POLYFONNÍ FRAGMENTY Z KREMNICE A JEJICH VÝZNAM PRO HUDEBNÍ KULTURU STŘEDNÍ EVROPY V 16. STOLETÍ

• Authors: Studeničová Hana

Title variants

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Polyphonic fragments from Kremnica and their significance for sixteenth-century musical culture in Central Europe

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

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It is usually the quantity of extant sources that determines how detailed information we can gain about the musical culture of a Renaissance town. With respect to the free royal mining town of Kremnica, almost no musical sources have survived from the Renaissance period. Nevertheless, archival materials in the form of ledgers, minutes of the meetings of the municipal council, wills, letters, and various other documents impart pieces of knowledge about music events in this town. These sources provide information about prominent figures in music, i.e. the cantor, singers, the organist, and trumpeters, and even about the repertoire they performed and the events in the town during which they sang and played. Detailed research of the sources from Kremnica was carried out more than forty years ago by the prominent Slovak musicologist Ernest Zavarský. The polyphonic fragments recently discovered in Kremnica enable us to supplement the information about the repertoire performed in the town and update the research results at least partially. Moreover, the identification of the fragments reveals that such research is of importance not only for the musical history of the town and its region but also for entire Central Europe.

Keywords

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KREMNICA; MUSICAL CULTURE; RENAISSANCE; CENTRAL EUROPE

• Publisher: Institute of Musicology, Slovak Academy of Sciences; VEDA, Publishing House of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Musicologica Slovaca
• Year: 2024
• Volume: 15 (41)
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 147 – 165

Contributors

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Studeničová Hana

• Ústav hudobnej vedy SAV, v. v. i., Dúbravská cesta 9, 841 04 Bratislava 4, Slovak Republic

• https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7739-2995

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/musicoslov.2024.2.2