Poznámky k typológii sakrálnej hudby (Od piesní ľudu k figurálnej hudbe)
Notes on the Typology of Sacred Music (from Folk Hymns to Figural Music)

Summary/Abstract: In researching the culture of sacred music (of the Roman Catholic Church, the major denomination) during the period of classicism on the territory of present-day Slovakia, we have reached a new stage of knowledge, enabling us by novel means to reassess the received image of how that culture was nurtured in our land. The new findings concern places where the musical art was cultivated (which can now be connected in the form of a musical network), musicians and musical families, the instrumentarium (organs and other instruments), and the repertoire. The creation of a musical network has been made possible by an exceptionally rich new factography with a powerful argumentative force, and also by a new typology based on criteria of a supremely musical nature (and secondarily, of a universal cultural nature). The decisive criterion was the character and level of performance practice, as applied in the given period.

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