16 articles in this issue
Pavel Sýkora
In the eighth book of madrigals, Monteverdi introduced a new style which he calls genere concitato. Some of these compositions are inspired by war. In the depiction of fighting, two opposing pinciples collide: agonal combat and agressive conduct of war.
Nejc Sukljan
The article discusses the tuning question as exposed in Vincenzo Galilei's treatise Dialogo della musica antica et della moderna, the author being one of the main 16th century Italian music theorists. His first attempt to determine the musical acoustic sy... see more
Mathew Gardner
Surveys the development of English oratorio from the first public performances of Handel’s Esther (1732) until c. 1740. Handel’s influence over his English contemporaries is discussed referring to style, formal design, subject choice and allegorical conte... see more
Sara Železnik
The article presents the frequency of Ludwig van Beethoven's compositions at the concerts of the Philharmonic Society up to year 1872. The review of performances is complemented by the examination of compositions listed in the Society's catalogues and the... see more
Viktor Velek
To carry out detailed musicological research into the musical life of Slavs in Vienna has been an old obligation of Austrian musicology, and at the same time “a skeleton in the cupboard” of individual Slav musicologies. The paper concentrates on Slovene t... see more
Srdan Atanasovski
By positioning Mokranjac’s garlands from Kosovo and Macedonia into the context of travelogues from “Old Serbia”, I will argue that their political significance lay in purported adherence to folklore material. Analyzing how Mokranjac handled the folk-songs... see more
Tatjana Markovic
Since the nineteenth century the term ‘national opera‘ has been in use with a double meaning: additional by the mentioned political reference to the “peripheral” area (East and Southeast Europe, Scandinavia, the Iberian peninsula, partly Germany), it also... see more
Darja Koter
The article deals with opera directing in Slovenia between the two wars, with the emphasis on opera performances of the National Theatre in Ljubljana. The author introduces a profile of an opera director in relation to theatre directing as well as some im... see more
Kordula Knaus
The article examines romantic comedies and romances whose narrative includes a scene where the protagonists attend an opera performance. An analysis of opera scenes in Moonstruck (1987), Pretty Woman (1990), and Little Women (1994) will answer questions a... see more
Vlado Kotnik
The article is based on a pondered outline of examples of the social reception of opera. Four models of the social reception of opera are exemplified: 1) Mozart, hybridism and divergent culture; 2) Wagner, avantgardism and high culture; 3) Meyerbeer, comm... see more
Katarina Šter
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Alenka Bagaric
Sonja Kralj Bervar
Špela Lah
Ivana Gortan-Carlin
Maruša Zaupancic