17 articles in this issue
Jurij Snoj
In his Lectures on Fine Art, in the chapter devoted to music, Hegel dealt with the question of musical content. According to him, music may express various human affections, yet this is not its essential purpose. More important is that in music the indivi... see more
Helmut Loos
Although we attribute to Hölderlin poetry very substantial musical qualities it is a fact that he wasn’t a reference poet for the Romantic Lied. Already his contemporary composers such as Ludwig van Beethoven didn’t consider him to be significant. An exce... see more
Polona Miklavc
Johann Pachelbel wrote an extensive oeuvre of organ chorale preludes, the study of which opens historiographical as well as compositional and aesthetic questions. The article tries to present and compare the findings of various scholars about these questi... see more
Metoda Kokole
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... see more
Radovan Škrjanc
The article presents the contents of the theoretical and practical part of the Fundamenta textbook, preserved in the Francisian Monastery in Novo mesto, as well as problems of its historical interpretation here and now. Apart from the problem of relativen... see more
Katarina Šter
Pokrajinski arhiv Koper keeps 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. Its contents and terminology show connections with simila... see more
Lidija Podlesnik Tomášiková
The profession of dancing masters substantially influenced the formation of European dancing culture from the 15th century onwards. The Carniolan Provincial Estates provided for the post of dancing master probably for a number of centuries. The present ar... see more
Sara Železnik
The article tries to create a picture of concert seasons of the Philharmonic Society in Ljubljana in accordance with the remaining concert programmes between the years 1794 and 1872. Individual studies have established the undisputable importance of the S... see more
Vlasta Reitterterová
Alois Hába is usually characterised as one of the leading protagonists of the Central European inter-war avant-garde. He is primarily known as a tireless propagator of microtonal and athematic music, for which his own term was “liberated music”.
Niall O'Loughlin
Since Ivo Petric’s return to conventional measured notation in the 1980s, he has composed numerous new concertos. In four such works for solo instrument and orchestra, formal plans and instrumental techniques have remained similar even with the change of ... see more
Larisa Vrhunc
Urška Pompe’s work is a blend of diverse musical experiences, electroacoustic music not being one of them. Despite that, her music shows rather obvious influences of electro acoustics and can serve as a point of departure for consideration of the ways in ... see more
Nina Gala Kušej
Aci Bertoncelj was born on August 27, 1939, in Domžale, Slovenia. He took a degree in piano from the Academy of Music of Ljubljana and studied also abroad. For his cultural achievements he received many awards. He won recognition as a solo, chamber and or... see more
Ivan Moody
This paper discusses the question of “moderate” or “moderated” modernism in relation to 20th-century Serbian Church music, concluding that its influence in dialogue regarding with Orthodox spirituality and concerns with liturgical art was not only positiv... see more
Melita Milin
The focus of the article is on Serbian composers’ responses to the turbulent political developements and wars during the last decade of the 20th century in ex-Yugoslavia. Both their creative work and political activism are considered. There was a general ... see more
Jelena Grazio
The following paper deals with music terminology, its aim being to present the first Croatian-Slovene glossaries of terms in the fields of harmony and counterpoint. The author stresses the importance of terminology for musicology, portrays the existing co... see more
Simone Heilgendorff
In Berlin (Germany) there has been an exceptional project of a house for contemporary music and new music theatre (COB/ZOB) offering a variety of solutions for an urban not yet settled vibrant cultural “zone”, where artistic activity and everyday life mee... see more
Janja Crcinovic Rozman
Music and visual artworks can contain same elements and principles of design. These elements influence the personal appreciation of artworks. The results of empirical investigation into the experiences and reactions of Slovene and Finnish students of elem... see more