Musicological Annual  

Cvjetko Rihtman

There can be no doubt that the emergence of the Bogumils during the 12th century gave rise not only to a ferment in the life of the Serbian Church but also to changes in the organization and in liturgical forms and in this connection an inevitable deviati... see more

Janez Höfler

The fragment in question, from the archiepiscopal archives in Ljubljana, is from the latter half of the fourteenth century and consists of two parts, a tonarium in square notation, which points to Italian models, and a number of musical examples dealing w... see more

Bojan Bujic

Tomaso Cecchini (cca. 1580–1644) who was a native of Verona, spent the greatest part of his life as organist of the Cathedral churches in Split and Hvar. The only surviving copy of his third book of monodies »Amorosi concetti« is now in the library of Chr... see more

Primož Kuret

Among the numerous provincial trumpeters of Styria in Graz one of the most interesting from the point of view of Slovene musical history is Jakob Globocnik, about whom much information is to be found in the Styrian provincial archives in Graz. Jakob Globo... see more

Andrej Rijavec

The term »town musicians« is here used to cover the so-called town pipers (Stadtpfeifer, Stadtturner) as well as the town fiddlers (Stadtgeiger), as distinct from the provincial musicians, known as provincial trumpeters (Landschaftliche Trompeter). The to... see more

Jože Sivec

Whereas Donizetti's operas are already found in the repertoire of theatres here and there outside Italy towards the end of the 1820's and more and more often after the triumphant success of »Anna Bolena« in 1830, the first perfomance of Donizetti in Ljubl... see more

Marijan Lipovšek

Because of the scarcity of archival material there survives no direct evidence of such music having been written in Slovenia until the 18tn century, though it is highly probable that organists and harpsichordists, of whose work we know indirectly, wrote k... see more

Borut Loparnik

Marij Kogoj dedicated the greater part of his artistic powers to opera. Of his three plans for operatic themes (the first being France Prešeren's poem »Krst pri Savici«, the second Leonid Andrejev's drama »Black Masks«, the third Shakespeare's »Twelfth Ni... see more

Stana Djuric-Klajn

The political and economic conditions, or rather the centuries-long occupation under which the Serbs lived until the first quarter of the 19tn century, did not allow musical culture to develop freely and independently. Hence the first appearances of music... see more

Halsey Stevens

Free borrowing and use of transformed elements of the music of past periods when forming contemporary music enables musical art, while incorporating the new, to maintain the continuity of its development; otherwise music risks losing contact with the worl... see more

Ivo Supicic

There are many obstacles to the complete acceptance of the sociology of music as an independent academic discipline within contemporary musicology. One such 121 obstacle is to be found in the remnants of the Romantic outlook which is on the whole opposed ... see more

Zmaga Kumer

The subject is a song composed by the organist and teacher Matevž Kracman at Šmarje near Ljubljana and sung by him in church during the requiem for the anniversary of the death of his son and daughter. There is a short account of Kracman and of the circum... see more