In Slovenian music and other libraries and archives 25 titles of printed works on music dating from around 1650 to 1800 as well as five manuscript manuals and numerous manuscript fragments of music theory or exercises were found during a still current project. The prints were classified in three broad groups: speculative theoretical literature and general encyclopaedic works on various aspects of music; various kinds of textbooks on music, manuals on counterpoint and guides to compositional technique and performance; and finally practical manuals, comprising plainchant manuals and methods of singing or instruction on different instruments, especially keyboard, violin and flute.
COBISS.SI-ID: 32804397
The article discusses an unfinished Italian manuscript compendium on the basic elements of music theory and plainchant singing from the end of the 18th or the beginning of the 19th century which is kept in the Pokrajinski arhiv Koper. Its contents and terminology show connections with similar treatises of the Northern Italy of the period. It was also possible to define one of its sources. On the other hand, many corrections and additions in the handwritten text also show their author's authentic understanding of music, and his pedagogical orientation towards practice. The manuscript is a witness of the musical pedagogical activities in the 18th century in the area of the Coast towns of today's Slovenia. These were connected with the Italian models. The Coastal area of today’s Slovenia has not yet been thoroughly researched from the point of view of its music pedagogy, so the research presented in this article completes and enriches the picture of its musical life.
COBISS.SI-ID: 32804909
Through three different analyses of the Fundamenta textbook, the article on the one hand focuses on the problem of relativeness when dealing historically with the musical past and its archived remnants (i.e. with their historical place, importance, role, sense etc.), which appears to be one of the basic tasks of musicology in its field of scholarly research, and on the other hand, it reflects upon certain sociological and ideological aspects of the functionality of such thinking.
COBISS.SI-ID: 32804653
The online publication in a form of an e-book contains apart from the facsimile and a critical transcription of the source titled Noten-Buch darinnen die Fundamenta zu dem Clavier oder Orgel enthalten also a commented translation into Slovenian as well as five complementary analytical chapters on the manual and its contextualisation. The first chapter deals with the place of this manual for the beginners on keyboard instruments within the general development of keyboard didactic in the 18th century; the following offers a survey of all 18th-century music manuals found in Slovenian archives and libraries (this chapter is a contribution by M. Kokole); the third is a study on possible authorship, dating and location where this manual could have been written; in the fourth chapter the author analyses theoretical parameters and pedagogical aspects of this manual in comparison with other such 18th-century sources; and the final chapter is dedicated to compositional aspects of music in the second part of the original manual and compares the pieces with keyboard compositions from other parts of Europe.
COBISS.SI-ID: 266025728
»Compendium cantus choralis«, an internet edition of the introduction to plainchant from the Franciscan monastery Novo mesto, makes full use of the possibilities of modern digital techonlogies. The contents of the text is available through five different levels: as a facsimile reproduction of the original booklet, as a diplomatic transliteration, as a critical edition of the Latin text, in the form of the translation into Slovene, and via commentary explanations (in the accompanying study). The digital links among the five levels enable a critical and open acces to the contents of the original.
COBISS.SI-ID: 266025472