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Metoda Kokole, PhD

ORCID id: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8340-1082

  • PhD in Musicology
  • MA of French language and literature
  • Assistant Professor
  • General editor of the music series Monumenta artis musicæ Sloveniæ & Supplementa
  • Member of the editorial board of the journal De musica disserenda
  • Member of the RISM Working group of Slovenia
  • Member of the RILM National Committee of Slovenia
  • General editor of the e-series Slovenska glasbena dediščina [Slovenian Music Heritage]
  • Member of the programme committee of early music concerts Harmonia concertans – Stara glasba na novem trgu

 

+386(0)14706196

metoda.kokole@zrc-sazu.si



Research area: Baroque music of the Slovenian lands, early Baroque sacred monody, Italian opera and music migrations in the period from the late sixteenth to the early nineteenth century, musical repertoire of the littoral towns of Slovenia to the nineteenth century, music works of I. Posch and G. Puliti, music iconography.

Research Interests: The musical heritage of Slovenia from the late sixteenth to the early nineteenth centuries. She has specialized in the dissemination of Italian music in the ex-Inner-Austrian lands (which are today regions of Slovenia and Austria) and is working on the documents concerning Italian operatic productions in Ljubljana in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and mobility of singers, impresarios etc. from Italy through the Slovenian lands towards Austria and Germany.

Other Engagements: Since her engagement at the Scientific Research Centre in 1992 she was a member or a chair of a number of expert committees:
Member of the Slovenian Musicological Society (from 1992), President of the Coordination committee of the Historical Seminar of the Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (1998–2010), Member of the Scientific Committee of the Insitute of Musicology (since 2000), Chair of the National Committee of Slovenia for RILM (from 2003), responsible for the National Committee of Slovenia for RISM (from 2004), member of the Scientific Committee of the Scientific Research Centre (2004–2008), member of the editorial board of the musicological journal De musica disserenda (from 2005), Vice-President (from 2007) and President (from 2013) of the Slovenian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, general editor of the music series Monumenta artis musicae Sloveniae (from 2008) and member of the Scientific Council for the Humanities of the Slovenian Research Agency (2011–2016). She was a project leader of five national research projects (2000–2012) and principal investigator of the HERA MusMig project (2013–2016). Since 2018 she is the leader of the national research programme Researches in the History of Music in Slovenia (ARRS, P6-0004).

French Governmental Grant, University of Udine, Gemona (July–August 2002)
European Science Foundation Grant, Oxford University (2000)
French Governmental Grant, Parie and Versailles (September 1995)
TEMPUS Moblity, Royal Holloway College University of London (May–July 1994)
The ZRC "Golden Sign" Award (2001)
Dr Franc Munda Grant for Students in the Republic of Slovenia (academic year 1991/92)

Monographs & critical editions:

  • Monumenta artis musicae Sloveniae, vol. 60: Giuseppe Arena: Achille in Sciro (1738). Arije Ahila in Dejdameje = Arias for Achilles and Deidamia. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, ZRC SAZU, 2016.  http://bit.ly/32R5dAf
  • Monumenta artis musicae Sloveniae, vol. 57: Glasba v Kopru v 17. stoletju = Music in seventeenth-century Koper. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, ZRC SAZU, 2012. http://bit.ly/2uRZo9e
  • Monumenta artis musicae Sloveniae, vols. 40 & 42: Gabriello Puliti: Sacri concentus, Pungenti dardi spirituali, Lilila convallium, Sacri accenti. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, ZRC SAZU, 2001–2003. http://bit.ly/3cq4WbZ
  • Monumenta artis musicae Sloveniae, vols. 30, 31, 35: Isaac Posch, Musicalische Ehrenfreudt, Musicalische Tafelfreudt, Harmonia concertans [=opera omnia]. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, ZRC SAZU, 1996–2001. http://bit.ly/39kF2nU
  • Isaac Posch “diditus Eois Hesperiisque plagis – praised in the lands of Dawn and Sunset”. Frankfurt am Main: P. Lang, 2009. https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/51316

 

5 most relevant articles/chapters in the last 5 years (2018–2023):

  • Užaljena gospa Artemizija ali Kristus nam je danes rojen: celjske kontrafakture operne arije Giuseppa Gazzanige. De musica disserenda IXI/2 (2023), 37-58.  DOI: https://doi.org/10.3986/dmd19.1.02
  • The Graz 1740 pasticcio Amor, odio e pentimento. A special case or Mingottis's common practice?. In: Operatic pasticcios in 18th-Century Europe. Contexts, materials and aesthetics, ed. by Berthold Over, Gesa zur Nieden (Mainz Historical Cultural Sciences, 45), 507–525. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2021. doi: 10.14361/9783839448854-024 
  • The Ljubljana singer and virtuoso pianist Francesco Pollini and the two key women of his youth. In: Glazba, migracije i europska kultura: svečani zbornik za Vjeru Katalinić = Music, migration and European culture : essays in honour of Vjera Katalinić, ed. by Ivana Cavallini, Jolanta Guzy-Pasiakowa, Harry White (Muzikološki zbornici, 22), 501–518. Zagreb: Hrvatsko muzikološko društvo, 2020. https://bit.ly/35pMj93.
  • Plesi za koroške in kranjske veljake ob izbruhu tridesetletne vojne. Isaac Posch in njegovo Veselo glasbeno slavje (1618). In: Tridesetletna vojna in Slovenci. Evropski konflikt in slovenski prostor v prvi polovici 17. stoletja, ur. KOČEVAR, Vanja (ed.), CERKOVNIK, Gašper. Anja Kočevar in Gašper Cerkovnik, 451–472. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, ZRC SAZU, 2020. https://doi.org/10.3986/9789610504979
  • Andrea Bernasconi's earliest operatic music on its way north of the Alps. Musicologica Brunensia, 53 Suppl. (2018): 207–226 (doi: 10.5817/MB2018-S-14.) http://bit.ly/2TBhR2b

