 978-2-296-96844-8, s. 107-117.
Published invited lectures
(selection):
KOPČÁKOVÁ, Slávka. 2019. Hudobné dielo – hudobný prejav – hudobná produkcia ako centrálne estetické kategórie v teórii hudobnej pedagogiky. In: Aktuálne trendy teórie a praxe hudobnej edukácie IV.
IV. česko - slovenská doktorandská konferencia. Banská Bystrica : PdF UMB. 978-80-557-1526-1, s. 18-27.
KOPČÁKOVÁ, Slávka. 2017. Hudobná estetika v rámci „Prešovskej estetickej školy“ v kontexte hudobnoestetického myslenia na Slovensku v 21. storočí. In: Slávka Kopčáková a Lukáš Makky (eds.): 25 rokov študijného odboru estetika v Prešove. Studia Aesthetica XVI. Opera theoriae artis. Prešov : FF PU, 2017. ISBN 978-80-555-1799-5, s. 35 – 53.
KOPČÁKOVÁ, Slávka. 2017. Filozoficko-estetické východiská teoretického uvažovania o hudobných aktivitách a hudobnej recepcii. In Aktuálne trendy teórie a praxe hudobnej edukácie. Zborník príspevkov III. česko-poľsko-slovenskej doktorandskej konferencie. Banská Bystrica : PdF UMB, 2016. ISBN 978-80-557-1245-1, s. 72-83.
KOPČÁKOVÁ, Slávka. 2014. Kresánek’s Concept of Musical Thinking – Aesthetical Consequences of the Concept. In Markéta ŠTEFKOVÁ a kol. Konzeptionen des musikalischen Denkens in der europäischen Musikwissenschaft des 20. Jahrhunderts (anlässlich des 100. Geburtsjahres von Jozef Kresánek). Bratislava : Ústav hudobnej vedy SAV. s. 97-107. ISBN 978–80–89454-11-2.
KOPČÁKOVÁ, S. 2012. Hudobná kultúra a formy jej pestovania v Šarišskej župe v 19. storočí. In MAKKY, L. - MIGAŠOVÁ, J. - HAŠKO, Š. (Eds.) Špecifiká kultúrneho a spoločenského vývoja východného Slovenska. Prešov : Filozofická fakulta Prešovskej univerzity v Prešove, 2012. s. 147-161, ISBN 978-80-555-0739-2.
KOPČÁKOVÁ, Slávka. 2011. Hudobnohistorické pramene v Prešove a v strednom Šariši –aktuálny stav bádania. In Ad honorem Richard Rybarič. Zborník z muzikologickej konferencie venovanej nedožitým 80. narodeninám Richarda Rybariča (1930 – 1989). Ed.: Janka Petőczová. Bratislava : Ústav hudobnej vedy SAV, 2011. ISBN 978–80–89135–28–8, s. 124-133.
Grant activities:
Grant management as principal investigator:
2022–2024: VEGA project (No. 1/0065/22) Between the past and present of aesthetics in Slovakia – critical reading and critical editions in the contexts of historical memory and the updating of knowledge
2019 – 2021: VEGA project (No. 1/0051/19) “Music and Dramatic Arts in the Concepts of Aesthetic Theory and Aesthetic Education in Slovakia in the 19th and 20th Centuries”
2015 – 2017: VEGA project (No. 1/0137/15) “Musical-aesthetic thinking in Slovakia. Problems of genesis, development and creation in the 19th and 20th centuries”
2010 – 2011: KEGA project (No. 272-031PU-4/2010) “Multiplication of expression and aesthetic experience based on interdisciplinary connections between contemporary music, visual arts and literature”,
Coordination of international projects:
2013 – 2016: International project of the European Commission – Lifelong Learning Programme – Comenius “European Music Portfolio -Maths” (538547-LLP-1-2013-1-CH-COMENIUS-CMP); Member of the Steering Group and member of the Board of Experts (Committee of Experts).
Membership in research teams:
2023-2027: Member of the research team of the international project COST / The European Cooperation in Science and Technology - CA22149 Research Network for Interdisciplinary Studies of Transhistorical Deliberative Democracy (CHANGECODE)
2022 – 2024: member of the research team of the KEGA project (No. 018PU-4/2022) Innovation in the teaching of humanities with an emphasis on creative and experiential methods
2021 –2024: member of the research team of the VEGA project (No. 2/0012/21), Slovak Academy of Sciences Migration of musicians and transmission of music in the 17th–19th centuries in Slovakia and Central Europe
2017–2020: member of the research team for the VEGA project (No. 2/0050/17) Musical topography of Slovakia in the transformations of the century
2013 - 2015: member of the research team of the VEGA project (No. 1/0278/12) “Noble Libraries in Eastern Slovakia”.
