Musicological Annual  

Dragotin Cvetko

In their past the Southern Slavonic peoples have gone through certain phases of development, all of which have a very different character. For their music the contacts with Western Europe and with Byzantium were of particular importance and with christian... see more

Dimitrije Stefanovic

The beginnings of the Orthodox Slavonic Musical culture date from the time of the conversion of the Slavonic peoples to Christianity in the ninth century. The Apostles of the Slavs, the brothers SS. Cyril and Methodius from Thessaloniki, and their pupils,... see more

Bojan Bujic

The Canonici collection of manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford contains a number of MSS of Dalmatian provenance of which two (Canonici Bib. lat., MS 61 and Canonici Liturg., MS 277) are of particular importance for the early history of liturgical ... see more

Cvjetko Rihtman

O poreklu staroslovanskega obrednega petja na otoku Krku

Werner Braun

Almost the only work from the large library of the church of St. Wenceslas in Naumburg still extant is a copy of the Auferstehungshistorie of Antonio Scandello. The manuscript, dated 1595, contains both monophonie and polyphonic solo roles; at the end the... see more

Adam Gottron

In the article the author contributes some data to help elucidate some details in the life and the work of the composer, Gabriel Plautz, the chapelmaster at the court of the Electoral Prince in Mainz. In this connection it is of special interest that his ... see more

Jože Sivec

Since the economic situation of the Ljubljana Theatre after the reorganisation of its administration in 1819 instead of improving had been continually-deteriorating, the Theatre Board tried to obtain assistance from public funds. Unfortunately its request... see more

Josip Andreis

In the introduction of his article the author draws our attention to the significance of piano music in Romanticism and to the time of the appearance of the piano nocturne, a form which is, owing to its pure melodic and elegiac qualities, extraordinarily ... see more

Marija Koren

Serbian chant as well as secular folk-music, for its comparative value and for its own value, had continually attracted the attention of Russian travel writers and musicians since the 15th century, the time when the Serbian chant was through the metropoli... see more

Miloš Štedron

A brief consideration of Janácek's connections with the modernist trends in the music of the twenties involves an exact analysis of his later work. In the work of this composer who was born in the fifties of the last century we find a number of the fundam... see more

Borut Loparnik

Marij Kogoj, the most famous Slovene expressionist composer, occupied himself throughout his life, although he had his own well defined outlook in music, with the problem of Slovene folk-songs. Considered from a scientific point of view, his ideas are an ... see more

Katarina Bedina

Slavko Osterc entered into the centre of Slovene musical life as a revolutionary, as a champion of modern, world art trends and as the leading personality in the struggle for the introduction of contemporary principles of composition into the music of our... see more

Andrej Rijavec

Though Slavko Osterc (1895–1941) is one of the most important Slovene composers of the 20th century and among the most eminent modernists in the period between the two wars, the appreciation of his work has been based too much on the recollections of his ... see more

Vinko Globokar

In the period approximately between 1950 and 1960 as a result of exagerated dogmatization of Webern's principles and of too abstract views, contemporary European music found itself enveloped in a crisis. Some composers endeavoured to escape from this by c... see more

Zmaga Kumer

In the introduction, the author emphasises the fact that folk and literary poetry represent two artistic qualities, each of which is important in its own way, and have their characteristic style and different origins. Just as a folk poet cannot succeed in... see more

Koraljka Kos

Musical Instruments in the Medieval Art in Croatia