Projects / Programmes
Musical sources of the 16th to the 18th centuries with special attention to the archives in the Slovenian region of Primorska
| Code |
Science |
Field |
Subfield |
| 6.08.00 |
Humanities |
Musicology |
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| Code |
Science |
Field |
| H320 |
Humanities |
Musicology |
musicology,music on the Slovenian territory; musical archives of the region of Primorska; music manuscripts and prints; documentation and analysis of music repertoire; music data-base; the Central-European musical archives; preparation of music scores for public performances
Researchers (5)
Organisations (1)
Abstract
Comparative musical analysis of the sources preserved in all locations is a fundamental condition for a clear and comprehensive idea of musical and cultural life on the territory of today's Republic of Slovenia. The preserved repertoire from the 16th to the 19th centuries is - in addition to the secondary sources (inventories and other archival records) and documented compositional output of Slovenian composers - the basis sine qua non for a research into the history of musical culture of the past centuries in Slovenia. Music prints and manuscripts that survived in the towns of the Slovenian coastal region, especially Koper, Piran and Izola, were up to the present time only partially and synoptically recorded. Even the repertoire (within the church institutions and of secular character) that could possibly be deduced from the already known facts has never been studied systematically and comparatively. To comprehend fully the circulation of music from Italy towards the east and the north in the period in question it is in the first place necessary to clarify the role of the coastal towns and their musical institutions, supplied with music literature directly from Italy. For the global view of the Slovenian musical heritage are of foremost importance also central-European sources, that include compositions of Slovenian or with Slovenian territory connected authors (i.e. Daniel Lagkhner, Giacomo Gorzanis, Gabriel Plautzius, Isaac Posch, Johannes Baptista Dolar etc.). The dissemination of music by the above mentioned composers in the archives throughout the Central Europe has been up to the present studied with variable intensity. The results of a systematic research into this subject would undoubtedly clarify the role of these composers within the European framework. The purpose of the project is apart of recording and analysing the historical repertoire of the coastal archives also the application of the results of the study in the form of a creation of an electronic music data-base for general use and the preparation of a selection of a number of representative pieces of the foremost quality in a form accessible to today's musicians (in modern notation with critical comments and suggestions for performing). The materials will be used for public performances of the music "from the forgotten archives of Slovenia" in the organisation of the Institute of Musicology, Scientific research Centre and the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. The proposed work with the musical data from the archives of the region of Primorska could in future serve as a model of musicological research into the repertoire of other Slovenian archival collections.
