{"title":"Vladimir R. Djordjevic’s contribution to the transcription of vocal practices","authors":"Sandra Ranković","doi":"10.2298/MUZ2029051R","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/MUZ2029051R","url":null,"abstract":"Serbian musicians who were collecting different forms of traditional music at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century were unable to make audio recordings of the collected material. This conditioned the need to transcribe folk melodies ?by ear? during the very process of interviewing their interlocutors or later ? from memory. Methodology of transformation of sound into an adequate graphic transcription was especially promoted by Vladimir Djordjevic who, in comparison to his predecessors, introduced numerous novelties. This article discusses his approach to the transcription of vocal practices as applied in two large collections: Serbian Folk Melodies (Southern Serbia) and Serbian Folk Melodies (Pre-war Serbia). The fundaments of his work are observed through the analysis of the manner in which Djordjevic transcribed meta-data, as well as from poetic and music texts.","PeriodicalId":30174,"journal":{"name":"Muzikologija-Musicology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68536672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Central rotation of regular (and irregular) musical poligons","authors":"Dragan Latincic","doi":"10.2298/muz2028205l","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/muz2028205l","url":null,"abstract":"The text describes the application of one of the most important isometric transformations to the projected metro-rhythmic entities of individual harmonics of the spectrum. It is a direct isometry called central rotation. Central rotation conditions the hemiola structuring of the meter. Hemiolas are identified with regular and irregular geometric figures (primarily triangles) by means of a partition and the composition (index) number of a particular spectral harmonics. The partition and composition of numbers, which are dealt with in discrete mathematics, on the one hand, and, the technique of horizontal hemiolas, characteristic of the polyphony of the sub-Saharan region, on the other, served as a means of creating methods by which the isometric transformation of central rotation would be realized in (musical) time.","PeriodicalId":30174,"journal":{"name":"Muzikologija-Musicology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68536871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ancient Greek rhythms in Messiaen’s le sacre: Nietzsche’s legacy?","authors":"Wai-Ling Cheong","doi":"10.2298/muz1927097c","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/muz1927097c","url":null,"abstract":"It is little known that Nietzsche - appointed professor of classical\u0000 philology at Basel University in his twenties - had postulated on the basis\u0000 of rigorous textual studies that the leading classical philologists active\u0000 in Central Europe in the nineteenth century, predominantly German-speaking,\u0000 had gone seriously off -track by fitting Greek rhythms into measures of\u0000 equal length. Unlike the philologists, influential musicologists who wrote\u0000 about ancient Greek rhythms were mostly French. The Paris Conservatoire was\u0000 a powerhouse of rhythmic theory, with an impressive lineage from F?tis and\u0000 Gevaert through Laloy and Emmanuel to Messiaen and beyond. F?tis and Gevaert\u0000 referenced their contemporary German philologists without really critiquing\u0000 them. With Laloy, Emmanuel, and Messiaen, however, there was a notable\u0000 change of orientation. These authors all read as if they had somehow become\u0000 aware of Nietzsche?s discovery. Yet none of them make any mention of him\u0000 whatsoever. In this study, a comparative analysis of their musical rendition\u0000 of Greek rhythms is undertaken before focusing on Messiaen?s analytical\u0000 proposal that there is an impressively long series of Greek rhythms in\u0000 Stravinsky?s Le sacre du printemps. I seek to throw light on the resurgence\u0000 of interest in ancient Greek rhythms in modernist musical works, and\u0000 question how the convoluted reception of Nietzsche?s discovery in Parisian\u0000 music circles might have sparked rhythmic innovation to new heights.","PeriodicalId":30174,"journal":{"name":"Muzikologija-Musicology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44190326","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ontological hermeneutics as a catalyst of musicological discourse: A few sketches","authors":"Igor Radeta","doi":"10.2298/MUZ1926183R","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/MUZ1926183R","url":null,"abstract":"From the invention of language, the phenomenon of Greek herm?neia to biblical exegesis, interpretation is one of the crucial paradigms of culture and civilization. Joined with general ontology, hermeneutics offers original and intuitive theoretical insights. In this paper the author proposes and examines several possibilities of productive influence of ontological hermeneutics on musicological discourse. Starting with the dilemma concerning the relationship on the axis text-being, the first answers have been found in different definitions of discourse. A more elaborate debate continues in the field of ontology, from Aristotle to metaontology. Finally, cross-references that intersect types of hermeneutics/ontology and musical phenomena are offered.","PeriodicalId":30174,"journal":{"name":"Muzikologija-Musicology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68535793","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The transmission of motets within the Paston manuscripts, c.1610","authors":"F. Knights","doi":"10.2298/muz1927137k","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/muz1927137k","url":null,"abstract":"The creation and expansion of commercial music printing from around 1500 has normally led to modern editors assigning textual primacy to published copies of music from the period in preference to any equivalent manuscript copies. However, some groups of manuscript sources, such as the Paston collection, from late 16th and early 17th century England, can shed a different light on contemporary music print culture and its relationship to manuscript copying. Edward Paston?s huge private music library, now dispersed in collections in the UK and US, contains many multiple versions of works he already access to in print form, and the choices he or his copyists made with regard to three particular six-voice Latin motets, Byrd?s Memento homo, Ferrabosco?s In monte Oliveti, and Vaet?s Salve Regina, are examined here, and placed within with their collecting context and likely use.","PeriodicalId":30174,"journal":{"name":"Muzikologija-Musicology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68535712","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Music Hall: Regulations and behaviour in a British cultural institution","authors":"B. Scott","doi":"10.2298/MUZ1926061S","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/MUZ1926061S","url":null,"abstract":"The