16 articles in this issue
Jernej Weiss
In Celebration
Dalibor Davidovic
Taking the conversation between John Cage and Geoffrey Barnard – published as Conversation without Feldman – as a starting point, the following article explores Cage’s notion of anarchy.
Marko Motnik
Lenart Mravlja, also named Leonhard Formica, is one of the numerous personalities from Carniola who worked abroad in the sixteenth century. After being educated in Ljubljana and in several protestant German towns, Formica moved to Vienna at the end of the... see more
Thomas Hochradner
The notation from memory of Gregorio Allegri’s Misererewas made by Wolfgang Amadé Mozart during his stay in Rome in 1770. The notation – about which the family correspondence reports – was transformed from an occurrence to an anecdote in literature about ... see more
Helmut Loos
The bourgeois/middle-class Modernity chose music for its art-as-religion and made Beethoven the key figure of its ideals. As a consequence, the “romantic image of Beethoven” (Arnold Schmitz) idealizes the composer as being freed of all earthly restrains. ... see more
Michael Walter
It is very likely that Verdi rehearsed the vocal parts of his first opera Oberto (1839) as maestro concertatore. However, he had no influence on the first performance, since the performances were led by the first violinist or direttore d’orchestra. In the... see more
Nico Schüler
This paper describes the reconstruction of life and work of African-American composer Jacob J. Sawyer (1856–1885) with the help of genealogy databases and online collections of music scores. During his life, Sawyer held positions with well-known music ens... see more
John Tyrrell
The article examines Leoš Janácek’s knowledge of the music of four Russian composers (Rubinstein, Tchaikovsky, Musorgsky and Rebikov) may have influenced him and assesses the basis and extent of any discernible influence.
Lubomír Spurný
In the course of the 1920s and 30s Pavel Haas (1899–1944) earned a reputation for himself in broader cultural consciousness as an original composer and Janácek’s “most talented student”. In the specifi... see more
Niall O’Loughlin
Characterization in the four operas of Krzystof Penderecki is well developed. It includes specified melodic intervals for characters, distorted vocal lines, the use of coloratura singing and various forms of chanting and speaking.
Tatjana Markovic
The paper considers a multi-levelled process of construction and reconstruction of Montenegrin cultural memory through the medieval national history revived in the 19th century theatre play... see more
Melita Milin
In the decades after the end of WW2 and the establishment of the communist regime in Yugoslavia, cultural isolation affected Serbia in more or less the same way as the other five federal republics. This article examines aspects typical of that period, suc... see more
Bruno Nettl
This is an attempt to sketch some of the principal discoveries or contributions of the field of ethnomusicology since 1885. These include consideration of the world of music as comprised of musics, the origin of music, universals, the study of music in cu... see more
Jeff Todd Titon
This essay defines ethnomusicology as the study of people making music. People make sounds that are recognized as music, and people also make “music” into a cultural domain. The essay contrasts this idea of music as a contingent cultural category with ear... see more
Engelbert Logar
The article examines the Slavic share of sheet music for brass instruments in the archive of the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, located in the research station in Oberschützen in the Austrain state of Burgenland. The archive material is com... see more
Jasmina Talam
Singing to accompaniment of the gusle is a very important form of vocal-instrumental performance in the musical tradition of Bosnia and Herzegovina. This paper will present historic sources and research on singing to gusle accompaniment, and the methods b... see more