7 articles in this issue
Valentin Kalan
Aristotle's approach to music is articulated in three different ways: harmonics, psychology of music and its place in the system of education – sociology of music and musical catharsis. In this article, we will treat his understanding of music in the Meta... see more
Stanley Boorman
Ottaviano Petrucci published his first book of music, the Odhecaton A, sometime in the summer of 1501, 500 years ago. Since it was the first, Petrucci faced a number of special problems. Some were financial, for he could not know how many people would buy... see more
Radovan Škrjanc
The purpose of the article is to jointly introduce the contents and the writings of four recently discovered documents, which speak of the origin and the activities of Saint Cecilia's Academic Society in Kamnik (Confoederation Accademicae sub invocatione ... see more
Gregor Pompe
The end of the Second World War can be understood as an important aesthetic dividing point in the history of modern music. The unstable spiritual climate, imbued with dreadful recollections of the just finished war, pervaded with the fear of a vague futur... see more
Jean-Marc Chouvel
Iannis Xenakis et la musique française, une filiation incomprise?
Niall O'Loughlin
The large-scale romantic concerto has been reevaluated by many composers of the 20th century. These have included Stravinsky, Honegger and Frank Martin, who have all tended to compose on a much smaller scale. One such work is Ivo Petric's Trois images, a ... see more
Leon Stefanija
The proclamation of postmodernity as a kind of »regulative idea« of contemporary culture has – along with the belief about the »Unübersichtlichkeit« of artistic volition – enthroned the notion that contemporary composers are compelled to modify the past c... see more