20 articles in this issue
prijatelji, kolegi in študenti
A Note from the Editors - Essays in Honour of Andrej Rijavec
Bojan Bujic
Philosophical discussion of music based on the principle that music is a form of language, encounters difficulties. Some aspects of music do tend towards language-like structures, while others pull away from them. If only the language model is upheld, the... see more
Arnold Feil
The article tries to clarify the dilemmas which arise when writing a history of music. The author raises the question abut the facts of music history and their interpretation, he tries to determine the object of history of music, introduces the important ... see more
Leon Stefanija
The essay offers a survey of research into musical effects. The text is centred in the question regarding the epistemological range in the research into music's effects. They are discussed through the context of studies on music' functions and music prefe... see more
Werner Jauk
An interface may be considered being a (social) situation where information is transferred effecting and affecting both, the communicator and the recipient. There is evidence, that musical performance could be argued to be a paradigm of this situation. As... see more
Jurij Snoj
The numerous musical scenes in Iliad are approached from three different aspects: (i) to a limited extent they allow the technical description of the music played or sung; (ii) they are discussed from the viewpoint of the music's social function; (iii) th... see more
Metoda Kokole
The dedication of Filippo de Duc’s madrigal collection of 1586 contains a number of names of Carniolan and Styrian nobles. The collection is dedicated to Giovanni Giacomo and Carlo Khisl, but De Duc’s dedicatory text praises also their father Hans and two... see more
Aleš Nagode
Author observes the nobility of the Slovene part of Austrian lands and its role in the life of W. A. Mozart. He stresses the importance of the few key aristocratic benefactors in Mozart’s rise to the European fame.
Katarina Bogunovic Hocevar
Schumann's music – especially the music composed until approximately 1840 – is today regarded as a paradigm of romantic instrumental music. The composer’s enthusiasm for the romantic literature of his time did not remain simply on the level of reception a... see more
Manica Špendal
The musicological debate can not agree about the date of the births of the reading societies in Slovenia. This holds true especially for the foundation of reading societies in Maribor and Ljubljana. Some musicologist are convinced that the birth of Nation... see more
Darja Frelih
Viktor Parma's operetta The Amazons of Tzarina had the largest number of performances of all of the composer's musical stage works. Most significant were the first performance in 1903 and its restaging in 1937. The concert performance with a new libretto ... see more
Špela Lah
German journalist of Czech origin, Julius Ohm-Januschowsky, was one of more important personalities in music journalism of the last quarter of 19th century in Ljubljana. His main work was to report and evaluate music-theatrical performances. His contribut... see more
Koraljka Kos
Croatian composer Dora Pejacevic (1885-1923) wrote 1915 an occasional composition Verwandlung for alto, violin and organ or piano on verses by Karl Kraus for the wedding of her friend Sidonija Nádherný von Borutin which eventually didn't take place. Kraus... see more
Niall O'Loughlin
Many countries in the 19th century wanted to assert their national character, with music being one way of doing so. We can distinguish four ways in which in music national identity can be established: composers may use the folk music, they can base their ... see more
Karmen Salmic
This analytical article on music deals with the variation of melodic and harmonic tone structures and their reciprocal effects in eight orchestral pieces by Demetrij Žebre – a student of Slavko Osterc and one of the moderately modernistic creative authors... see more
Gregor Pompe
In the present article written records of composer Lojze Lebic are analysed, revealing the composer's explicit poetics. The latter is stretched between numerous tension dyads that create the formative essence of composer's music. By connecting the ethical... see more
Matjaž Barbo
Music is held to be the most significant medium of the globalising world. With its apparent non-conceptual nature and cultural indeterminacy, it represents a model of a non-divisive language. The new musical hermeneutics, however, seeks a broader contextu... see more
Nico Schüler
Clanek ponuja primere, kako vkljucevanje glasbe nezahodnih kultur prispeva pri študiju v mejah “strnjenega” ucnega nacrta, v katerem so razlicne glasbene discipline mocno povezane druga z drugo: na primer teorija, zgodovina, izvajalska praksa, pedagogika ... see more
Alenka Barber-Keršovan
In this article a short historical sketch of the visualisation of music is offered, which led in the 1980ies to the establishing of the video clip as an independent aesthetic form and the music television (MTV) as a specialized medium for this musical gen... see more
Zoran Krstulovic
Bibliography of Andrej Rijavec