music hall in late nineteenth-century Britain offers an example of a cultural institution in which legal measures, in-house regulations, and unscripted codes of behaviour all come into play. At times, the performers or audience were under coercion to act in a certain way, but at other times constraints on behaviour were more indirect, because the music hall created common understanding of what was acceptable or respectable. There is, however, a further complication to consider: sometimes insider notions of what is normative or appropriate come into conflict with outsider concerns about music-hall behaviour. These various pressures are examined in the context of rowdiness, drunkenness, obscenity, and prostitution, and conflicts that result when internal institutional notions of what is normative or appropriate come into conflict with external social anxieties.","PeriodicalId":30174,"journal":{"name":"Muzikologija-Musicology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68535018","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Baltic musicological conferences: National music historiographies and transnationalism","authors":"Rūta Stanevičiūtė","doi":"10.2298/muz1926075s","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/muz1926075s","url":null,"abstract":"The article explores the Baltic musicological conferences as a non-hierarchical network and its role and meaning in the changing political and cultural contexts. Starting from 1967, when the first conference took place, the annual meetings of the Baltic musicologists soon became a transnational space for the professional exchange and crosscultural discussion. Based on the results and the impact of cooperation between musicologists of neighbouring countries, the Soviet formation of the national history writing and the development of the Baltic musicological comparativism is discussed, given the political and cultural factors of these changes. The theoretical foundations and cultural aspirations of the concept of national music historiography by Vytautas Landsbergis is highlighted as representative example of the national self-confidence in Lithuanian musicology during the Soviet period.","PeriodicalId":30174,"journal":{"name":"Muzikologija-Musicology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68535050","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Phenomenon of the Baltic singing revolution in 1987-1991: Three Latvian songs as historical symbols of non-violent resistance","authors":"Janis Kudins","doi":"10.2298/MUZ1926027K","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/MUZ1926027K","url":null,"abstract":"The denomination singing revolution (coined by Estonian artist Heinz Valk, b. 1936) is commonly used for events in Baltic States between 1987 and 1991 that led to the restoration of the independence of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Three songs - the folk song P?t, v?ji?i! (Blow, Wind!), the choir song Gaismas pils (The Castle of Light) by the national classical composer J?zeps V?tols (1863-1948) and the song Saule, P?rkons, Daugava (Sun, Thunder, Daugava) by the composer M?rti?s Brauns (1951) - at that time in Latvia had a special significance in society. Each song represented references to different layers in Latvian cultural and political history. The characteristics of the three songs in the Singing Revolution process are based on the approach and methodology of distant (objective) analysis of cultural context and recent historical experience. As a result, this article reveals the meaning and reception of the three songs as symbols of nonviolent resistance during the fall of communist regime in Latvia in the late 1980s.","PeriodicalId":30174,"journal":{"name":"Muzikologija-Musicology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68535349","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Balzan Musicology Project towards a global history of music, the study of global modernisation, and open questions for the future","authors":"R. Strohm","doi":"10.2298/muz1927015s","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/muz1927015s","url":null,"abstract":"The contribution outlines the Balzan Musicology Project (2013-2017) and the published papers arising from its 14 international workshops on global music history. The approach of the project is described as post-eurocentric, uniting music history and ethnomusicology. 29 of the papers address processes of music and modernisation in many countries, pinpointing not only ?Westernisation? but also transculturalism and transnational media. Open questions for a future musicology concern the history concept itself, and the fair distribution of resources and sharing opportunities to all those concerned.","PeriodicalId":30174,"journal":{"name":"Muzikologija-Musicology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68535841","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Engagement in musical criticism: Pavle Stefanovic’s texts in The Music Herald (1938-1940)","authors":"A. Vasić","doi":"10.2298/muz1927203v","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/muz1927203v","url":null,"abstract":"Pavle Stefanovic (1901-1985) is one of the most prominent Serbian music critics and essayists. He created extensive musicographic work, largely scattered in periodicals. A philosopher by education, he had an excellent knowledge of music and its history. His style was marked by eloquence, associativity and plasticity of expression. Between 1938 and 1940 he published eighteen music reviews in The Music Herald, the longest-running Belgrade music magazine in the interwar period (1928-1941, with interruption from 1934 to 1938). Stefanovic wrote about concerts, opera and ballet performances in Belgrade, performances by local and eminent foreign artists. His reviews include Magda Tagliaferro, Nathan Milstein, Jacques Thibaud, Enrico Mainardi, Bronis?aw Huberman, Alexander Uninsky, Alexaner Borovsky, Ignaz Friedman, Nikita Magaloff and many other eminent musicians. Th is study is devoted to the analysis of the Stefanovic?s procedure. Pavle Stefanovic was an anti-fascist and left ist. He believed that the task of a music critic was not merely to analyze and evaluate musical works and musical interpretations. He argued that the critic should engage in important social issues that concerned music and music life. That is why he wrote articles on the occasion of German artists visiting Belgrade, about the persecution of musicians of Jewish descent and the cultural situation in the Third Reich. On the other hand, Stefanovic was an aesthetic hedonist who expressed a great sense of the beauty of musical works. Th at duality - a socially engaged intellectual and a subtle ?enjoyer? of the art - remained undisturbed. In these articles he did not go into a deterministic interpretation of the structure of musical composition and the history of music. And he did not accept the larpurlartistic views.","PeriodicalId":30174,"journal":{"name":"Muzikologija-Musicology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68535924","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}