2010 - 2013: member of the research team of the Linguistic and Cultural Studies Centre of Excellence, Faculty of Arts, Prešov University, Operational Program Research and Development, Structural Funds, 7 CR (ITMS 26220120044) “Equipping the Linguistic and Cultural Studies and Interpreting and Translation Centre of Excellence”.
Membership in associations, committees, editorial boards
Membership in professional committees and scientific councils:
Member of the professional council of the doctoral study program Pedagogy – Music Theory and Pedagogy; and the program Education – Musical Theory and Education at the Faculty of Education, Charles University in Prague (since 2018)
Member of the professional committee for the study program 1.1.10 Professional Didactics – Didactics of Music Art at the Faculty of Education, Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica (2015-2020)
Member of the professional committee for the study program 2.1.6 Aesthetics and the study program 2.1.6 Aesthetics at the Faculty of Arts, University of Prešov (2014-2022).
Member of the professional committee and doctoral supervisor for the study program Systematic Philosophy at the Faculty of Arts, University of Prešov. (since 2022).
Member of the Scientific Council of the Center of Excellence in Linguistic, Cultural and Translation Studies (LPTCE) at the Faculty of Arts, University of Prešov (2014-2021).
Membership in editorial boards:
Member of the editorial board of the journal Hudební výchova (Czech Republic), (since 2018)
Member of the editorial board of the journal Kultura, umění a výchova (Czech Republic), (since 2018)
Member of the editorial board of the journal Ars Inter Culturas (Poland), (since 2017)
Member of the editorial board of the journal Slovenská hudba, revue pre hudobnú kultúru (Slovak Music, Journal of Music Culture) (since 2021)
Member of the editorial board of the Opera theoriae artis series (published by the Faculty of Arts), (2016-2023)
Member of the scientific board of the journal ESPES, since 2012.
Member of the editorial board of the journal Jazyk a kultúra (Language and Culture) (online journal of the Centre of Excellence in Linguistic Culture and Translation and Interpreting at the Faculty of Arts, University of Prešov) (since 2014).
Member of the editorial board of the journal Current issues of Art and Art Education (Aktuaľni pitania misteckoi osviti i vichovania), Ukraine, Sumsk.
Member of the scientific committee of the 6th International Conference Edu Didactics 2015 "CONNECTING DIDACTICS, COMPETENCES AND ATTITUDES TOWARDS EDUCATIONAL PRACTICES THROUGH THE ARTS", held on November 20-21, 2015 in Greece (Athens, PIERCE - The American College of Greece).
Memberships in professional associations:
Member of the European Network for the Philosophy of Music (EMPM), (since 2023)
Member of the International Association for Aesthetics, (IAA), (since 2019)
Member of the Slovak Association for Aesthetics (SAE) (since 2016)
Member of the international scientific organization Czech Society for Musicology (since 2015).
Founding member of the Society for Aesthetics in Slovakia (SPENS) (since 2011).
Member of the Prešov music association Súzvuk (since 2002).
International cooperation and mobility:
Research stay: Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Institut für kunst- und musikhistorische Forschunge, Abteilung Musikwissenschaft, Wien (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna). March 1–31, 2017 Platform: ÖAW.
Lecture stay: Faculty of Education, Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic. 8 April 2013 – 12 April 2013. Platform: Erasmus.
Staff Erasmus+ mobility: Institute for Music Education Research, Music Didactics and Elementary Music Making, Vienna; May 6–10, 2019. Platform: Erasmus+
International workshops:
1. Creative workshop “Sounding Ways into Mathematics” Frankfurt am Main, Germany. October 21–25, 2014. Platform: Lifelong Learning Programme, Erasmus + Comenius EMP-M. Position: expert and member of the steering group.
2. Creative workshop “Creative workshop – Teachers Handbook – Collection of Good Practice” Barcelona, Spain. January 26-30, 2015. Platform: LLP COMENIUS EMP-Maths project (2013-2016). Position: expert and member of the steering group.
3. Creative workshop (Creative workshop – Teachers Handbook) and testing workshop (CPD Reflection Test Run Workshop). Barcelona, Spain. October 26, 2015-October 30, 2015. Platform: LLP COMENIUS EMP-Maths project (2013-2016). Position: expert and member of the steering group.
4. Creative and testing workshop (Project Review Workshop). Sibiu, Romania. November 3, 2015-November 6, 2016. Platform: LLP COMENIUS EMP-Maths project (2013-2016). Position: expert and member of the steering group.
Cooperation with foreign universities:
Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Department of Aesthetics, Czech Republic
Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Education, Department of Art Education, Czech Republic.
Masaryk University in Brno, Faculty of Education, Department of Art Education, Czech Republic.
University of Pomerania in Slupsk, Poland.
University of Rzeszów in Rzeszów, Poland.
Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic.
