Researches in the History of Music in Slovenia

As a continuation of the previous this programme will not need preparatory meetings. The work, coordinated by the programme leader, is divided(within the WPs) between various specialists pursuing different research questions and implementing different methods (see methodology above). Since the state of research and the approach is different for each topic, the team will continue the previous work or else start working on new topics. However, the work will be pursued concurrently in all WPs.

The importance of WP1 and some areas of WP3 might be prioritised in the first years but most of their work will be finished by 2025. Other WPs contain topics intended for shorter case-studies as well as research over a longer period of time. For some larger newly started topics, a continuation in the next programme research period is foreseen.

General activities and results (in the blue fields below) will be provided each year. Some more specialised publications are marked in orange. The publication of journal articles, monograph chapters and conference papers by the team members will occur every year, possibly in larger quantities during the second half of the programme period. Major new monographs are planned mainly for the years 2025–2027. Platforms for the Digital Humanities will be upgraded and made accessible from 2023. With regard to the wider dissemination of research results, the organisation of the concerts (HC), publications for a non-scholarly readership, workshops, public lectures etc. will cover the whole running period of the programme.

The outputs of the P6-0004 research programme are top-level scientific achievements available in open access, as well as events and publications aimed at the general public and dedicated to the popularisation of science.

As already mentioned above, the Institute of Musicology regularly publishes the internationally renowned musicological journal De musica disserenda (selected thematic issues are dedicated to particular programme topics) and the bilingual series of critical music editions Monumenta artis musicae Sloveniae. The latter aims to bring scholarly research of musical sources to the widest possible circle of researchers and performers, particularly through the freely accessible online editions of the newest research and earlier popular issues. Digital editions of musicological monographs are also being published occasionally, for example as part of the collection Slovenska glasbena dediščina (Slovenian Musical Heritage) and its emerging sub-collection Viri za zgodovino glasbe na Slovenskem (Sources for the History of Music in the Slovenian Lands), as well as individual musicological monographs.

In addition to the above, three important monographs have been published during the current programme period, covering various subject areas and historical periods, each contributing in its own way to the creation of knowledge and awareness of the cultural heritage of this area. These are a multi-author monograph on the first Bishop of Vienna, Georg Slatkonja, an important figure in the musical life of his time and region (Jurij Slatkonja (1456–1522): Od Kranjske do Dunaja (Georg Slatkonja (1456–1522): From Carniola to Vienna), ed. Metoda Kokole and Lilijana Žnidaršič Golec), and two works dealing with music, its creators and contexts in the long 19th century. These are the comprehensive monograph by Marko Motnik, Glasbena pot Sophie Linhart: Po sledeh družine Antona Tomaža Linharta (Musical Path of Sophie Linhart: In the Footsteps of the Anton Tomaž Linhart’s Family), and Gregor Pompe’s broadly conceived book Opera in glasbena drama v 19. stoletju (Opera and Musical Drama in the 19th Century) which places opera in the Slovenian Lands of the time in a broader context. Also worthy of mention are the scholarly critical editions of Renaissance sacred music connected with the Slovenian Lands within the Monumenta artis musicae Sloveniae series: Simone Gatto, Tri maše / Three Masses (Selected Works from the Hren Choirbooks 3, MAMS 64, ed. Klemen Grabnar) and Iacobus Handl Gallus, Šest osemglasnih motetov / Six Eight-part Motets (MAMS 65, ed. Marko Motnik).

Within the P6-0004 programme, scholars regularly publish the results of their research in the form of scientific papers and present them at prestigious international conferences. The most notable individual papers published during this programme period have significantly expanded the field of musicology in several areas and within all programme work packages, and have also contributed to new insights in related disciplines. Two special thematic issues of the journal De musica disserenda have been published on the basis of thematically connected studies directly related to the programme: Priseljeni glasbeniki na Slovenskem v dolgem 19. stoletju / Foreign Musicians in the Slovene Lands during the Long Nineteenth Century (XVIII/1–2, 2022) and Kontrafakture posvetne glasbe v cerkvenih arhivih / Secular Music Contrafacta in the Church Archives of Slovenian Styria (XIX/1, 2023). Individual new research dealing with the chant heritage of the Carthusians, Carthusian Nuns, Dominican Nuns, Franciscans and important religious centres has made a significant contribution to our knowledge of liturgical chant and its traditions in Slovenia from the Middle Ages to the end of the 18th century. New insights have been gained in the field of Renaissance sacred liturgical music and repertoire and composers of opera music in the 18th and 19th centuries. New research on male and female musicians and various instrumental genres of the 19th century has also been published. The latter research, which drew significant attention to female musicians and their careers that had often been overlooked until now, also formed the basis for the successful international conference Preseganje tradicionalnih vlog: Glasbenice na poti v umetniško svobodo / Transcending Traditional Roles: Female Musicians on the Path to Artistic Freedom which was organised as part of the programme. With the constantly growing MUSIQUM database, which is open to the general public and includes information relevant primarily to research into 19th-century music, the research programme is also developing in the direction of digital humanities.

The members of the research programme strive to make the research results available (through publications in various non-scholarly journals, educational materials, concert programme notes, etc.) to the broadest possible audience. We regularly organise educational workshops for professional and amateur musicians, musicology and music students, and the wider interested public. One such event was a special international audience-engagement workshop with Od zapisa do odra / From Scribe to Stage which was co-organised with the Radovljica Festival and the COST EarlyMuse project.

As part of the research programme, we also co-organise a series of top-class early music concerts Harmonia concertans: Stara glasba na Novem trgu (Early Music at the New Square). Through it, we aim to bring the public closer to what we are researching within the research programme through sound and concert-related activities, and to highlight the connections between the rich musical heritage of this area and other European cultural environments. In recent seasons, several concerts have been dedicated entirely to music from our research programme, such as concerts featuring liturgical music by the Dominican Nuns of Radlje, opera arias from the collections of the Counts of Attems, and Baroque vocal and instrumental works from the collection of the Franciscans of Novo Mesto. We have also collaborated intensively with other organisers, such as the Radovljica Festival and Imago Sloveniae, in preparing music and providing musicological advice for concerts featuring works from Hren’s choirbooks and the Baroque cantus fractus repertoire of the Franciscans of Koper.

The programme group’s scientific and other achievements and outputs are listed in the Collected Bibliography.