Man, curious about the world, learns about the surrounding reality in various ways. In exploring knowledge of reality, he uses his senses and intellect. For centuries, it was believed that all data that the intellect possesses is delivered to him through the senses. It is obvious that we receive most news from the world around us through the sense of sight and hearing. However, this does not change the fact that the other senses, that is, smell, touch and taste, play a significant role in our everyday lives and in exploring the reality around us. Following this thinking and focusing on the sense of smell, it can be concluded that we can try to learn about the world by smelling it. In the following article I describe the role of fragrances in the poetry of Propercius. For the sake of maintaining a certain methodological order, at the beginning I introduce the figure of a Roman poet. Then, I briefly comment the translation into Polish, which is my direct source for work. Next, I point to individual examples of the functioning of the fragrance category in the work of the said author. After analyzing the mentioned fragments, I allow myself to make a certain synthesis and draw conclusions.
In 27 of his concertos Tartini used 39 poetical mottos taken mostly from opera or cantata librettos. Up to now there have been discovered text concordances for 20 mottos, but not all of them can be established with one-hundred percent certainty. This article adds 16 new concordances, discusses probable functions of the mottos and the nature of the sources from which the composer drew them, as well as the varying degrees of certainty regarding these convergences. The author formulate a hypothesis, that the source of Tartini’s literary quotations could be some anthology of arias from operas and cantatas in his possession. Apart from poetic quotations the article compares also the musical layer of some parts of Tartini’s concertos which carry incipits of arias by various authors with the originals, finding examples of subtle similarities. The author postulate to undertake in the future a detailed and wide-ranging research into musical quotations in Tartini’s concertos.
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