5 most relevant earlier articles/chapters:

  • Migrations of music repertoire. The Attems music collection from around 1744. In: Musicians' mobilities and music migrations in early modern Europe. Biographical patterns and cultural exchanges, ed. by Gesa zur Nieden and Berthold Over (Mainzer Historische Kulturwissenschaften, 33), 341-377. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2016.
  • Echoes of Giovanni Gabrieli’s style in the territories between Koper and Graz in the first quarter of the seventeenth century. In: Giovanni Gabrieli. Transmission and reception of a Venetian musical tradition, ed. by Rodolfo Baroncini, David Bryant and Luigi Collarile (Venetian music studies, 1), 51-67. Turnhout: Brepols, 2016.
  • Glasbenoteoretični in pedagoški priročniki iz 'dolgega' 18. stoletja na Slovenskem [Music textbooks and instruction manuals of the 'long' eighteen century in Slovenia]. Muzikološki zbornik 47/1 (2011): 49–74. http://bit.ly/2Ikpapv
  • Sacred music in Capo d'Istria in the 17th century. In: Barocco padano 4. Atti del XII Convegno internazionale sulla musica italiana nei secoli XVII-XVIII, Brescia, 14-16 Iuglio 2003, ed.by Alberto Colzani, Andrea LUPPI and Maurizio Padoan (Contributi musicologici del Centro Ricerche dell'A.M.I.S., 16), 225-261. Como: A.M.I.S. [i. e.] Antiquae musicae Italicae studiosi, 2006.
  • Who was Antonio Tarsia and from whom did he learn how to compose?. In: Barocco padano 7. Atti del XV Convegno internazionale sulla musica italiana nei secoli XVII-XVIII, Milano, 14-16 luglio 2009, ed.by Alberto Colzani, Andrea LUPPI and Maurizio Padoan (Contributi musicologici del Centro Ricerche dell'A.M.I.S., 19), 413-451. Como: A.M.I.S. [i. e.] Antiquae musicae Italicae studiosi, 2012.
A new ecosystem of early music studies (EarlyMuse) (international project • September 21, 2022 - September 20, 2026)
The mobility of musicians and musical idioms in the Slovene Lands from the 16th until 19th century (fundamental research project • January 1, 2000 - June 30, 2002)
Repertoire analysis of old music manuscripts in Slovenia (fundamental research project • July 1, 1998 - June 30, 2003)
Old traditions in new vestments: Musical and textual reworkings in the performing practices of liturgical music (fundamental research project • July 1, 2019 - June 30, 2023)
Musical sources of the 16th to the 18th centuries with special attention to the archives in the Slovenian region of Primorska (fundamental research project • July 1, 2001 - June 30, 2004)
The music of religious orders on the Slovenian territory from the 16th century to their abolition (fundamental research project • January 1, 2003 - December 31, 2005)
Ecclesiastical music funds of the Slovenian coastal towns (fundamental research project • July 1, 2007 - June 30, 2010)
Aesthetics behind the concert life of Ljubljana in the 19th century: 1794-1872 (fundamental research project • May 1, 2009 - April 30, 2012)
Didactic manuals and music education in the 18th century (fundamental research project • May 1, 2009 - April 30, 2012)
Slovenian musical works after 1918 (fundamental research project • July 1, 2011 - June 30, 2014)
Researches in the history of music in Slovenia (research programme • January 1, 2009 - December 31, 2014)
Music migrations in the early modern age: the meeting of the European East, West and South (September 1, 2013 - August 31, 2016)

Dr Metoda Kokole graduated in 1990 at the University of Ljubljana in musicology and French language with literature. In late 1998 she completed her PhD at the University of Ljubljana with a dissertation on the early Baroque composer Isaac Posch. From 1992 she has been employed as a researcher at the Institute of Musicology. In 1994 she won a research grant for a three-month period in London (Royal Holloway College) and in 1995 for a month research in Paris (Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles). In January 2001 she was awarded a special prize, the Golden Sign of the ZRC (Scientific Research Centre, Ljubljana), for outstanding research achievements. Since 2003 she has been collaborating as assistant professor at the Universities of Ljubljana and Nova Gorica (between 2014 and 2021 the Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU). From 1999 to 2010 she led the series of Historical seminar at the ZRC SAZU, between 2000 and 2022 she was member of the Scientific Council of the Institute of Musicology and between 2004 and 2022 Head of the Institute.