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 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, it reflects upon certain sociological and ideological aspects of the functionality of such thinking.
COBISS.SI-ID: 32804653
In Slovenian 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